<p>My kid is a homeschooler from the rural northwest, Plainsman. He’s a high-financial-need kid with two parents who went to state colleges. He has not found it intimidatingly upper class at all. I wouldn’t worry on that score. Amherst does a brilliant job of mixing up the student body; ethnically, geographically, socio-econimcally, and in terms of class and family background. It’s a really wonderful place, and he’s made friends from all kinds of different backgrounds.</p>