Tufts VS Amherst (social scene)

glittervine
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 23:06:10 +0000

I’m a junior at Amherst, so I can’t speak for Tufts (although I do know several people at Amherst who chose Amherst over Tufts). It is smaller, which I like. There is a bit of an athlete/non-athlete divide, which I’ve written about before, but I am incredibly happy here as a non-athlete. Lax bros might run the party scene, but definitely not the world. I wouldn’t say there’s a social hierarchy either.

I’m close with my professors. I’ve gone to several professors’ houses for dinner and taken a few out with TYPO (Amherst pays for a small group of students to take a professor out to dinner locally). I also got a job as a research assistant starting freshman year, and I’ve been working with that professor ever since.