Amherst College to Extend Need-Blind Admission Policy to International Students

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<p><a href=“https://cms.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2008/04/node/44842[/url]”>https://cms.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2008/04/node/44842&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Old news… but yeah baby! Another great LAC made even more accessible to internationals.</p>

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<p>Quote:The change, which will take effect during the 2008-09 admissions cycle, makes the school one of just eight colleges and universities in the United States to offer such a consideration to applicants from other countries.</p>

<p>Are there really only eight colleges and universities in the US that offer need-blind admission? Kind of thought there were more…most of the ivies etc…</p>

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<p>yep, only 8, for international students: Harvard Yale Princeton Dartmouth MIT Williams Middlebury Amherst. Only HYPD are need-blind among the Ivies.</p>

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<p>Amherst were already very generous to intels…i don’t think it will have that large an effect but do hope more colleges follow suit</p>

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<p>there will probably be a pretty large boost in Amherst’s international applicant pool next year - admission will get more competitive</p>

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<p>News update, Dartmouth is going to revert to a need based policy from next year onwards… I guess one in another out. So we’re still stuck with only 8 institutions that have a need blind admissions policy towards internationals. Sigh!</p>

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<p>Is the dartmouth news true? haha</p>

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<p>i can’t find any news on it. could you paste us a link or something?</p>

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<p>I thought DM just started need-blind this year?</p>

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<p>i doubt dartmouth would do that…they probably thought hard before changing to need-blind for international students so they wouldn’t just revert back so quickly</p>

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<p>If I’m not mistaken, Grinnell used to be need-blind for intels some years ago. Maybe I’m just making this up, though.</p>

<p>I don’t think Amherst’s applicant pool will increase much, it’s high already! And in turn, admit rates are obscenely low.</p>

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<p>^yeah grinnell was need blind for internationals not so long ago (two or so years back i think)</p>

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<p>Yes , it is true about dartmouth. It will be need-blind for international student.</p>

<p>"On January 22, Dartmouth President James Wright announced a major new financial aid initiative, designed to keep Dartmouth accessible to academically talented students regardless of their financial situation and which will extend the College’s need-blind admissions program to all international students as well. " </p>

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<p>NNinj@ says in post #6 that dartmouth has reversed this new policy. but dartmouth has not issued a press release saying so!</p>