On Amherst Students, Spirit, and Competitiveness

GA2012MOM
Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:57:04 +0000

#1…you are sooooo wrong. My daughter, an Amherst grad, found most students to be collaberative, very few gunners. She found that to be true in all her classes including her med school pre reqs which are usually the the cutthroat classes.

As far as the social divide…people hang out with friends with common interests. So yes, the athletic teams hang out with each other…as do the vocal groups, the drama kids etc. This is not unique to Amherst, it may seem so because of the size of the class. I said to my daughter before she went there, it is not how many friends you make…it is the quality of the friendships.