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Tiny, mediocre campus in a lackluster town.[/quote]
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[quote=Anonymous] No academic highlights (like Williams tutorial, Swarthmore Honors, etc).[/quote]
Open curriculum? Consortium?
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Racial and socioeconomic diversity on paper, but every group sticks with themselves.[/quote]
I'm always surprised when I see this repeated here. DC's friend group looks like it was made for a brochure.
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Snobby, condescending students who think they're big shots. This struck us because the students we met at Yale and Brown were so much more friendly and humble.[/quote]
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They tout small classes but only 62% are under 20 students- every other top ranked SLAC and nearly every top 20 university is ahead of them.[/quote]
Nice cherrypicking. They're ahead of Williams and Swarthmore on under 30. Either way, the "advantages" the other schools have are rounding errors.
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They themselves said few utilize the 5 College consortium, so that's a moot benefit.[/quote]
The benefit also takes the form of being in a real college town with sports games, bars, and an actual full selection of amenities.[/quote]
The consortium is not a real benefit and few students use it. I don't know why people on DCUM still are lying about this when it's common knowledge at this point. If you want a consortium that bad, go to the Claremont schools or whatever they are.
What percent of LAC classes even have 30 students?[/quote]

I don't think this is true about the consortium. My kid is at another one of the colleges in this 5 college consortium and it's definitely a benefit. She has gone to many social events at other colleges. Her friend is taking a class at another school. They do use it. Plus there's just an overall benefit to being in an area that serves a lot of college students in terms of the infrastructure that serves them. [/quote]
So 1 student at another school takes class off campus (btw no one is saying other colleges don’t sue the consortium- Hampshire basically only exists to take classes at the other schools), and students go off campus to other ones for some things. These aren’t exactly dazzling reasons to go to a college- I went to many MIT and BU events while at Harvard, but I wouldn’t list MIT parties as a core reason to go to Harvard [/quote]Being in a real college town with a full suite of amenities, restaurants open late into the night, proper bars, and 40,000 other students does give Amherst an advantage over Williams or Middlebury. [/quote]

Maybe for some but for my kid at least Amherst was the least interesting of the three mentioned. I do like Amherst, and they liked Amherst. We just liked the other two better.[/quote]

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