OpenFieldPomona College · Claremont, California, United States
Pomona College is one of the world's most prestigious undergraduate liberal arts colleges and the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium in Claremont, California. Renowned for extraordinary academic rigor, need-blind admissions with 100% demonstrated need met with zero loans, high medical/law school placement, and pioneering student-faculty research.
Pomona spans a 140-acre campus with access to the combined resources of the Claremont Colleges (7 institutions sharing libraries, labs, and cross-registration). It features the Seeley G. Mudd Science Center, the Benton Museum of Art, and the Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity ('The Hive').
Admissions are highly selective with an acceptance rate below 7%. Pomona evaluates high school curriculum rigor, standardized test scores (test-optional), personal essays, extracurricular impact, and recommendations. Pomona meets 100% of demonstrated financial need with grants rather than loans for all domestic and international admitted students.
Elite undergraduate computer science curriculum emphasizing algorithm design, machine learning, theory of computation, natural language processing, and systems software, with cross-registration at Harvey Mudd College.
Intensive laboratory investigation in gene editing, CRISPR molecular mechanisms, developmental genetics, and structural biochemistry with extensive undergraduate research access.
Interdisciplinary honors curriculum integrating moral philosophy, constitutional political theory, microeconomic modeling, and public policy decision-making.
Rigorous undergraduate training in quantum mechanics, general relativity, observational cosmology, and radio astronomy utilizing the Brackett Observatory and Table Mountain Observatory.
Interdisciplinary program examining Southern California water rights, urban environmental justice, climate policy, and conservation biology in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Ten-week full-time summer research fellowship working one-on-one with Pomona faculty on peer-reviewed investigations in genomics, quantum optics, or neurobiology.
President & Professor of English and Neuroscience
Office of the President
Dr. Starr is a neuroaesthetics pioneer and MacArthur 'Genius' Fellow whose research uses fMRI neuroimaging to examine how the human brain processes beauty, poet...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Chemistry and Biology
Department of Chemistry
Dr. Haushalter's research investigates DNA repair enzymes, base excision repair pathways, and community-engaged science education combating infectious diseases....
View researcher profile ↗Associate Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Dr. Yen investigates network science, graph neural networks, complex adaptive biological systems, and scalable algorithmic analysis of massive interconnected da...
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