| Location: | Southwest |
| Setting: | Large Town Setting |
| Type: | Private |
| Size: | Small (Under 2,000 Undergrad) |
Pomona College is a highly selective private residential liberal arts college located 33 miles (53 km) east of downtown Los Angeles in Claremont, California. It has ranked in the top ten of liberal arts colleges nationally according to the US News and World Report rankings since their inception. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California, by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a donated hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.
The founding member of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona is a non-sectarian, coeducational school. Its founders strove to create "a college of the New England type;" but better. In order to reach this goal, the board of trustees included graduates of Williams, Dartmouth, Colby and Yale. Beginning in 1925, the Claremont Colleges, which have grown to include five total undergraduate and two graduate institutions, have provided Pomona's student body with the resources of a larger university while preserving the closeness of a small college.
Pomona College was established as a coeducational institution on October 14, 1887. The group wanted to create a college in the same mold as small New England institutions. The College was originally formed in Pomona; classes first began in a rented house on September 12, 1888. The next year, the school was moved to Claremont, at the site of an unfinished hotel. This building would eventually become Sumner Hall, location of the Admissions and the Office of Campus Life. The name – Pomona College – remained after the relocation. The College’s first graduating class consisted of ten members in 1894.
Its founders’ values led to the College’s belief in educational equity, and in 1904 graduated Winston Dickson, one of the first African-American students in history to attend Harvard Law School. Like other Congregationalist-founded colleges such as Harvard, Dartmouth, Middlebury and Bowdoin, Pomona was given its own governing board, ensuring its independence. The board of trustees was originally composed of graduates of Williams, Dartmouth, Colby and Yale, among others, to help create "a college of the New England type."
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| Percent of Students International: | 2% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 90% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | Yes |
| Member of: | NAA, NCAA |
| Sports Include: |
Football (Southern California Intercoll Ath Conf) Basketball (Southern California Intercoll Ath Conf) Baseball (Southern California Intercoll Ath Conf) Track (Southern California Intercoll Ath Conf) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 29,923 | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 29,650 | ||
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 273 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 6,298 | 10% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 8,357 | 7% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 20,125 | 50% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 2,847 | 46% | |
Any Aid: |
52% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 19% (Most Selective) |
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| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 93% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 690, Math: 690 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 770, Math: 760 |
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| % of Students Submitting ACT Scores: | 26% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Composite: 29, Verbal: 29, Math: 29 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Composite: 34, Verbal: 34, Math: 34 |
| Application Fee: | $ 60.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Required |
| High School GPA: | Required |
| High School Rank: | Required |
| High School Record: | Required |
| Recommendations: | Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
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Question:
college essay?
im trying to find the claremont pomona college's admission essay topic but i hav a hard time finding it....
could anybody help me cause i need to plan the essay soon so i could finish my essays
thank you so much
thank u for that information but can someone put the topics on so i could see it cause im alittle confused
srry
12 months ago
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I am assuming you mean Pomona College, one of the Claremont schools?
Pomona wants its applicants to submit the common application as well as a Pomona supplement. You must complete a Common Application essay; the Pomona supplement essay is optional, but they STRONGLY recommend you write one.
The essay topics for the supplement are available on the application, which you can find here. (Scroll down towards the bottom of the page for links to the applications):
http://pomona.edu/adwr/admissions/Applying/Information.shtml
The Common Application has a variety of essay topics to choose from.
https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx
Good luck.
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I'm really interested in going to Pomona for college (if I can even get in... I know they're very selective), and I was just wondering if anybody out here went there? Or knows somebody that did? I'm interested in finding out about the vibe of the school and the city, what it took to get in, blah blah... Thanks!
17 months ago
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I know a few people who went to Pomona and I've visited the Claremont Colleges a few times. The tour guides and my friends at the school are all really smart people who are good at looking at problems or questions from many different angles. The school isn't huge, but it's big enough to support a healthy infrastructure of classes and activities. Plus, it's part of the Claremont Consortium so you have access to classes and resources on the campuses of the other colleges there too.
There are links on their admissions website to articles in college guides and the US News and World Weekly Report, which should give you a better idea of the facts and figures.
As far as the surrounding city is, it's fantastic. They have a website: http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/ You are also a short train ride away from Los Angeles (I think it's an hour or two) so you can go into the city for a day or evening, which is great.
If you decide to go there, be prepared to be obsessed with the number 47! (My 7th grade science teacher was a Pomona grad, and I always won the "what number am I thinking of" because it was always 47...) Good luck!
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I will probably be moving there in January and I cant seem to find one except for one college that seems a little too prestigious for it be a jr. college. lol. I would really appreciate anyones help who lives near there or knows for sure of the jr. college name. Thanks.
26 months ago
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Pomona College is not a community college, rather a regular 4-year, which is reportedly very hard to get into. Try Mt. San Antonio College, in Pomona/Walnut, there's also San Joaquin Valley College, Chaffey College, and there's a few more around the area.
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