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Amherst Urban Legends

Amherst has such a large endowment that it can afford to purchase absolutely anything for its students.

That the rivalry between Amherst and Williams Colleges actually stems from genuine reasons, and not from manufactured and made up ones.

That the hardest thing about Amherst is getting admitted. Once that's accomplished, it's easy to get high grades because of the massive grade inflation here.

Parties at Smith and Holyoke are only attended by hot, voluptuous, and naked females.

Imagine how disappointed incoming Amherst freshmen were to find that their dreams of easy classes and voluptuous females were never going to materialize. Find out the real truth on what to expect at Amherst from College Prowler.

"People here are studious, though there are a lot of people who are very outgoing. However, both guys and girls complain about the lack of good-looking members of the opposite sex."

"People in town are ridiculously nice. There is a surprising variety of stores and restaurants. That's pretty much it. Thank God the College has a lively social scene, otherwise I'd shoot myself."

"I feel like a horse eating from a trough when I go to Val. Okay, I guess it's not that bad. The food can be bland at times, though."

Dispel the fiction and get the facts, straight from the students' mouths.

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