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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know Amherst ranks well but I genuinely don't see how it's equally good as Williams when it comes to academics. If you go by raw academic stats (class sizes, student to faculty ratio, financial spending, etc.) Williams is the front runner. You have oxford style tutorials and some top notch academic centers at Williams too. [/quote]

The alternate ranking below looks at professor quality, diversity, student happiness, and number of classes offered/class sizes. Unfortunately it only includes schools that required test scores in 2019, but for those in NESCAC that are included Williams placed significantly higher (#6) than Amherst (#39) and all the others. The list, btw, includes universities, too, and is ahead of all Ivies except Penn (#5).

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/6/
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That particular ranking does not look specifically at academic factors which is what OP was asking. If you're looking at other factors, one could pull data to support Amherst over Williams depending on what factor you are looking at. Back to academic factors though, Amherst has the 5 college consortium, including UMass Amherst, which Williams, being so remote, does not.[/quote]

When we toured, it sounded like Amherst kids didn't really use classes at other campuses unless it was a very specific need. Not anything like Haverford/Bryn Mayer/Swath level of cooperation/shared campuses. [/quote]

For sure its not the majority or even significant minority of classes. My DD took one class at UMass in her freshman year. It's good to know the option is there. Obviously, a school like UMass offer many more classes than the smaller LACs.
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