Pomona College

Pomona College is a small private residential liberal arts college in Claremont, California, located 47 miles east of Los Angeles. It was founded in 1887 in Pomona, California and moved to Claremont in 1889 on the site of a donated hotel. In 1894 at the time of Pomona's first graduating class, there were 47 students enrolled. Current enrollment (as of 2003) is approximately 1,500.

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Liberal arts college - Claremont, California - Pomona, California - 2003

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It is the founding member of a local consortium of colleges, the Claremont Colleges. The Claremont colleges try to deliver the attention of a small college, with the resources of a large university (shared by the consortium).

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It is a top-five liberal arts college, as rated by U.S. News and World Report. It has also been consistently ranked as having the nation's happiest students, according to Princeton Review.

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Admissions to Pomona is highly selective. Of the students applying to the Class of 2009, fewer than one in five were admitted.

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The price of a Pomona education is comparable to the cost at other liberal arts schools. In 2005, a year of tuition, room, board and textbooks cost about $41,000.

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There are a few local fraternities (one of which is co-ed), and no national fraternities. Rather than a house, the fraternities used to have cabins, but the last one burned down in a forest fire in 2003. Most fraternities date from the early days of the college.

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There are several newspapers operated at the consortium, including The Collage and The Student Life, which is the oldest college newspaper in southern California.

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