<p>Whats Amherst college like?</p>
<p>Whats bad about it?</p>
<p>Whats good about it?</p>
<p>What are the professors like?</p>
<p>Are the pre-med kids cut-throat?</p>
<p>Baller</p>
<p>Bad: Dining hall is sub-par, but not terrible. Choose two out of the following three: good grades, social life, sleep.</p>
<p>Good: Academics. Classes are all intense, and professors are all amazing (in my experience). You will ask yourself, “Why am I doing this to myself?” But you secretly love it and find random flashcards in all of your pockets and always sleep with a book at arms reach. Parties are amazing and there are a lot of attractive people that are smart.</p>
<p>Professors: Love/hate. You will love some and hate others, but you will not find bad professors (unless they are visiting) They expect so much from you its ridiculous, but they are ALWAYS available.</p>
<p>Pre-med: hopefully after a semester of not being under the cruel tutelage of your parents you will switch to something you actually like. Not cut-throat, dude. I know several, they are come in all shapes and sizes and help each other. Amherst has a very strong community, no one will leave you hanging or try to hamstring you.</p>
<p>How is the campus itself?</p>
<p>Campus is very compact…a lot of dorms. The social dorms house a lot of the sport teams and are generally where all the parties are on campus (dont live there if you like to sleep). There are several theme houses, mostly taking up buildings that used to house fraternities. There is the freshman quad with all of the freshman dorms surrounding it. There is another house, the Zu, that houses students looking for a more communal living (they get there own budget for food).</p>
<p>Department buildings are all very nice; new Geo building with museum of natural history, science building is kinda old, but we are building a new one soon. Classrooms are all really comfortable and never too big (unless you take a class like intro physics whatever) It is not a hassle to get between buildings if your schedule has you going everywhere.</p>
<p>Lots of athletic stuff; gym, ice rink, 10,000 tennis courts, squash courts, baseball, field hockey, football, soccer. Really large wildlife sanctuary, cool for walks or whatever.</p>
<p>You will find that you really never want to, or need to, leave campus, but stores and restaurants are really close. You should check out the virtual tour on the website</p>
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<li><p>A good place to go for undergrad.</p></li>
<li><p>Awkward. Routine.</p></li>
<li><p>Safe. Comfortable.</p></li>
<li><p>Depends on the individual [student].</p></li>
<li><p>They enjoy a strong sense of community that shared suffering endows.</p></li>
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<p>Do all of the athletes live near each other then?</p>
<p>^There is a lot of that, yes.</p>
<p>How would a totally non athletic student, who isn’t big into winters/cold and is a bit of a
selective eater do? I am wondering about the fit with such a athletic reputation and such a small population. What about the social scene? And where is the best place for a student who lives to sleep on weekends?</p>
<p>Parentof2015, relative to other schools in the NE, Amherst’s compact campus is an advantage in cold weather, but if your child doesn’t like the cold, maybe CA or the South would be superior. [I recall walking back 20 minutes back from practice to my dining hall every day with wet hair and in the winter my hair would start to freeze; whereas at Amherst, the walk from place to place is more likely to be five minutes]. My son says the food is not great but is acceptable – unfortunately, I don’t think one is likely to get fine cuisine at the vast majority of schools and I don’t know that Amherst is worse than the vast majority of schools (we heard that the food at Bowdoin was well-liked). My son is not an athlete and seems very happy with his social life. In choosing two of academics, social life and sleep, he chooses academics and social life, but then will sleep late on the weekends. Doesn’t seem to be a problem.</p>
<p>Just be aware that kids can go through a radical change when they leave home for college. Our totally non-athletic son threw us for a loop when he joined an intense club sport his first week at Amherst. It has been great for him, but even if he had stayed non-athletic I think he would have been fine there.</p>
<p>I dont see D3 as a very athletic reputation… but if someone would elaborate lol</p>
<p>^^it’s never going to draw cable television sized revenue, but, that doesn’t make it any less compelling in its own way. Because they’re smaller and must support the same number of teams, D3 schools actually wind up having a larger proportion of their student bodies devoted to varsity sports than some larger universities, incuding Duke and most of the Ivy League. At Williams, for example, it can be pretty pervasive.</p>
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