Amherst College

Amherst is one of the little three and consistently ranked as  one of the ,  top liberal arts schools.

 What  distinguishes Amherst from  the other little ivies  is that is iis a part of the
  Five Colleges consortium which includes Hampshire college, Mount Holyoke College ,Smith College and the University of Massachusetts- Amherst. These institutions  allow students to cross register for courses   and  make use of shared resources such as libraries.


 Amherst  has an acceptance  rate below 10% and  while academically rigorous and challenging.it has one of the highest graduation rates  at at institution.
 The supplementary essays  for Amherst are  fairly involved  topics.
   Here is a link to the essays:
 https://www.amherst.edu/admission/apply/firstyear/writingsupplement