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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP and let's try a different tact.

Amherst was the first school to shut down for Covid.  At an admissions tour during last spring (spring 2022) the admissions officer proudly said that they led Harvard in the shutdown.

Before our admissions tour we walked from a parking lot to a tent, and had to sign that we were vaxxed (and I think we also did that upon booking the tour). I was fine with that.  They issued me a KN-95 because I had a lesser mask.  Fine.

We walked up the hill to the main quad area, and there was a huge tent.  I wasn't thrilled bc the weather was lousy, but okay. Then, the chairs were socially distanced.  I was thinking, wow, we are all vaxxed and OUTSIDE in KN-95s, in socially distant chairs, in 2022 this is pretty intense.

The first part of the admissions tour was about how they are the most (agressive in) keeping their students safe.  At this point I realized we were not going to get to go inside any buildings.  I wasn't thrilled about that--we'd driven a long way and (total tangent but ironically for this thread, we came from Los Angeles).

Then a parent asked where the bathrooms were and they were directed to porta-potties, I was suddenly completely furious and I hid it from my kid.  Could not wait to get out of there. I felt that at this point, Amherst's ego and identity/culture on the issue of covid safety was overriding the science.

I believe that due to this, the chances that Amherst will shut down in the future for the slightest covid resurgence is high. That is great news to some people and not great for other people, [b]so all I'm saying is to factor in your own family's covid tolerance when looking at Amherst; because it is really a standard deviation or two away from the norm.[/b]

Anyways, my DC ended up not liking it for other reasons:  that they were so free-flowing about no required classes and "some kids even triple-major...we don't recommend it, but we'll let them, because we don't like to say no to our kids."  DC said this was the wrong school as she needed structure.

So I don't know how Pomona compares on those two fronts, but wanted to mention what I did learn about Amherst.[/quote]

Thanks for this-as a physician parent I am appalled. I think it’s great to know how these colleges are managing Covid in the modern day. Will be telling for the next variant that comes along, or the next contagion..[/quote]

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