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[quote=Anonymous]Very few replies here from current or recent parents or current students or recent alums. I graduated from Amherst College 25 years ago so my experiences aren’t recent, but I did try to talk to a lot of the current students at my reunion earlier this year. FWIW I loved Amherst and made wonderful lifelong friends. I don’t recall being bored, but a lot of my social life did consist of sitting around a dorm room joking around with friends. If huge parties are what your student wants, it might not be an ideal environment. There used to be regular college sponsored dance parties with free beer for students old enough to drink (“Tap”), but I don’t think that exists anymore, and I think the move to singles and doubles limits the size is dorm room parties. There are also lots of concerts, movies, etc. at the college and in the surrounding communities, so there are always things to do. But the social circle is largely limited to the kids at the college.

Amherst has actually made more of an effort than most comparable colleges to diversify its student body socioeconomically, so I don’t know that that particular criticism is well merited. They’ve put their recruiting and their money where their ideals are.

And the current students that I met were fabulous - smart, thoughtful kids doing great things. I would love for my kids to go there although they’ll never get in in this day and age. No legacy preference any more![/quote]

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