Amherst College
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Free Curriculum and Diverse Student Body

The freedom from free curriculum is obvious, while the diverse student body says a lot about the school's recruitment effort as well as the potential conversations that can happen between you and your fellow students. First year dorms are the nicest housing on campus, and room sharing is kept to double, with a lot of two-room doubles available, which is a quite convenient arrangement.

Amherst Is Amazing. It's Five Colleges in One.

It's small and the professors are almost uniformly intelligent and caring; everything revolves around the students and their best interests. The most amazing and unique thing about Amherst is that it is connected to four other colleges in the Five College Consortium--this affiliation has allowed me to take many courses and meet a range of people I would never have met by attending one college alone. The connection to a large public university is particularly great; it gives me access to a vast amount of coursework, facilities and resources (especially in the departments in which we are limited, like Music) from the personalized, cozy vantage point of an Ivy-League-level liberal arts college.

Amherst College

Liberal arts education, five college consortium, open curriculum, small and diverse student body, accessible and student-oriented professors