Please see the "Virtual Campus Visits" section above to register for one of the VCV sessions. The Saturday and Sunday tour schedule remains the same. Like math has really never been my thing, but I've taken a math course almost every semester that I've been at Amherst because the faculty members are just like absolutely incredible and take so much time out of their own schedules to help me whenever I am having trouble to just check in on me and see how I'm doing both in the class and also just like as a human being. And so I was a little nervous. Reservations are not required for individual students and their families or for small groups of fewer than ten visitors, but we do encourage you to sign up online in advance of your visit. If you're just beginning your college search, a virtual tour can be a great way to get a feel for a campus before your visit. Attendees will be encouraged to ask questions. So in this building right here, the Keefe campus center. In all academic departments, not just like the hard sciences. We deeply regret the necessity of the restrictions we must institute, but the realities of the pandemic necessitate that we create a strong bubble on our campus. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. And I was really happy to see that we have so many nice towns and malls around us. And we essentially looked at different authors and sort of contextualized different views and attitudes towards progress. I went off campus and I know Diego also went off campus. For example, I'm involved in ASA, which is the Asian Student Association. So pretty much after you come back for a LEAP trip, you're straight into classes and the freshman seminar is essentially essentially a class with the people you took your LEAP trip with. Experience 1,000+ colleges & universities in virtual reality. So I really appreciated that space and looking back on freshman year so many of my, really the best memories from Amherst come from these ASA events. Really cool, and really got to know my classmates very well. So we're not in the middle of nowhere and basically our college is in the middle of Amherst town, which is a really nice college town. It might feel a little bit more easy to talk to a student than an adult. Join current first-generation, low-income Amherst College students to chat about financial aid, work study, and other campus resources, with a chance to ask questions and get tips and support. We invite you to read more about Admission-related modifications related to COVID-19 Considerations, including suspension of our SAT-ACT requirement for the coming application year and flexible understanding of COVID-related changes to high school academic programs. Jog your memory using the virtual tour and even explore the area surrounding the campus using the interactive mapping tool. Diego (05:58):in that really made Amherst feel like a much more natural place for me to be. 220 South Pleasant Street So like I said, I'm on the premed track. Hosted on Zoom by Bowdoin students, our 30-minute webinar-style virtual tours traverse the complete on-campus route and are followed by a live question and answer session. I actually stayed on campus for my LEAP trip and I think Fiona did as well. Fowler Dickinson, a lawyer, was one of the principal founders of Amherst College. View session recordings from the Discover Dickinson Virtual Fall Open House—a three-day, student-led “Choose Your Own Adventure” event that offered the scoop on admissions, academics and student life. So for career advising in particular. We are taking deliberate actions in an effort to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 and we greatly appreciate your understanding. And it was very, very nice and it gives you a sense of things to try out and to do if you don't really have a general direction just yet. Blake (18:44):Yeah, absolutely. Click on an available date from the calendar at lower right. The Davidson College Virtual Tour is available in both Standard and Accessible formats. Fiona (20:38):Yeah. 374 Whitmore Building 181 Presidents Drive Amherst,Massachusetts USA 1003 (413) 545-0222 Visitors, as well as staff who are not required to be on campus to support our students, are now prohibited from entering campus and using college grounds and facilities. If you're just beginning your college search, a virtual tour can be a great way to get a feel for a campus before your visit. And I definitely encourage everyone to take advantage of the open curriculum here to really explore new things, things that you don't get to really explore outside of college. This virtual tour showcases real videos made by real students who will tell you what the Amherst College experience is really about. Getting out of our comfort zones physically in that regard, helped us to get out of our comfort zones mentally and emotionally as well. Campus Map. So the Loeb center is really a great place to go to for advising in careers where they can point you in the right directions for internships and for other job opportunities. Amherst College Virtual Tour. And it was a really interesting way to sort of start engaging at Amherst and look at things through a multidimensional liberal arts lens. They're amazing if you're at least interested in it a little bit, like the intro classes is there everyone to take and I really would recommend it. So a little bit about myself. I know let's of students do end up staying. The liberal arts experience at Amherst is rooted in the flexibility and freedom of our open curriculum, a curriculum that very few other institutions offer.With no distribution or general … Diego (11:55):Yeah. My name is Lucheyla and I'm a rising sophomore class of 2023. And we offer one of the most comprehensive, ambitious financial aid programs in the country. International @Amherst: Thursday, March 4th, 5:00 - 6:00 pm ET, Arts @Amherst: Thursday, March 18th, 5:00 - 6:00 pm ET, STEM @Amherst: Thursday, April 15th, 5:00 - 6:00 pm ET, Athletics @Amherst: Thursday, April 29th, 5:00 - 6:00 pm ET. CampusTours provides virtual tours of 1,700+ colleges and universities and builds virtual tours and interactive maps for schools and organizations ... Amherst College. There are lakes nearby, you know, fresh air and wide open spaces. And the Loeb center as a whole is a great resource to have because they have advisors that can cater to specific needs, a specific industry. So that was really nice. So it's literally a writing class taught by the college. You don't have any requirements apart from your freshman seminar that the only class you have to take. Thank you so much for joining. Amherst students come in lots of varieties! And I'm originally from Princeton, New Jersey, which is also a pretty small college town and feels really similar to Amherst. And just to know that there's stuff outside of campus for students to do. Join three Amherst students — Alexandre, Clara and Lauren — to explore our beautiful campus and learn more about academic and student life in our extraordinary college community. You don't have to necessarily identify as queer to be in the queer resource center. We also encourage students to attend a virtual information session and campus tour prior to any of the special sessions, so that you can get acquainted beforehand with other distinctive features of Amherst College. So for me, I played flute in high school, but I stopped junior year since I was busy with all the college applications and everything. Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. So those first year experiences were really great for me. Homes in this area have a median listing price of $379,000. So I was really happy about that, but even though it's a different sort of environment, it's a small town instead of a big city, it's really the people that made me feel really at home and made me feel welcome, especially because Amherst does so many activities when you first come in for orientation and for your first year to help build those relationships and build a foundation. CISE, I guess, is really close to my heart as an international student. I don't know what I want to major in yet. And I really appreciate opportunities like this, to be able to learn a new thing from scratch, like what Blake said about Japanese and the private lessons really allow me to pick up my flute again and gain access to performances opportunities. There's a cool forest. Blake (24:38):So unfortunately, I'm looking at the time. Take a virtual tour of UMass Amherst from anywhere, on any device. Explore these homes with our listing … And the only requirements they have, I guess, are you have to take it for credit. Join an hour-long campus tour given by student tour guides. So please get in touch. I'm from Lynn, Massachusetts, and I am a prospective Spanish and anthropology major. Advance registration is required. So my LEAP trip as you said was called Taking the Leap. Several tours are available to suit your interest. Fiona (20:48):which Lucheyla passionately talked about. We are good enough that we smoked our rival school Williams 24, nothing last spring, which I have to mention for the rivalry. Learn about not just Amherst College social life, dorm life, and campus life, but also how to survive it – exclusively on CampusReel. Assumption College Virtual Tour. These sessions are structured as an interactive panel discussion with an admission dean and multiple Amherst students. And it was really nice. And yeah. So CISE is there to support everyone on campus. In our video introduction, join a broadcast with journalism students, conduct research in a lab, run into friends at the Blue Wall, explore the beauty of New England, and meet our … I know there's lots of resources also on campus that's not specifically, you know, between student and adult. You can also follow our virtual Admission tour, either on your desktop computer or on your mobile as you walk our campus. Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Zoom: Join our NSO Drop-In Tuesdays: 9 - 11 a.m. Wednesdays: 3 - 5 p.m. I guess it sort of feeds in my love of academics at Amhearst. How was your LEAP trip? Tours depart from the Admission Office at 220 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA. Or a basketball player who loves philosophy. Or a computer whiz who plays saxophone and flute and has decided to try percussion. The Tuesday morning virtual visit may be especially convenient for international students joining us from multiple time zones, but all students are welcome to attend any of the sessions! Diego (12:45):but, but also you can start to develop professional connections cause they know people in their industries that they can give you, they can put you in touch with for internships and even like full time jobs after college. Virtual Tour Whether you are preparing for your visit or can’t make it in person, use this virtual tour to explore our campus. Our interactive Amherst College Campus Map shows all buildings and pathways on campus; locations for timely events such as Orientation, Commencement, and Reunion; parking lots; photos of all buildings; and Google street view. Explore the Heights in real-time and engage with your student tour guides in an interactive Q&A. It's open to everyone. So from my personal experience, I really value the Asian community here at Amherst. And so I think taking advantage of like the office hours that Blake was talking about that every professor has several times a week is really just invaluable in terms of the relationships that you develop, because we're such a small school, you can get very close to your professors and you'll get so much more out of the class by having that sort of rapport. So they put on dinners, community events, made