interesteddad

I've never been that wild about Tony Marx.

Amherst was in terrific financial shape a year ago. That was before they revealed the $503 million in cash call commitments and before they borrowed an additional $150 million. Of the five top endowment liberal arts colleges, Amherst is in, by far, the biggest financial jam. They are being forced to make serious cuts in the quality of their undergrad program most specfically by increasing enrollment by 200 students with no increase in faculty size - much more severe cuts than Williams or Swarthmore are making.

I don't have any beef with Amherst. I thinks it's a fine school. The current situation is what it is. Is Amherst going out of business? No, of course not. Is Amherst next year going to be less than Amherst last year? Yes. No question. They are making $48 million in cuts over three years with more still to come on top of that.

Corbett

The individual who started this thread specifically asked about science enrollments, and then about the quality of science facilities. The reality is that northeastern LACs do differ significantly in these regards.

It's not "unfair" or "biased" to acknowledge such differences (especially in response to direct questions), if they do in fact exist.

Granted, the number of math/science majors or the quality of the math/science facilities do not automatically define the best choices for prospective math/science majors. However, these are factors that are worth considering in the overall college selection process.

OldbatesieDoc

What I want to know, is do the 3 of you-interested, Corbett, and JohnWes have jobs, or what? I am learning a lot from you, but 8,000 posts? Do you have several sets of triplets, or are you just obsessed?

Corbett

This is my job. Grateful students, parents, faculty, and college administrators donate voluntarily and generously to my PayPal account to ensure that I keep posting here on a regular basis. Details upon request.

OldbatesieDoc

Aha. Are you from Nigeria? You seem to either work very late, or be in another time zone...I do count myself among the grateful, but I don't know about the paypal thing.