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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]Don't know much about Pomona but I think both Williams and Amherst are wonderful for students looking at a small liberal arts college. I believe Amherst had a record number of applicants for class of 2029 with over 16,000 apps, don't recall for Williams. I doubt a student can go wrong at either school for humanities or STEM.[/quote]
Williams is much better than Amherst for stem.[/quote]

Perhaps years ago that may have been true, no longer in 2026. Williams may have a slight edge in theoretical math/physics but Amherst's consortium and the open curriculum may be better for CS and other interdisciplinary STEM. Both send about same percentage of students to PhD programs. Neither school is "much" better than the other.[/quote]
Williams students are getting more awards and more recognition in Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Geosciences. Amherst is better for psych and bio. Especially math, there is no argument that Williams is much better than Amherst [/quote]

I don't think so - similar for major awards normalized for size. The interdisciplinary sciences may be better at Amherst esp the research environment offered by UMass and the other LACs.[/quote]
Amherst students hardly use Umass in the way you think they do. They aren’t joining Umass labs, nor are they taking more than maybe 1 or 2 classes there.[/quote]

Quite the contrary, many do take classes in the consortium, esp at UMass, and many do use the research labs as did my DC and many of their friends.[/quote]
Great then it shouldn't be difficult at all for you to link a single Umass Amherst lab page with an Amherst college undergraduate student researcher in it! Let's see it![/quote]

That's not my job. You seem weirdly obsessed about this though.[/quote]
What a lazy argument. You can’t do a basic google search now? You made a confident claim and immediately walked back as soon as it was pushed back on. It’s okay to just say you lied.[/quote]

Did they lie? Or do they just not feel like engaging with your nonsense? If it is important to you then search the lab pages and prove them wrong.[/quote]

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