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I'm a graduate from UMass-Amherst (a.Biology
I'm a graduate from UMass-Amherst (a.k.a. UMass-Anheuser Busch) and I'm proudly a Students Review Ballot Stuffer. You see, I merely spend all day voting for UMass-Amherst in all reviews in order to put it at the top of every positive ranking list. I might be unaware that most people laugh when they see UMass-Amherst, a little-known school outside of Massachusetts, ahead of MIT, Berkeley, Caltech, or Stanford in the engineering ranking list. Most pathetic of it all, it's atop the lists with an overall number of votes that completely dwarfs all other universities' votes. For example, MIT has an overall 1,500 positive votes out of 10,000 --meaning 5,250 people have given it positive ranking while 4,750 have given it negative ranking. Then you have your laughing stock (UMass) with 1,500 positive votes out of an overall number of 35,000. Meaning the casual user has voted it down 16,750 times while I have pathetically voted it up 18,250! Hilarity ensues!
Alumnus Male -- Class 2000
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I had a 3.2 GPA in high school,Quite BrightEnglish
I had a 3.2 GPA in high school, and I had multiple extra-curriculars as well. I decided to apply to UMass but I figured I would end up going somewhere else, like some private school. I ended up getting put on the waiting list for UMass and into the three other schools I applied to. I eventually got in towards the end of the year, and I decided to go there. This is a GREAT school and the average GPA of the students here is roughly a 3.6! I've heard in a few years it might almost go Ivy League because of how much the students love it, and the professors as well. I hear no complaints and it's great!
1st Year Female -- Class 2014
Surrounding City: A+, Campus Maintenance: B-
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This school is the worst in the stateNot so brightFinance
This school is the worst in the state now. If you plan on being treated like a child in high school this is the place for you. If you want be to treated like the adult you are do not come here. If you want to have fun and enjoy college do not come here. The town of Amherst hates college students, especially UMass ones and do everything in their power to get you into trouble. I am a senior graduating and this school has gone done hill since my freshman year. If I wasn't a senior I'd transfer.
4th Year Male -- Class 2012
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