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[quote=Anonymous]I attended Hampshire back in the 90's, and I'll say this about it: Hampshire is VERY quirky. It's a unique place. There's NO other college like it really, though a few come close (Antioch, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, Eugene Lang College of New School University, NYU/Gallatin School of Individual Studies, Bennington, Evergreen State, Prescott, Bard, New College of Florida) but none of them are fully equal to Hampshire.

SO, Hampshire is ACTUALLY the fully evolved experiential and experimental collegiate model of ALL the places I just listed that contain elements of what Hampshire ACTUALLY is in it's institutional totality. 
Hampshire was also founded by some of the BEST institutions of higher education in this country. Amherst, Smith & Mt. Holyoke are all considered "Little Ivies" and are all EXTREMELY well-regarded and academically prestigious colleges. UMass/Amherst is also a top-tier research University, it's the flagship campus of the State University system and it's well-known globally. These other institutions get Hampshire graduates  into Ivy League Graduate schools, myself included. I went to Yale for graduate school. It's true that in order to succeed at Hampshire you HAVE to be ambitious, driven, focused and self-motivated or you'll flunk out. Hampshire has more academic merit to it than meets the eye. [/quote]

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