Advice for Admitted Students – Page 5

Why Did I Choose Pomona?

Posted on January 2, 2020September 21, 2022 by Myles Ashitey

By Myles Ashitey ‘22 Coming from a small boarding school in southeastern Pennsylvania, I didn’t want to stray too far from my comfort zone when choosing a college. Also high on my list of importance was ensuring that my college education was affordable to me. As it turned out, Pomona was one of the only schools I applied to that offered me a viable financial aid package, whi...

Combining Queer Theory and Pipetting Bacterial Cultures

Posted on November 20, 2019September 21, 2022 by Calder Hollond

My summer internship with Planned Parenthood Great Plains, working in the reproductive justice sector

By Calder Hollond ‘21 When I came to Pomona, I thought I was going to be an English major. That’s what I had told all my family and friends before I left home, what I told all my new friends at Pomona during the initial “What are you planning on majoring in?” small talk, and what I made sure to enroll in during course registration. What I hadn’t planned on was that after the...

The Beautiful Flexibility of a Small(ish) School

Posted on November 13, 2019September 21, 2022 by Chris Meng

By Chris Meng ‘23 Pomona College has all the amazing perks of a small school without sacrificing the overwhelming variety of resources of a bigger college. If it weren’t for the flexibility and spirit of exploration built into the values of Pomona, I wouldn’t be here today as a first-year student. Let me tell you about my winding path to Pomona. To begin, I wasn’t accepte...

A Letter for Incoming Black Students, from a Black Student

Posted on September 3, 2019September 21, 2022 by Ebere Amadi

By Ebere Amadi '22 It was a 47-minute car ride from my house to Pomona College on Move-In Day, August 25th, 2018. I drove down the 60 freeway with a car full of family, luggage, and Frank Ocean’s nostalgic tunes. As the familiar melodies of Ivy and Nights boomed through my speakers, I almost cried as Frank beautifully sang “we’ll never be those kids again” because it was tru...

Failure at Pomona

Posted on June 12, 2019September 21, 2022 by Danny DeBare

By Danny DeBare ‘22 Failure is both the most and least talked about phenomenon at Pomona. Students at Pomona throw it into casual conversations: “Oh my gosh, I totally just failed that midterm!” Yet this over-exaggerated comment–dare I say joke–almost rarely equates to a D or F grade. On the other hand, when not getting cast in theater productions, or not receiving specifi...

Good Weather Is a Good Basis for Making Your College Decision

Posted on May 8, 2019September 21, 2022 by Sarah Binau

By Sarah Binau '19 My personal weather-related nightmare: feeling my snot freeze into icy boogers inside my nose in the 7 a.m. darkness as I unsuccessfully scrape an inch of ice from the windshield of the car with my icicle fingers, exhaust fumes adding to the gray sky’s clouds, wondering how far away June is. Except this isn’t a nightmare; it was my reality growing up in th...

“You Can Truly Reinvent Yourself in College”

Posted on April 3, 2019September 21, 2022 by Daphne Chapline

By Daphne Chapline ‘22 While visiting other colleges, I was astonished to hear that, in many places, you need to know your major as soon as you apply, and students find it extremely difficult to switch majors once they have declared. As a young person, I find it scary to think that at such a formative time in our development, we have to make a (somewhat) pivotal decision abo...

Tips About Financial Aid

Posted on March 27, 2019September 21, 2022 by Kensi Martinez

By Kensi Martinez ‘21 Before coming to Pomona, I attended a highly competitive public high school in Los Angeles, where I learned to strive for top grades. Once I started classes at Pomona though, I was surprised to discover that a collaborative learning process—working together on class projects and studying with my classmates—was the norm here. Having gone through the p...

On Being Part of an Underrepresented Group at Pomona

Posted on March 21, 2019September 21, 2022 by Daniel Garcia

FLi at 1vy-G, the inter-Ivy, First-Gen Conference

By Daniel Garcia ’21 On campus, I work for Dean Townes, the Associate Dean for Student Mentoring and Leadership, who oversees all of Pomona’s mentoring programs. We have 10 mentoring programs at Pomona that provide a current student mentor to first-year students from similar backgrounds. While the mentor programs are almost entirely student-run and organized, the team under ...

How Pomona Shot to the Top of My List

Posted on March 15, 2019September 21, 2022 by Libby Rose

By Libby Rose ‘19 Let’s start from the beginning. During my college application process, I knew I wanted a small liberal arts college in southern California. The Claremont Colleges were an obvious option. Everything I had researched about Pomona during my junior year of high school seemed fantastic. But it was during the summer before my senior year that Pomona really began ...