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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "Amherst - no question" response is really interesting.

About 40% of Amherst freshman are athletes. Then a large population of recruited URM and a a focus on LGBT students - and all the Venn diagram crossovers among those populations. Then there are the white bros who smoke a lot of pot.  If you're student might be in one of those groups, okay.  But if not, I don't see the appeal. I think it's historically prestigious but .. eh, not an academic powerhouse now. "You are not serious people"

I think Bowdoin is pretty special with more of a focus on intellectualism. I put it with Williams.

I dislike Amherst/Northampton too. That may drive this whole thing. It's a town of Migrants Welcome Here signs and no actual migrants. BLM but no actual Black lives. People who don't return their shopping cart to the rack and who will yell at you if you put your yoga mat too close to theirs.  White people in their Patagonia vests.  [/quote]

Cool story, 43% of Bowdoin students are varsity athletes [/quote]m

Yeah.  Most of these SLACs have similar stats. But agree Amherst also has the very distinct lgbt culture and urm.  I think Bowdoin is more 40 athlete and 60 not.  But the “not” aren’t further siloed.  I don’t know why populations mix better at Bowdoin but the Black table (etc) is alive and well at Amherst.  [/quote]

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