How rural is Amherst?

Dad2
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0000

If the OP considers a rural setting as a negative, then he/she should look seriously at Swarthmore, which has a gorgeous arboretum/campus and yet is in a suburban location close to Philadelphia and an hour-and-a-half train ride to NYC. Of the top SLAC’s, Swarthmore may well be the least isolated.