Would Like To Know More About Amherst

interesteddad
Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:54:43 +0000

swarthmore has more hippies and is very radical/alternative.



That’s not accurate, unless you are referring to the 1960s.

If you had said more “geeky”, I would buy that. It’s more non-preppy, non-jock smart kids. Not much tie-dye or goth or pierced and tattooed or types that would fall under the “radical/alternative” headings such as you might expect at a Reed or a Bard or a Hampshire or even among some segments of Smith.

Amherst and Swarthmore share a lot of cross-admits, especially among the groups that would fall under the “diversity” rubric.