<p>i got into upenn as well
but i assume
i'll choose between those two </p>
<p>i'm thinking about attending Law school
, which makes amherst a good choice i think.
but other than that,
i suppose stanford weighs over amherst </p>
<p>yeah it's sorta subjective<br>
but any opinions?</p>
<p>Thinking of attending law school makes either school a good choice.</p>
<p>Your choice comes down to two questions:</p>
<ol>
<li> Where do you want to live for the next four years?</li>
<li> Do you want to go to a small college, or a fairly large university?</li>
</ol>
<p>If your answers are "California and small college," or "Massachusetts and a largish university," as yourself which factor means more to you.</p>
<p>UM...Amherst is smaller than Stanford</p>
<p>also...is prestige a factor? Stanford will have a more diverse group of kids. While Amherst is a small liberal arts college you will get all sorts of people with all sorts of interests at Stanfordv( like math). More of the world's top professors teach at Stanford. While you may get people turing down Harvard for Stanford, you probably would not have people turning down Harvard for Amherst. Amherst is still a wonderful liberal arts college with a good reputation. Those may be exagerated views...but those are just my oppinions.</p>
<p>oh yea...You would be able to major in business at UPenn, and while I would not want to go there, that may be good prep for law. It would also give you something to fall back on in case you decide that you do not care for law.</p>
<p>Greybeard meant "Massachusetts and a largish university" to show how one person could like some place located in Mass (Amherst) but also a large university (Stanford) so that's why he said if that's the case, you must weigh one factor more heavily over the other.</p>
<p>Well I dont know if this matters but Stanford has a really really good Law school so you would probably have reallly good professors if you did Pre-law at Stanford. And I know that rankings are considered blasphemous on CC sometimes...but look at these:
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/brief/lawrank_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/brief/lawrank_brief.php</a></p>
<p>The quality of the law school won't be a factor for undergraduates. You'd have good professors at Amherst, or Brown, Princeton, or Dartmouth for that matter, even though these schools have no law schools.</p>
<p>I had a similar dilemma-- Stanford v. Williams-- and I chose Stanford. My main reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li>amazing variety of options and resources that only a larger university can offer</li>
<li>California rocks in several ways: no snow, lots of sunshine, laid-back culture, cool vocab (hella, for example)</li>
<li>strong academic programs in basically everything</li>
<li>diversity of student body and social opportunities</li>
<li>it's Stanford-- how could anyone turn it down?</li>
</ol>
<p>the LACs are every bit as prestigious as HYPSM in the eyes of grad schools (from what i hear). so the choice shouldnt really weigh heavily on who you think will get you into law school, they both will. the choice boils down to real specifics (like how good is the specific intended department at each school) but more importantly the ATMOSPHERE. because theyre totally different, a visit should clear up your choice.</p>
<p>and i disagree, people do turn down Harvard for Amherst (but it may be less common because people go to Harvard because they are prestige whores, not because it is a better school)</p>
<p>um...no perhaps you should consider that some people choose harvard because of the financial aid and they dont necessarily need to be prestige whores...it could just simply be for the academics or because they felt more comfortable with the Harvard environment. </p>
<p>talk about generalization..</p>
<p>Although I didn't apply to Amherst, I did apply and get into Williams and Swarthmore as well as Stanford. I recently decided to enroll at Stanford for most of the reasons that lucy517 mentioned but also because I felt that the LACs, I'm not sure if Amherst is the same, were very isolated and since their student bodies are small, the feeling of isolation was even greater, especially over 4 years.</p>
<p>personally id go,</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
</ol>
<p>lol princeton offers just as much finaid as harvard does. if you're harvard material and not a prestige whore, youd go to YPSM, which all pay more attention to their undergrads than harvard (actually arguably maybe not stanford).</p>