According to US News & World Report Best Colleges 2010, Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., was founded in 1793. It is ranked No. 1 in liberal arts and has 1,997 undergraduates. In Fall 2008, 17 percent of applicants were accepted.
According to sports.espn.go.com, Williams and Amherst have been rivals since Zephaniah Swift Moore abandoned Williams in 1821 with a few professors, students and a few library books, to start what is now Amherst College.
According to StateUniversity.com, famous alumni include William Bennett, a former secretary of Education; James A. Garfield, the 20th president; and Arthur Levitt, a former SEC chairman.
US News & World Report Best Colleges 2010 states Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., was founded in 1821. It is ranked No. 2 in liberal arts and has 1,697 undergraduates. In Fall 2008, 14.8 percent of applicants were accepted.
According to StateUniversity.com, famous alumni include Calvin Coolidge, 1885, the 30th U.S. president; Stansfield Turner, 1945, a former director of the CIA; and author Scott Turow, 1970.
US News & World Report Best Colleges 2010 reports that Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., was founded in 1831. It is ranked 13th in liberal arts and has 2,772 undergraduates. In Fall 2008, 27.2 percent of applicants were accepted.
According to StateUniversity.com, famous alumni include actress Dana Delany; Jay Levy, a noted AIDS researcher; and Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems.