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Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any national liberal arts college in the U.S. as of 2021. [294] The college admitted 6.8% of applicants for the 2023 entering class, [214] 49.8% of whom chose to enroll. [214] The number of transfer applicants admitted has varied by year; in 2023, Pomona admitted 34 of 474 applicants (7.2%). [220]
An exterior view of Pomona College in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) [20] and Holmes Hall (left) [21] Before the idea of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona College was founded in 1887. [22] Pomona began after a group of congregationalists envisioned a "New England-type" college on the West Coast.
The College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona is among the most selective engineering colleges in the nation. For fall 2018, the college admitted 45.3 percent of its total freshmen applicants who held an average unweighted GPA of 3.74 (out of 4.00) and SATs of 1249 (out of 1600). [16]
The campus office of public affairs recognizes two official names for the university: "California State Polytechnic University, Pomona" and "Cal Poly Pomona". [43] However, "Cal Poly" has also been used to refer to Cal Poly at Pomona, as both itself and California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California were one institution spanning two locations from 1938 to 1966. [44]
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [232] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
For the class entering Fall 2019, 15,366 freshmen were accepted out of 54,072 applicants, a 28.4% acceptance rate, and 4,613 enrolled. Fall 2019 entering students had an average GPA of 3.99; the middle 50% range of SAT scores was 620–700 for reading and writing, and 620–740 for math, while the ACT Composite range was 26–32. [ 35 ]
By 2007 the department's acceptance rate was down to 9 percent, or 225 out of 2,551 applicants, [11] of which 100 enrolled. Due to the design studio based structure of the program, the student to faculty ratio is a relatively low 17 to 1. [ 12 ]
Williams College was ranked first both in 2010 and 2011, and Princeton returned to the top spot in 2012. [3] [4] [5] In 2013 and 2016, Stanford University occupied the No. 1 spot, with elite liberal arts schools Williams College and Pomona College topping the rankings in the intervening years.