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

Dad2
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:34:13 +0000

Among peer institutions, Swarthmore and Williams are probably more academically “gruelling” than Amherst. That said, the admissions people have enough choices to select students who can cut it (perhaps some purely athletic recruits or scion legacies might be at an academic disadvantage).