Other reasons:
close to home
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I was recruited.
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it was my only choice
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FINANCIAL AID: I got a very good financial aid package. It was my primary motivating factor in selecting Amherst.
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Close to home. Only 100 miles away.
The interaction with/helpfulness of professors is fantastic.
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I hadn't seen it before I came here so I didn't have a good idea of what to expect but I am in no way disappointed in it.
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yes, I've really enjoyed my time at Amherst so far. I believe I made a good decision in choosing Amherst.
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Yes, mostly
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It has completely met them.
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It lives up to its academic reputation
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Amherst has fulfilled my expectations only as I have been willing to openly seek all of the resources that exist here. I have found that the more I reach out to the college the more i get back, however, without reaching out I would not be able to fulfill my expectations.
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Amherst has done a decent job in fulfilling my expectations as a student so far. I've been able to take the class I'm interested in and advance myself academically.
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very well.
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It's provided with great flexibility in choosing courses so that I might find something that interests me.
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interesting people to interact with and chances to get to know my professors
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i had none
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The courses are really great but selection is limited. There is not a wide variety of courses in each department. But each course is intensive, and that is good.
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The only problem that I have had is that is often hard to get into contact with a busy professor. This is troubling, for my computer science professor has been very hard to find at times when I have needed help.
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Everything I want in a post secondary education is presentes at Amherst College
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The professors are fantastic and the academic environment in classes (discussion with other students, etc.) is truly excellent.
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It is, in fact, a campus filled with very intelligent people (professors and students) who are always wonderful to be around.
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It has exceeded them. I've received a rounded education that has been shaped by my desires and academic interests.
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I have been surrounded by smart classmates in all parts of my daily life. The classes have been challenging and interesting. The open curriculum allowed me to take a wide variety of classes, but nothing that I hated having to take. The small campus atmosphere has allowed me to really get to know a lot of my classmates.
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My experiences at Amherst have been great. In fact, it has lived up to all of the expecattions listed in question 3.
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I've had great interactions with professors. I've been in many small classes with individualized attension from teachers. I've been able to study many different subjects. I've met a lot of people and made close friendships.
Small class size, absence of teaching assistants, emphasis on teaching rather than research, potential for variety of classes.
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It gives students the chance to explore. This is good even for people who have a fairly good idea about what they want to major in because it lets them explore side interest while pursuing their major.
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I believe that a liberal arts college teaches you to think, more than how to do one thing specifically. Because most people generally have several jobs in their lifetimes, I think this will be more important for me in the longterm.
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The open curriculum, which means that one does not need to take classes they have no interest in pursuing.
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With good professors and classes you might not normally take, you learn how to learn and while widening your own horizons, you're also making future topics easier to grasp.
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The open curriculum and course offerings
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You learn how to learn. As a student, your education emphasizes learning how to think, not learning how to perform a specific function such as accounting or engineering.
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The ability to "learn how to learn." Being a teenager, it's hard to know what you want to do with the rest of your life. A liberal arts college provides you to develop your interests and find a true passion.
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Taking a diversity of classes from many different departments. Learning to think in a variety of ways. Developing writing and analytical skills. Also the small community allows participation in many extracurriculars, including sports and music.
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It enables the students to experience a diverse set of subjects. This is particularly helpful to those who are uncertain of which fields they wish to pursue.
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allows more variety in types of classes you take
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i dont know
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Freedom to choose what you wish to do. You can also change areas of interest. Most students have not decided what they want to be their life at 18.
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I love that I have the ability to take whatever random assortment of classes that I want. There is less pressure that way, thus enabling me to work for my own benefit.
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To me,liberal arts colleges focus on the humanities of the world and prepares students for a real world situation
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Produces well-rounded students that can approach any number of different disciplines with ease. However, Amherst's open curriculum allows lazy students to go through college without learning integral subjects.
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The ability to expand one's horizons by taking a variety of classes outside of one's area of specialty. Also, the ability to interact with professors in an intimate academic setting.
