Pomona College acceptance rate and admissions profile

Pomona College is a private college in California that admits about 7% of applicants, which puts it in the most selective range. A rate like this means it admits roughly one in ten applicants or fewer; the bar is less about clearing a single cutoff and more about how your full profile compares to admitted students.

Use this page to see what Pomona College weighs, where it ranks among California schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1540, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

Pomona College signals that it values rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and application essay above the rest of the file. At this level of selectivity, the difference between admits is rarely the transcript alone; essays, recommendations, and a coherent story matter. These ratings come from Pomona College's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Among the 61 California schools we track, Pomona College ranks #3 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like California Institute of Technology (3%) and Stanford University (4%) sit nearby, which makes California a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

If Pomona College is on your list, schools with a similar admit profile are worth a look: Bowdoin College, Colby College, and Swarthmore College. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate and admitted test ranges reflect publicly reported data (U.S. Department of Education / NCES IPEDS / Common Data Sets). Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.