CU Boulder vs. UMass Amherst

Themclos
Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:06:53 +0000

UMass gives merit money to OOS students more readily (it appears to me) than it does to instate students. My daughter received a a very nice scholarship. Caught us totally by surprise. But in reading the Mass threads, it appear very common.

One other thing - while schools that are not in cities will market that, for example, Boston and NYC are only 2 or 3 hours away, the reality (in my experience) is that college students who are an hour or more outside of a city very rarely visit these cities. Oh, it may happen once a semester (if that), but it is not a regular occurrence. UMass is in the middle of nowhere - albeit a very nice middle of nowhere. And that is just fine. The town of Amherst with the 5 colleges generates enough of its own college life.