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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For other stem majors, I think almost all lacs provide a reasonably good education.  I like WASP, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Carleton.[/quote]

These would also be strong for humanities. [/quote]
Carleton MUCH LESS so compared to good lacs like Amherst.[/quote]
Give it a rest. Amherst is not all that — the location sucks and the athlete/non-athlete divide is way too pronounced.[/quote]

Amherst has an amazing science center and strong outcomes. Carleton has wonderful outcomes, with lots going on to PhDs. Oberlin, too. Wellesley students can take courses at MIT. They also participate in the Twelve College Exchange Program. Kids can get great STEM and/or humanities educations at just about any high-ranked LAC.[/quote]
Science center is overcrowded with too many departments. Many other schools give chem and bio individual buildings.[/quote]

The Amherst interdisciplinary science center is larger than the science centers of the other LACs mentioned here. There is a reason to put all the sciences together in one roof: for easy collaboration. Science and research do not work in silos[/quote]
Every peer of Amherst has whole buildings for biology and chemistry. Some have more than one. This is wrong. Also collaboration isn’t difficult across a liberal arts college campus.[/quote]

You are quite obviously not in science research and know little to nothing about it. There is nothing wrong with what was said.[/quote]
What? I just told you why you’re wrong. Count the amount of buildings that make up those 4 main departments at a peer of Amherst like Pomona and you”ll see yourself that there is a lot more space at Pomona than Amherst, for example. Same is true for Bowdoin and Williams [/quote]
Also I’m in the field of biophysics, please don’t lecture about science when you haven’t presented credentials yourself [/quote]

Presenting “credentials” on an anonymous site?! What a joke, but for what it’s worth I’m intimately involved in science and research. If you are truly in research, then it’s quite sad or your’e just trolling

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You have not made an argument, because I outlined clearly why you’re wrong. [/quote]

You’ve outlined absolutely nothing except toe say you’re a biophysicist (if you even know what that is). You’re not even sure whom you’re responding to![/quote]

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