Please don’t put this on your Amherst application.
I actually don’t think you will get much traction with this thread. You’ve basically trashed the athletic recruitment process and there are a lot of parents out there who are familiar with the process who will echo @tsbna44 's sentiments. Frankly, if you were a high school senior and you had come here looking for low reaches, Franklin and Marshall would likely have come up in the conversation.