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Pomona College
Pomona College, founded in 1887, is consistently ranked among the very best liberal arts colleges in the country, and its small size — fewer than 1,700 undergraduates — lets it maintain student-faculty ratios and personal-attention teaching that large research universities, however prestigious, generally can't replicate. The college anchors the Claremont Colleges consortium, a group of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions sharing adjacent campuses in Claremont, giving Pomona students access to the course catalog, libraries, and social life of a much larger university while keeping each individual college's enrollment small and tightly knit. Pomona's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college in the country, funding need-blind admission and full-need financial aid policies that let the school recruit talented students regardless of their ability to pay — a commitment relatively few private colleges, liberal arts or otherwise, can financially sustain. The college's combination of extremely low acceptance rates, a small and deeply resourced campus, and access to the broader Claremont Colleges' academic offerings has made it the benchmark against which other elite liberal arts colleges on the West Coast are generally measured.
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UCLA
UCLA has grown from a small teacher's college founded in 1919 into one of the largest and most selective research universities in the country, now receiving well over 100,000 undergraduate applications a year, among the highest application volumes of any university in the United States. The school's athletic program has won more NCAA championships than nearly any other university, and its men's basketball program's run under coach John Wooden in the 1960s and '70s — 10 NCAA titles in 12 years, including a stretch of seven straight — remains one of the most dominant runs by any team in any American college sport. UCLA's film school and its location in Los Angeles have made it one of the primary academic pipelines into the entertainment industry, producing a long list of prominent directors, screenwriters, and studio executives, giving the university a direct institutional connection to Hollywood that few other schools can claim. As part of the University of California system, UCLA combines a large, comprehensive research university's breadth — strong programs across medicine, engineering, business, and the arts — with in-state tuition well below comparable private universities, a combination that's made it one of the most heavily applied-to schools in the country.
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