<p>I know it is a great school, but how presitigous is it:</p>
<p>in the NE?</p>
<p>everywhere else in the US?</p>
<p>I know taht I want to live in the West or the South when I am older? Will noone know about Amherst?</p>
<p>It doesn't really matter whether people "know about" it or not - you'll get a great education. If they don't know about it, you can just tell them it's the most selective LAC in the country and that should shut them up.</p>
<p>Almost as prestigious as Penn =P</p>
<p>[--------------------This Prestigious--------------------]</p>
<p>But seriously, those in education know what Amherst is. The layman may not necessarily know about it, but that's not such a big problem. If somebody says they've never heard of it, just tell them what my sophomore precal teacher, who grew up 20 minutes away from Amherst, told me about it: "They call it 'Little Harvard.'"</p>
<p>And for good reason.</p>
<p>A friend is a dean at MIT, and when I told her D was deciding between different schools, one of them being Amherst, she said, "You have to let her go there - it's a mini-ivy!" Ask any of the following people: the Prince of Monaco, Dan Brown, Dr. Drew, relative of Pres of El Salvador, etc., and the list goes on. People. It's known where it needs to be.</p>
<p>There's a new housing development in my neighborhood named Amherst. The local Indian tribe is protesting they don't want something built on what had been their land named after a genocidal murderer.</p>
<p>(I think they would have preferred "Dahmer Commons".)</p>
<p>Great school. No one out here has ever heard of it. (Same with my alma mater - go Ephs.) If I had to choose again, I'd go to Amherst (though it would be my second choice after Earlham.)</p>
<p>Have fun deciding!</p>
<p>mini-Why Amherst over Williams?</p>
<p>mini: why Earlham though?</p>
<p>"mini-Why Amherst over Williams?"</p>
<p>FOR ME, much better location, better language departments, more offerings through the five-colleges, fewer athletes. Might not be for all.</p>
<p>"mini: why Earlham though?"</p>
<p>FOR ME, Better integration of study abroad into the larger context of the curriulum, more one-on-one interactions with faculty, dry(ish) campus, weekly all-campus colloquia (every Wednesday), more social awareness/social action integrated with studies, much more economically diverse student body, and I'm a Quaker. (If it was on the east coast, it would BE unique, and not many of us could get in - I suggested to them once that they call their Indiana campus their foreign exchange program, and buy some land in Vermont. ;))</p>
<p>They've heard of Amherst out here at Stanford and Cal. :-)</p>