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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Williams and Amherst are true dedicated liberal arts colleges.

They are great preparation for grad schools in many areas, including law, but probably not advanced sciences. Williams, for example, is known for sending swaths of graduates into being custodians of the greater art and history museums.

Amherst was my son’s first choice but towards September they didn’t recruit him, and he ended up going to Williams instead.

They’re not lesser than the Ivies, except in size and disciplines, they are just different.

To this day when I say he went to Williams college a whole lot of people still pause and have no idea what college that is. There’s a pause and something like, “well, you know, at least he went somewhere” … they just don’t know what it is.

They usually have heard of Amherst because it’s … a town in Massachusetts[/quote]
The Williams art history mafia bs is tiring. A bunch of old alum succeeded, but it really isn’t indicative of the new crop of grads.[/quote]

That’s interesting, you may well be right. In fact, I don’t doubt you at all.

Perhaps that’s more indicative of the current climate for fine arts, museums and art history in general, given the dominant administrations of the last decade or so and lack of appreciation for those areas of study. Not even including what seem like actual points of attack.

I feel bad for my friends who were initially so proud of their kid going into forestry preservation after environmental studies. Same deal.

A whole slew of university and college humanities and language departments have been decimated in that time. I keep forgetting how long 10 years can be, since now I’m old enough that  10 years feels like only 5 years.

My son’s major would probably not fly today in the US at all in the job market, but instead he studied abroad junior year and had job offers to return to after graduation.

He would likely not find work here in his area of study in the US today. He has more opportunities where he lives now. 
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