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By babs on October 12, 2010 2:16 PM
Isn’t Amherst College different from UMass Amherst?
Very very.
those fancy liberal arts schools are the best if one can get in. cause that usually means a full ride (vs. the other richie rich kids pay like 65-90k per yr) and the other students are kids of powers that be parents
SUNY Albany gets a big LI crowd. We always hated their obnoxiousness at places like the Lark tavern and the Washington Tavern
Isn’t Amherst College different from UMass Amherst?
amherst is more selective than most ivy league schools
“Gaelic or Celtic or whatever they spoke/speak is nutso
I mean most of the words sound NOTHING like they are spelled”
Totally true!
DH/Lech – I think you guys are right – I messed up Umass wasn’t the school I was thinking of
DH – You know….what DID happen to hammerstein? I think it became something called the 34th Street Music Center or something and they don’t do concerts anymore – I think
Radio City has around a 5000 capacity – I’d be surprised if Avett’s filled RCH
I agree about MGMT -but I could see them filling that capacity
Where I grew up on LI the Jewish kids who couldn’t get into NYU went to BU. BC, of course, is Catholic. I went to NYU but I’m not Jewish – they gave me the best financial aid offer. The other schools I got into all wanted me to have $1000/yr. in student loans and an on-campus job, while NYU offered me the full package – of course that was cut back every year until I wound up working for American Express 1/2 time taking claims for lost travelers cheques, taking out a total of $4000 in student loans, and if my grandfather hadn’t died and left me $1000 I wouldn’t have been able to finish.
Travelers cheques don’t still exist, do they? And $1000 today means nothing, but NYU still soldiers on, although now as one of the most expensive schools in the country, and the #1 fantasy college of high school seniors, as opposed to the middle-class refuge from the Ivies it was founded to be. That and their devouring of most of Greenwich Village is why the alumni association isn’t getting my money.
forget which school (Boston College or Boston U) has a ton of those rich middle eastern students who are chaffeured to school.