Amherst College COA $92,816 per year

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

Unless you’re an admissions officer at a top graduate program. They like Amherst grads at least as well as Ivy grads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

Unless you’re an admissions officer at a top graduate program. They like Amherst grads at least as well as Ivy grads.

Nope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I make around 200k, but I have a seven figure trust fund. No way we're paying full pay for these schools - it's not worth it even if we can technically afford it. A kid that can get into Amherst could get generous merit aid from LACs ranked in the thirties, maybe even the twenties. We're looking to spend 60k the first year, then pay the yearly increase.

Easier said than done. Most of the top 30 LACs don't give merit aid. And even for the few that do offer merit, a lot of the schools in the 20s and 30s have become significantly more competitive admits over the past few years. PP's kids won't get merit aid unless their stats are well above average for the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Our HHI is $320K. We have two kids, and we are about to retire soon. We cannot afford close to $400K for college for each child. And we get 0 financial aid.“

Roll Tide!

um. no..never. DC#1 going to UMD honors with merit. DC#2 don't know yet but it won't be Alabama.

Look, I wouldn't want to attend Bama and neither of my DCs would look at southern schools, but if I were in the above scenario, then yeah, I might be pushing Roll Tide.

why? There many colleges that don't cost $60K+ other than Bama. I can afford to send DC to a different oos if needed. It certainly won't be Bama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

This is simply not true. The quality of UG education is often far superior. Grad school admissions committees adore LACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

This is simply not true. The quality of UG education is often far superior. Grad school admissions committees adore LACs.

keep thinking that lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

This is simply not true. The quality of UG education is often far superior. Grad school admissions committees adore LACs.

keep thinking that lol

I don’t know that they adore all LACs but they adore Amherst. My fellow students all went to Ivy or similar graduate schools. I see lots of Harvard, Yale, Columbia grad school resumes and Amherst grads are over-represented in these graduate programs. Saying otherwise just betrays your ignorance. There are some exceptions, like CS, and of course they don’t have an engineering school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

This is simply not true. The quality of UG education is often far superior. Grad school admissions committees adore LACs.

keep thinking that lol

I don’t know that they adore all LACs but they adore Amherst. My fellow students all went to Ivy or similar graduate schools. I see lots of Harvard, Yale, Columbia grad school resumes and Amherst grads are over-represented in these graduate programs. Saying otherwise just betrays your ignorance. There are some exceptions, like CS, and of course they don’t have an engineering school.

What field are you in? LACs are a joke for STEM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:[mastodon]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

This is simply not true. The quality of UG education is often far superior. Grad school admissions committees adore LACs.

keep thinking that lol

I don’t know that they adore all LACs but they adore Amherst. My fellow students all went to Ivy or similar graduate schools. I see lots of Harvard, Yale, Columbia grad school resumes and Amherst grads are over-represented in these graduate programs. Saying otherwise just betrays your ignorance. There are some exceptions, like CS, and of course they don’t have an engineering school.

What field are you in? LACs are a joke for STEM.

For engineering but that is not universally true for STEM by any means. Elite LACs have excellent med school admission outcomes, for example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

This is simply not true. The quality of UG education is often far superior. Grad school admissions committees adore LACs.

keep thinking that lol

Let me guess. Engineering, CS or bust for your kids? Typical of people like you to have limited imaginations concerning disciplinary options and cross-disciplinary interests typically fostered at LACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[mastodon]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

+1 third tier

This is simply not true. The quality of UG education is often far superior. Grad school admissions committees adore LACs.

keep thinking that lol

I don’t know that they adore all LACs but they adore Amherst. My fellow students all went to Ivy or similar graduate schools. I see lots of Harvard, Yale, Columbia grad school resumes and Amherst grads are over-represented in these graduate programs. Saying otherwise just betrays your ignorance. There are some exceptions, like CS, and of course they don’t have an engineering school.

What field are you in? LACs are a joke for STEM.

For engineering but that is not universally true for STEM by any means. Elite LACs have excellent med school admission outcomes, for example.

Premed courses are very basic and med schools do not care about major. The biggest weakness at LACs is STEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the focus on Amherst. Every top private costs about this much nowadays. And Amherst is among the best of them.

No LAC is a top school.

Unless you’re an admissions officer at a top graduate program. They like Amherst grads at least as well as Ivy grads.

Nope

you dk what you are talking about

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Our HHI is $320K. We have two kids, and we are about to retire soon. We cannot afford close to $400K for college for each child. And we get 0 financial aid.“

Roll Tide!

um. no..never. DC#1 going to UMD honors with merit. DC#2 don't know yet but it won't be Alabama.

Look, I wouldn't want to attend Bama and neither of my DCs would look at southern schools, but if I were in the above scenario, then yeah, I might be pushing Roll Tide.

why? There many colleges that don't cost $60K+ other than Bama. I can afford to send DC to a different oos if needed. It certainly won't be Bama.

Not everyone is so fortunate. So good that you have choices, but others might not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst is extraordinarily generous with financial aid and also recruits heavily from a lot of different income levels with things like all expenses paid visits for lower income kids to visit campus (or at least they used to do that—I doubt they e cut that program). I was middle class (real middle class not DCUM middle class) and they covered the vast majority of my tuition. I got into 9 schools and even though they all supposedly were using the same Fafsa need info, Amherst came out more generous than any of the other schools (other than my instate public). It was cheaper than going to UVA out of state.

Amherst caps "typical assets" at 200k.

So if you make 150k in nyc and have a Vanguard fund outside retirement that's over 200k, you're paying full freight.

np.. Our HHI is $320K. We have two kids, and we are about to retire soon. We cannot afford close to $400K for college for each child. And we get 0 financial aid.

My daughter graduated Amherst in 2020 the year cut short by covid. At the time our family income averaged just north of $200k with a $600k mortgage and 1 other kid in college for 3 of her 4 years. Our total cost of attendance averaged about $40k per year with $35k+ per yr in financial aid. We scratched and clawed our way through those years financially and spent some of our savings but were able to get 2 kids through college without taking on more debt (and the kids graduated debt free). The cost was a little more than instate at UVA but it was well worth it to us. She had a fabulous 4 years at Amherst and, after working and living at home for 2 years to save money, is now in med school at NYU (free tuition!). It's possible she may have ended up doing about as well had she gone to UVA, but her father and I are extremely thankful for Amherst's financial support and the education Amherst provided our daughter.

sounds like you didn’t have a lot of assets