What is the town like

reesezpiecez103
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:30:33 +0000

I’m not a student there (yet…crossing my fingers!), but I’ve visited several times. My impression when I visited was that it’s not roaring by any means - this isn’t Boston - but it’s really cute. It had several cute coffee shops and a some good restaurants - I’ve eaten in three of them and they were all great - a bookstore, etc. The houses are cute. On the one end you have UMass Amherst, and on the other is Amherst college, so there are a decent amount of college students.

One of the things that really separated Amherst from some of the other schools I looked at (Williams, Middlebury) is the actual town of Amherst. It’s no metropolis, but I’m not really sure anyone wants to change that.

Just my two cents.