it so students didn't really feel isolated being on campus by themselves. Like if you're a foodie, I really couldn't recommend anything better. Students love them. Alexa (15:11):if this track was really for me. Although we are unable to receive on-campus visitors at Amherst right now, there is so much that we want to share with you! So that's about all of us. So I knew I didn't want to be really in the middle of nowhere where it was just a campus and nothing else was around. Blake (08:51):I decided to take up Japanese. However, most schools provide 2-3 different start times for group tours in-person: in the morning, afternoon, and late afternoon. I would definitely echo what Blake said about the open curriculum since we really have no required core classes. View image caption. The open curriculum is amazing. We also encourage students to attend a virtual information session and campus tour prior to any of the special sessions, so that you can get acquainted beforehand with other distinctive features of Amherst College. Lucheyla (00:00):Hi, everyone. I really enjoyed it. Federal Policy Changes: Information & Resources. Professors at Amherst for you guys, not familiar with the terminology, have to put, they're required to [inaudible] so many hours for students, but like every professor has more hours open to students. I love Japanese department. T he Homestead, probably the first brick house in Amherst, was built around 1813 for Samuel Fowler Dickinson and Lucretia Gunn Dickinson, Emily's grandparents. And also, I think outside of the sort of professional legal side, they put on really cool events throughout the year for not just international students, but for all students. So we went hiking on various hiking trails throughout like the Pioneer Valley region, which is the general geographic area around Amherst. Because we are such well resourced schools like we have a lot of office hours. If things are developing really quickly, I think that CISE being that sort of help us advice us through how best to approach these things, what we need to do, has been like a godsend. But because I think also it's a credit to the liberal arts, which makes you a much more dynamic thinker that you can apply lessons learned from history, computer science classes, to economics and to meteorology. Diego (22:11):Yeah, so, so my probably biggest time commitment for extracurriculars at Amherst is being on the club rugby team which although on its face is very different from like the ASA and many other of these student, sort of student-run support organizations, rugby has still been an incredibly valuable experience for me in terms of supporting me academically and personally which you wouldn't really expect from a sport. One of my professors for a course I took over the interterm between the fall and spring semesters, put me in touch with an economics professor who was looking for someone with skill in a particular piece of software that I had experience with just because me and the professor who put us in touch had this relationship and he was able to connect me with that. Blake (07:06):Absolutely My LEAP trip was called green buildings and we basically looked at some green architecture around the pioneer valley. Amherst College220 South Pleasant StreetAmherst, MA 01002, We are thinking of you in these challenging days and send our best wishes, Virtual Campus Visits: Information Sessions & Campus Tours. virtually! I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was really surprised because it wasn't something that made me feel uncomfortable or uncertain. Babson College Virtual Tour. Boltwood Avenue Amherst,Massachusetts USA 01002-5000 (413) 542-2328. I'm not sure. We came second in our championship last fall, but it's helped me socially as well. And it also really connected me with other musicians here on campus who are now some of my best friends. So I was definitely skeptical at first. Attend a live, student-led virtual tour of campus. So I guess that's a really good example of what you can do with it. Amherst students inhabit many worlds -- academic, artistic, athletic, political, social and much, much more. Diego (00:20):Hi everyone. Social Links Like they'll always have [inaudible] people. Join us for a virtual campus visits, starting with a 45-minute information session (presented by an admission dean) followed immediately by a 45-minute virtual campus tour (led by a student tour guide). So I [inaudible] with no prior experience of Japanese. There are couches to hang out, free snacks, free printing and free coffee, free tea and free like sexual health resources. Writing and Journalism@Amherst: Tuesday, March 2nd, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, The Five College Consortium: Tuesday, March 9th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, Residential Life@Amherst: Tuesday, March 16th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, Sexuality and Gender@Amherst: Tuesday, March 23rd, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, Student of Color Affinity Spaces@Amherst: Tuesday, March 30th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, First-Year Experience@Amherst: Tuesday, April 6th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, Religious Life@Amherst: Tuesday, April 13th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, Political Engagement@Amherst: Tuesday, April 27th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, Language Learning and Study Abroad@Amherst: Tuesday, May 4th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET, Advising, Thesis Writing, and Career Planning@Amherst: Tuesday, May 11th, 7:30 - 8:30 pm ET. The center, Hannah and Gabe, are you the first in your to. The instrument anymore best virtual experiences of schools worldwide amazing people 'm a sophomore... 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