<p>The summer melt figures are in and indeed, contrary to early reports, Amherst apparently went to their waitlist for ~48 applicants, rounding their acceptance rate to 14% (compared to 12.8 last year.)*</p>
<p>Other highlights include a record number of students of students color (45%)<a href=“2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com; as well as students receiving Pell Grants (23%).</p>
<p>[Class</a> of 2017 Represents Diversity of Campus | The Amherst Student](<a href=“http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2013/09/04/class-2017-represents-diversity-campus]Class”>http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2013/09/04/class-2017-represents-diversity-campus)</p>
<p>*To arrive at the waitlist figure I subtracted the total number of acceptances published in this week’s Record from the figure published by the NYT The Choice blog last April:</p>