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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t think think anything OP said about Amherst is correct, except the comment about diversity.  It is, and always has been, at the top of the pack for SLACs and many kids there turn down lots of other schools.  (I was admitted everywhere I applied and chose Amherst.). It’s a gorgeous campus in a great college community with cool college towns, and great professors who are really engaged with the students.  Their commitment to diversity is super intense, though, so there’s no way my white UMC kids from MoCo are getting in.  So I’m definitely not talking it up to them!  
On the “different groups” point….my experience from some decades ago is that the only group that really didn’t mix much was the prep school kids from NYC (the Dalton folks, etc., not the Regis kids).  Those are also the guy that go into I-banking so maybe what PP experienced—-but those kids are at every top school.  I went to Yale graduate school and I found the Yale undergrads in my program pretty insufferable, but, again, there may be some selection bias there.

At any rate—hope everyone finds a good spot for their particular student! [/quote]

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