Reply to Amherst, Rice or Columbia

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Amherst, Rice or Columbia"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]The Amherst campus is definitely the best.
I think I’d choose rice over it for engineering, comp sci or applied math.  Toss up for physics or bio or chem if the goal is med school or a PhD.  Probably Amherst for humanities if we are just talking academics.

But the environments are very different.  If you hate the cold, that tips it to rice.  But I’m a little surprised by people saying Houston is such a great city…there are great cities to live in Texas but Houston is not one of them.  It is muggy, buggy, in hurricane belt with no city planning and awful sprawl and traffic.

And in response to PPs, I would say Amherst is neither rural nor suburban.  It’s really an almost unique situation — with the five colleges there, there is a significant community of young people and professors which leads to great restaurants, music scene, etc., that you don’t normally get in either rural areas or suburbs.  Amherst has done a good job keeping the country feel of the campus with the bird sanctuary and view of the “mountains.”  (What we’d call foothills out west.). It’s really very pretty but does not feel at all isolated because of the buzzing community.  As Pp noted, there is an area with stuff like Trader Joe’s and your standard chain restaurants about a 10 minute drive from campus.  The town of Amherst itself is more cutesy with the standard New England town commons, school bookstore, and little shops/restaurants.

Columbia is I think just a different kind of place.  You’re either going to love that or hate it and your kid probably already has a good sense of what camp they fall in.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics