Why is Pomona College so highly rated??

DRab
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:02:18 +0000

I honestly don’t think research (even for undergrads) is a reason Pomona is so highly rated, but certainly it’s there to many of the great students (why I think it is so highly rated) with the great professors (another reason why I think it’s so highly rated). You could also take endowment per student into account. Perhaps you’re right, that to the average undergraduate, more research opportunities will be available at a place such as Pomona than a place such as Berkeley. If you consider a school like Caltech, another research university, you’ll find research much easier than at even Pomona, it seems, but for the top handful of LACs and the top Berkeley-like research schools, I imagine you’re correct (although some schools raise and set aside tons of money for undergrad research, such as Penn and Stanford).