Why Williams over Harvard, Yale, or Princeton?

momrath
Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:49:47 +0000

Gavroche, Fill out those Williams financial aid forms and see what happens in April.

Amherst is a great school and a great town, but for someone interested in eventually pursuing architecture (as I see you are from a posting on the Amherst board) you should keep the Williams option open.

Williams offers superb programs in art and art history, as good I think as you could get at a larger university but with the advantages of an LAC education. Art history and studio arts, which curatorial and architecture sub-focuses, are strengths of Williams and weaknesses of Amherst. Of course you could always draw on the resources of the five college consortium, especially Smith, but, I think, this begs the question of why choose a small college in the first place.