<p>All of those representatives of Amherst are correct, and you cite them as they have spoken honestly. But, read what they have written yourself: indeed, women from Mount Holyoke and Smith do come to Amherst to party. However, they don’t come in immense droves, as hoards of flesh-hungry demons, as you seem to suggest with that irrelevant statistic: 6.7:1. </p>
<p>You’re overestimating the Five College Consortium–this isn’t a Columbia-Barnard sort of situation where both schools are actually part of the same university system, and masses of Barnard women choose to take classes at Columbia, and there is no other campus social scene besides that at Columbia. Smith, Mount Holyoke, UMass, and Hampshire are all individual, independent institutions that have their own distinct campuses, cultures, and events miles away–inevitably, handfuls of women from those colleges will look for something new and exciting on the Amherst campus every now and then, but it’s not as pervasive as you make it seem. Northhampton is plenty damned fun as one of the most desirable bourgeois-bohemian towns in the country; UMass is “ZooMass,” enough said; the MoHos have plenty of malls to crash and haunt in Hadley; and the Hampshire kids have enough fun by themselves as it is.</p>