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03-31-2006, 02:26 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 34
| anyone get flat rejected from willams then get into amherst?
do i have any hope? | 
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03-31-2006, 03:06 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 66
| Undergrad admissions are inherently fairly random, so don't worry too much. Good luck! | |
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03-31-2006, 03:28 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 233
| Broom - My son got an early write from Amherst and likely letter from Midd, in at P'ton, but denied at Swat. So it's all too impossible to figure out. Nothing is for certain. Good luck! | |
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03-31-2006, 04:47 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,026
| One of my daughter's classmates several years ago was accepted at Amherst and rejected outright at williams. But it does not seem to happen very often--usually it is double or single waitlists | 
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03-31-2006, 04:59 PM
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#5 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 7
| waitlisted at Williams, but accepted at Amherst. | |
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03-31-2006, 09:11 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 51
| Me too. I am going to turn down Williams. But I am considering UC Berkeley over Amherst. Any suggestions? | |
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04-01-2006, 03:14 AM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hanoi, Vietnam, all the way to Amherst, MA:-)
Posts: 464
| Williamsucks! Email Amherst and tell them you rejected Wils; they'll be sure to let you in  | |
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04-01-2006, 04:32 AM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 225
| suloshfets:
I personally think that Amherst tops Berkeley in undergrad education in so many ways (class size, research opportunities, etc) and that berkeley is good only for grads. Just my opinion. | |
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04-01-2006, 09:41 AM
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#9 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: California
Posts: 40
| suloshfets:
Berkeley is does not provide a very good education; I have 7 friends going there. I sat in on one of their classes and was greeted by about 500 people; I watched the lecture on a video projection screen. How exciting is that? The campus is large and not nearly as clean as the Amherst campus. Housing is hard to get; I have a sophomore friend who already had to find her own apartment. Just think how far you'll be walking to classes. There are so many people that you get lost; your professors see you as a number and when my friend got sick on the day of her midterm and was in the hospital, the professor wouldn't hear it. Forget about playing a varsity sport or seeing the same people on a daily basis. Forget about starting your own club and actually getting funding to do it. So many of the students at my school got into Berk and it isn't nearly as selective as a place like Amherst. Amherst is absolutly wonderful; you know so many people, have so many opportunities, and the professors often have you to dinner in their own homes. I couldn't imagine being anywhere else! | |
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04-01-2006, 10:40 AM
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#10 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 51
| Thanks, I will take it into consideration. I am from East Coast, and I thought I should broaden my horizon by experiencing the other part of the country. That is also why I am not so disappointed to be on the waiting list at Williams. It is a school in no where. | |
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04-01-2006, 03:14 PM
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#11 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 130
| Suloshfets:
Stop pretending to be me. It's annoying. | |
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04-01-2006, 08:14 PM
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#12 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 14
| that's exactly what happened to me, you definately have hope! | |
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04-01-2006, 08:38 PM
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#13 | | Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: NoVA
Posts: 572
| Williams: waitlisted
Amherst: accepted
I am still shocked at my acceptance. I definitely liked Amherst better ... not that I have visited either one of them yet. hahaha | |
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04-01-2006, 11:41 PM
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#14 | | Guest | Amherst: accepted (early write)
Williams: deferred ED, then waitlisted | |
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04-01-2006, 11:54 PM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Minnesota --> Notre Dame
Posts: 990
| Wow, a lot of ppl waitlisted at williams and accepted to amherst! I'm in that club as well... | |
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