UC Berkeley vs Amherst

bluebayou
Sun, 11 May 2014 14:55:49 +0000

But that’s not the issue I have with you.



Actually, you have a problem with yourself. Unlike you, I don’t make this personal. :)



If you would be willing to pay a full 55k for say, Emory undergrad degree,



Again, back to the straw man arguments. Is your position really that weak that you have to resort to straw men?



My only issue with Amherst is it’s such a lonely, quiet place – less activities going on compared to the vibrant scene at Cal.



On this, we agree. But since the OP applied to a rural LAC, I assumed that s/he was interested in that type of experience. (Most high school seniors are not.)



I don’t believe that ranking, there must be an updated one. I don’t believe that UCSB ranks the same as Carnegie Mellon or MIT and Princeton. While I recognize UCSB is good but not that good.



Sorry, doc but the nrc is the only one out there by academics for academics. It gets updated about once a decade. (check out the history of it.)