What’s the deal with Amherst?

[Anonymous]

That's what I love about schools like Amherst (even though I'm not actually a huge Amherst fan). It is the ultimate case of IYKYK. Keep out the ignorant riffraff like the OP. I don't want my kid going to school with people like that anyway.

I know this makes me sound like a snob. I don't care. A big part of choosing a school is choosing a culture and the people who will be your lifelong friends. I am fully supportive of schools having diversity (within reason - not a huge DEI fan) of race, gender, religion, geographic background, and politics, as long as those people are open to listening respectfully to others and exercising critical thinking skills. Those who can't be like that, stay away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, did Amherst reject your child?

Trash response when admissions season has just started. Get for real. It isn’t a school immune to criticism.

If you spew garbage, expect garbage in response.

Is your tantrum over now? It’s getting in the way of the thread.

And what was the point of the thread exactly? To trash a respected school with happy students because it’s not to your taste?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, did Amherst reject your child?

Trash response when admissions season has just started. Get for real. It isn’t a school immune to criticism.

If you spew garbage, expect garbage in response.

Is your tantrum over now? It’s getting in the way of the thread.

What thread? Who cares about this meaningless drivel?

then get off it. No one is making you comment here?

I'm sorry for thinking that this forum should have some standards for its discussion.

[Anonymous]

OP - your "question" sounds disingenuous. It sounds more like you just want to bash the school. Campus is 1000 acres and includes wildlife sanctuary and trails. It even has 2 museums and is quite nice. Great academics and nice kids overall. Town is not very large but a good number of restaurants for students being that UMass is also there. Lots of shopping in nearby towns such as Trader Joes, Dicks Sporting, Urban Outfitters, lots of farmers markets, etc. The school's isn't for everyone but it's a bit weird and unseemly to make a post just to completely insult a particular school. Perhaps there is an ulterior motive or an axe to grind.

[Anonymous]

It has one of the best premed programs, with very high med school admission rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, did Amherst reject your child?

Trash response when admissions season has just started. Get for real. It isn’t a school immune to criticism.

If you spew garbage, expect garbage in response.

Is your tantrum over now? It’s getting in the way of the thread.

And what was the point of the thread exactly? To trash a respected school with happy students because it’s not to your taste?

Is your tantrum over now? It’s getting in the way of the thread.

[Anonymous]

Do you have nothing better to do than bash colleges online? Who does this help?

[Anonymous]

Amherst is pretty mediocre compared to its competition, but there's no other school in New England rivaling it.

[Anonymous]

OP - time to get off your (anonymous) soapbox and get back to reality. And don't forget to take your meds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst is pretty mediocre compared to its competition, but there's no other school in New England rivaling it.

Williams?? (And I think both Williams and Amherst are great)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst is pretty mediocre compared to its competition, but there's no other school in New England rivaling it.

Williams?? (And I think both Williams and Amherst are great)

Just a different kind of student. Williams is isolated, limited in opportunities, and elitist. Amherst is nothing like williams in those regards. Amherst is competing with the lower ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It has one of the best premed programs, with very high med school admission rates.

Law school too. Feed right into Yale and Harvard. Also really good placement into various PhD programs.

I went there and have hired several grads—they are always great. Really smart, hard working, genuinely nice. And several of my classmates went back to be professors.

It’s a great town and I loved the campus. My kid won’t ever get in but I’m encouraging them to look at umass Amherst because I love the area so much.

Some kids do take classes in the 5 colleges but many don’t because Amherst plainly has the best classes of the 5. But I often got specialty hard to find books from the other libraries and did take one very specialized seminar at mt H.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It has one of the best premed programs, with very high med school admission rates.

Law school too. Feed right into Yale and Harvard. Also really good placement into various PhD programs.

I went there and have hired several grads—they are always great. Really smart, hard working, genuinely nice. And several of my classmates went back to be professors.

It’s a great town and I loved the campus. My kid won’t ever get in but I’m encouraging them to look at umass Amherst because I love the area so much.

Some kids do take classes in the 5 colleges but many don’t because Amherst plainly has the best classes of the 5. But I often got specialty hard to find books from the other libraries and did take one very specialized seminar at mt H.

I don't see how that can be true when it has a small percent of courses compared to Umass and has no graduate coursework. Sounds like a copout.

[Anonymous]

Amherst is the BOMB! You are just a hater OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst is pretty mediocre compared to its competition, but there's no other school in New England rivaling it.

So it’s average compared to the 20 most selective schools in the country, huh? Sick burn if true, Patrice.