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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We toured Amherst two years ago and DC was similarly underwhelmed. Not sure why they are ranked high. Academics don't really stand out--similar to other lower ranked schools--and they recruit a lot of athletes, which is a problem for such a small size school. [/quote]
I've begin to see WASP more as WSP-A, because I can't ever find something that puts Amherst above the other T4 LACs. Williams has fantastic tutorials/Oxford connections, Swarthmore has engineering, an amazing honors program, and top grad placement rate, and Pomona is special as an LAC in California, the Claremont colleges, and Cambridge connections.

Amherst has a lack luster campus, an open curriculum, which I still will never understand why this is a pro outside of avoiding classes you wouldn't try which defeats the purpose of a liberal arts college, and a depressing library.[/quote]

A compelling argument for an open curriculum is that it creates a great classroom environment because everyone wants to be there. They aren't just fulfilling some distribution/writing/quantitative requirement—they all have a genuine interest in the material. Also, Amherst has the consortium. Turns a smaller LAC course catalog (which many say is a con of LACs) into one with 6000+ courses.[/quote]

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