<p>Sorry, I now see you were asking about Wesleyan and Amherst. Not Williams.</p>
<p>Amherst is always rated highest among liberal arts colleges and there are many good reasons for this.</p>
<p>^^I’ve always wondered about that. Could you list them?</p>
<p>Huh? Williams has been rated above Amherst in both the US News and Forbes rankings for years. (Rankings are silly and borderline meaningless, but your comment is demonstrably false.)</p>
<p>^marvin. It makes them feel better to believe it is so…esp when Williams consistently is ahead of them in the meaningless rankings, that seems to matter so much to them–It must be tough to be Avis.</p>
<p>There is a history of funny pranks between Amherst and Williams. They are squabbling brothers which makes fun for all.</p>
<p>My favorite is when Amherst cut the football lawn into an “A” for Amherst. Williams retaliated by taking the “A” as a rating and cutting a “B+” in the Amherst lawn. But there were pranks that Amherst got the better of Williams when they stole the jerseys of the players. Or at leas that’s how I think it went down.</p>
<p>They are fraternal twins – almost identical. And as everyone involved with the two schools knows, Amherst was started as an offshoot of Williams by those who thought Williams could not succeed because of its extreme Western and mountainous location.</p>
<p>Williams is more remote and slightly bigger, so the departments often have more profs.</p>
<p>Amherst does have the consortium, which it turns out than most students don’t use.</p>
<p>Amherst has an open curriculum; Williams does not.</p>
<p>And beyond that, they are very similar.</p>