Looking for a Good College?

middsmith
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:53:57 +0000

Regarding CommonWealth College,



But with a 600-student freshman class that boasts an average SAT score of 1,315 and a 4.0 grade point average, Commonwealth College, the state’s honors college at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, stacks up favorably against selective colleges throughout New England and increasingly competes for a caliber of high school graduate typically bound for more prominent schools.

“It is the jewel of our university system,” said Aaron Spencer, a former chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education who spearheaded the creation of the college. “I think the public is beginning to recognize Commonwealth College as almost Ivy League in its quality. It’s virtually the equivalent of [University of California] Berkeley.”



The average SAT and GPA at Berkeley for everyone is a lot higher than UMass honors college. It is not even close to being virtually the equivalent of Berkeley. Boston Globe, while trying to make a point, printed stuff like “almost Ivy League” for this college and try to compare it to Berkeley. And they say East Coasters do not think highly about top publics like Berkeley.