<p>Hi! After visiting Amherst, I liked it very very much, and I am considering applying ED. But it is sometimes hard to tell if you really love a school from just visiting for a couple of hours so i was wondering if Amherst students could tell me what they love about their school. Thanks in advance!</p>
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<li>cool people</li>
<li>extremely interesting classes (with really good professors)</li>
<li>great food in town, a 3 minute walk from the edge of campus (including the subway i have gone to literally every day for lunch)</li>
<li>loads of free time (which is probably true of most schools)</li>
<li>beautiful dorms/buildings/scenery</li>
<li>seriously, the vast majority of the people here are painfully nice and equally interesting</li>
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<p>of course, i've only been here for three weeks</p>
<p>Actually, i heard that Amherst is "in a middle of nowhere" from a friend of mine who recently visited there.</p>
<p>Honestly, is the school more relatively isolated than others?</p>
<p>yes it is, but as always, this is about personal preference. it's extremely small, yet beautiful, and certainly not urban. the small size turned my d off more than anything...too much like high school.</p>
<p>I wouldn't call it "middle of nowhere" but I suppose that's relative. </p>
<p>We're surrounded by 30,000 college students, a lively art community, and we're just an hour and a half away from Boston, 3 hours from New York. How isolated can that really be? </p>
<p>Though I suppose if you're looking to be in a city, Amherst won't be a fit for you.</p>
<p>it's certainly a more rural setting than schools like yale or harvard, but to say that it's isolated is wrong. there are thousands and thousands of other college students in the immediate area, a lively and busy main street, plenty of plazas and a mall 5 minutes down the road, and umass kids flooding the area. i haven't once felt that i was "isolated" or "in the middle of nowhere." now, williams is another story...</p>
<p>I agree with everything zpot9 said, with the same caveat.</p>