Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 19:28     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We were in the area for something else this weekend and drove through the Amherst campus. It’s the first SLAC that either DC or I have seen, and we both thought it was beautiful.

Is this just a case of different-strokes-for-different-folks, or did we miss something?

Compared to other Liberal Arts Colleges, it has a very lackluster and underwhelming campus. DC thought he wasn't going to want an LAC after Amherst (first tour) but loved all the others. It's pretty in terms of being in New England, but the actual buildings and amenities are pretty piss poor.

D'24 had a very similar reaction. Sure the memorial is nice, but it looked like the college was still in the beginning stages of being founded-where are the buildings! It was shocking to see the buildings that weren't the science center. Campus needs a massive touch up.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 19:23     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:We were in the area for something else this weekend and drove through the Amherst campus. It’s the first SLAC that either DC or I have seen, and we both thought it was beautiful.

Is this just a case of different-strokes-for-different-folks, or did we miss something?

Compared to other Liberal Arts Colleges, it has a very lackluster and underwhelming campus. DC thought he wasn't going to want an LAC after Amherst (first tour) but loved all the others. It's pretty in terms of being in New England, but the actual buildings and amenities are pretty piss poor.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 19:16     Subject: Amherst Tour
We were in the area for something else this weekend and drove through the Amherst campus. It’s the first SLAC that either DC or I have seen, and we both thought it was beautiful.

Is this just a case of different-strokes-for-different-folks, or did we miss something?
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 17:41     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We toured all the NESCAC schools except for Trinity and liked Amherst and it’s campus the best. I think it’s going to get even better with the new student center and dining commons currently being built. Williams way too remote and no other surrounding colleges so no real college town. You walk out of Amherst and there are a number of restaurants nearby.


What did you think of Connecticut College?


NP - my DS told me it wasn't for him before the tour even started, tho I suspect that's because it was a saturday morning and the campus was very quiet. TBH it was a lovely tour, I was little surprised there was not official info session but we weren't too serious about the school any way (kid likes big state schools at it turns out.) It's a very uniform campus, perfectly pretty, for someone who wants NESCAC it's a good choice I think and not as competitive as some of the others.

Not too many SLACs are a 10-minute drive from beautiful beaches!
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 16:14     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It was valuable to tour Amherst with my 2024 dd. She crossed it off the list and never looked back.

Same with DS. I was shocked how quickly it went from his ED pick to him clawing me to get out of the tour and back into the car.


Again, where did they attend instead?

Swarthmore!
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 16:07     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It was valuable to tour Amherst with my 2024 dd. She crossed it off the list and never looked back.

Same with DS. I was shocked how quickly it went from his ED pick to him clawing me to get out of the tour and back into the car.


Again, where did they attend instead?
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 14:38     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We toured all the NESCAC schools except for Trinity and liked Amherst and it’s campus the best. I think it’s going to get even better with the new student center and dining commons currently being built. Williams way too remote and no other surrounding colleges so no real college town. You walk out of Amherst and there are a number of restaurants nearby.


What did you think of Connecticut College?


NP - my DS told me it wasn't for him before the tour even started, tho I suspect that's because it was a saturday morning and the campus was very quiet. TBH it was a lovely tour, I was little surprised there was not official info session but we weren't too serious about the school any way (kid likes big state schools at it turns out.) It's a very uniform campus, perfectly pretty, for someone who wants NESCAC it's a good choice I think and not as competitive as some of the others.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 14:33     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We toured all the NESCAC schools except for Trinity and liked Amherst and it’s campus the best. I think it’s going to get even better with the new student center and dining commons currently being built. Williams way too remote and no other surrounding colleges so no real college town. You walk out of Amherst and there are a number of restaurants nearby.


What did you think of Connecticut College?


DP the surrounding area was sketchy and the campus buildings seemed run down.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 14:15     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:It was valuable to tour Amherst with my 2024 dd. She crossed it off the list and never looked back.

Same with DS. I was shocked how quickly it went from his ED pick to him clawing me to get out of the tour and back into the car.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 13:14     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:We toured all the NESCAC schools except for Trinity and liked Amherst and it’s campus the best. I think it’s going to get even better with the new student center and dining commons currently being built. Williams way too remote and no other surrounding colleges so no real college town. You walk out of Amherst and there are a number of restaurants nearby.


What did you think of Connecticut College?
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 12:39     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:We had the most dumbfounding info session at Amherst. The AO couldn’t put a coherent sentence together, rambled, and gave little to no info. When a prospective student in the audience asked a question he told him to to take out a brochure and read aloud from it to the group. So odd. The guy was older and we left concerned for him.


We also had a terrible info session at Amherst. However, the AO in our case was a younger woman with very red lipstick who didn't seem to understand the difference between EA and ED, which is problematic for an AO. She also did something really odd where she would say she will wait 5 seconds for any questions (like to a Kindergarten class) and did a countdown with her five finger up - that was funny the first time but she did it a few more time after that.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 09:14     Subject: Amherst Tour
We had the most dumbfounding info session at Amherst. The AO couldn’t put a coherent sentence together, rambled, and gave little to no info. When a prospective student in the audience asked a question he told him to to take out a brochure and read aloud from it to the group. So odd. The guy was older and we left concerned for him.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 08:54     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:It was valuable to tour Amherst with my 2024 dd. She crossed it off the list and never looked back.


Where will she attend instead?
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 08:52     Subject: Amherst Tour
It was valuable to tour Amherst with my 2024 dd. She crossed it off the list and never looked back.
Anonymous
Post 07/01/2024 08:38     Subject: Amherst Tour
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Open curriculum.

Not everyone can go to Brown


An acceptance rate of 9 percent to Brown's 5 percent isn't much of an improvement.


I agree! Was being cheeky. 😉