True or False: The hardest thing about Amherst is getting in

KarateDad
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:01:10 +0000

This migrated into a weird kind of thread. I’m not sure how one can really factually state one school is more or less difficult than another. Dad2 made an assertion and I will offer the following anecdotally in support of his theory. My S’s school which sends many kids to W and A and less to S have come back and reported on their schools. What they report would tend to agree with Dad2’s post. Now of course even though these are all different kids going to only one of the three, you can certainly make a leap of faith knowing that they were all of similar academic background and achievement in HS. Certainly not empirical data. More importantly, I think it’s somewhat irrelevant to the original post. My own experience would indicate that the OP’s statement is certainly true at the ivy’s that I’m familiar with… Yale, Columbia and Dartmouth… after that, I’d just be spreading more heresay.