Pomona College Admission Essays

Dr. David Baltimore once said, “A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.” As an aspiring scholar, I am drawn to the intellectual landscape at Pomona College, where teaching…

The day: December 27th, 2007. The time: 6:45 PM. The location: Karachi, Pakistan. There was nothing out of the ordinary on this crisp December day, or so I thought. I did not know that this ordinary day would soon become one of the most important…

Just as the plane landed, I closed The Fountainhead interrupting Ayn Rand’s famous courtroom speech. Everything Rand wrote about, from individualism to selfishness, all made sense. As I stepped foot into the dreary airport, I knew I wasn’t in Scottsdale anymore. Being my first time…

I take a deep breath to steel my nerves. I ponder for a second how ridiculous it is that a small white ball has such a profound affect on me, the man with a long metal club. “The hell with it” I finally think as…