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It allows students to explore very different academic disciplines. As an example, I am majoring in Mathematics and English, something that wouldn't be possible at many other institutions.
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The closeknit campus community, and the emphasis on a variety of subjects to learn about are the best points.
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As a math and science-type, I find that it allows students to be more well-rounded. Of course being well-rounded is not just a function of how many liberal arts courses you take. Liberal arts majors should take science courses as well.
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Most people can discuss issues in many different topic/subject areas, even if it is not their specialty
Other general skills:
Interacting with people.
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i dont have many skills
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Numerical/mathematical skills
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Social Skills
English
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Either physics or computer science.
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Economics
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Political Science/ Biology
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Political Science and Sociology
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Economics
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Neuroscience
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Psychology
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Economics and Political Science
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Biology
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Maybe English.
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history or psychology
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i dont know
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English, music
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Mathematics and Computer Science
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Economics
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Computer science and Geology
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English and Mathematics
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Computer Science
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Computer Science, Math, Economics
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Computer Science
Economics
further study in English/languages, perhaps after a few years' work.
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I have no idea.
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I would like to work in finance as an analyst or investment banker.
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Go to Medical School
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Perhaps work at a non-for-profit organization or law school or grad school in sociology, I don't nkow
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Attend Graduate School in Neuroscience
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I plan to travel. I intend on using it as a separator between my college life and my working and professional life. After travelling I plan on getting a job in the consulting industry.
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Enter the working world before attending a Bussiness graduat program to earn an MBA.
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Go to graduate school in biology, then get a job as a fisheries biologist
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Undecided.
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unsure
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i dont know
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Proceed to grad school to study architecture or engineering.
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Write for a living.
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Either become an actuary or a teacher (college professor)
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I have a job in Finance.
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Probably attend graduate school.
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I hope to work in a software- or technology-related field, doing something related to software development.
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I plan to begin working, preferably with a financial company that somehow allows me to use my language skills.
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Either work at an investment bank or directly go to graduate school for a Master's degree in Financial Math.
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Programmer/Law School
The humanities, at least, are overly kind to their students.
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A liberal Arts school such as Amherst is more of a feeder school to more education. These schools do not prepare an individual for jobs that require specific skills, it is more of a place that prepares an individual for medical school, law school, or graduate school. Employers from investment banks or consulting firms hire Amherst grads hoping that they are smart enough to learn the skills require for the job on sight. I am commented on this as an individual nearing graduation who in some ways would have preferred a non-liberal arts education.
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none
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i dont know!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amherst is all around beautuiful and magnificent. It really lets students explore themselve while getting to know other people in the process
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The environment at Amherst goes beyond its academic offerings, so it makes the student experience go further than simply academics. The small size and large proportion of students living on campus make it a very intense place. Furthermore, the academic standards are quite high for the most part, so people do a large amount of work.
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The negative is that if you are mostly not specialized. If you decide after a year that you want to go into a specialty like business or engineering, you can either transfer, abandon this idea, or wait until after you graduate.
Comments, if any, on introductory programming languages:
I've only been directly exposed to Java. I don't know much about the others, so I wouldn't know.
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i dont understand comp sci
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I think students should be made aware of the code they are supposed to memorise.
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The object oriented nature of Java is good, so in the same way, I would approve of using C . To a certain extent I feel as though C would provide a better perspective on the underlying workings of memory management (since the programmer has to be so much more involved in it), but the way the intro CS courses is taught allows students to understand this anyway, dispite the layer of protection that the JVM provides.
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I don't have experience with most of these languages, so I can't really comment on whether they would be well suited to a student's first course in programming.
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I learned in C originally. I think Java is a bit better to learn in. Java has fewer hardware/OS dependancies. Memory management is easier in Java. GUI's are easier to start with in Java (maybe, I'm not completely convinced this is true).
I might also consider Python, but I think Python possibly too easy to program in. I'd rather have people learn in a language like Java that is more verbose and more explicit because I think it's easier to debug as a beginner that way.
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