TBH if this is truly an important feature for you I would dig deeper into this. Ask for stats on how many classes at each of the other schools the average Amherst kid takes in 4 years. All but U Mass Amherst are a meaningful drive away (30+ minutes each way, realistically speaking), and U Mass Amherst is a decent walk or short-ish bike ride away. Which is not to say that kids don’t do it. They do. But our research showed that it was something that got more airtime than deep use in practice. The only consortium IME where it truly feels like you’d feel like you were at a bigger school community would be the 5C schools (Claremont schools). BOW (Babson Olin Wellesley) to a lesser degree - Olin and Babson are immediately adjacent, W about a mile away.
Umm…I guess it depends on how one defines generally 