<p>The women’s colleges have very impressive dance departments, particularly Smith and Barnard. Barnard also has a very impressive theater department sending some young women to Broadway while attending, notably Cynthia Nixon.</p>
<p>I think Amherst is a wonderful school, and I would not have hesitated sending my daughter there, but I don’t think those departments are particularly strong at Amherst.</p>
<p>The consortium is a wonderful resource, but statistics show that few Amherst students use it very much.</p>