I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.
I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.
Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.