<p>Anyone know what’s the admission rate this year?</p>
<p>Amherst reevaluates if there is a possibility of getting off the waiting list.</p>
<p>I know this is a very hard time for seniors was they are waiting for their results. Or receiving them.</p>
<p>You have to know, there is a great deal of serendipity in this whole process. That’s why the results can seem so strange – got in to more competitive school, rejected from less competitive school, or whatever. </p>
<p>Some of you will be rejected from your top schools, and end up lower down on your list. Several things to know: first, this is not a judgment of your skills, your intelligence or you as a person. When you have thousands of people going for hundreds of spots – and 95% of those people are in the same range of skills – the odds are against you everywhere. No matter your skills, no matter your success. Schools are looking for a student body of wide ranging backgrounds and talents. They’re not going to take all tuba players, or everyone from Idaho. So, if you were counting on your sculpting as pushing you over the top – but they already admitted two sculptors in ED – then it doesn’t help. So again – serendipity.</p>
<p>But I have one other thing to tell you: For most of you, your first choices are based on impressions – how you felt walking through the school, what the students you ran into were like, the cache of the school name, the US News ranking (which is really unimportant), reputation of a particular department. You will find, in the end, that NONE of this matters. All of these schools are the tops in the country. You WILL be happy, wherever you go – unless you don’t let yourself be happy because of grumpiness about your results. You WILL make good friends, you WILL get a top-notch education. </p>
<p>So, my bottom line: Feel good about yourself. You are among the smartest, most talented young people in this country. You are on your way to a great adventure. You will get a great education. And – thought it might be hard to accept this week – you will be happy.</p>
<p>My son was accepted! He was a recruited athlete, but he didn’t commit when the coach asked him to, because of financial aid. So we were surprised he got in.</p>
<p>The wait list is not ranked. If they go to the wait-list, they reevaluate the entire pile AGAIN. If you are wait-listed, and Amherst is your first choice, it is important to let them know that without being a pest. Ask politely if you can speak to your admissions rep, and ask if there is anything lacking in your application. Send updated grades, awards, new activies, and a nice cover letter explaining why Amherst really needs you, and how you will be an asset. If someone from your school or community with some kind of clout, or experience getting people into colleges can call or write a letter, have them do it.DO NOT have your parents do this, you need to do it YOURSELF!
Good luck and take heart.Wait listed means you are extremely qualified, just not lucky.</p>
<p>My S was waitlisted last year, didn’t pursue it because we put all our efforts into Midd-sent a supplement, called, got a college professor who knows him to write a letter urging them to take him, and why.</p>
<p>Please don’t think this is the end of the earth.All the best from the OBD.</p>
<p>Accepted! :]</p>
<p>Blue Purple, Doesn’t it trouble you the slightest bit that Amherst has rejected you and Amherst is ranked lower than Yale?</p>
<p>No, I’m not hinting at anything. I’ve been rejected too and now I’m waiting for Williams and Yale to come out with thier decisions, and I’m hoping you might have something encouraging to say.</p>
<p>Nadash, the acceptance rate is 5.6% this year. Or somewhere around that range. Pretty low in any case.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it was ten percent…</p>
<p>Rainbow candy, Here’s an excerpt from my rejection letter:</p>
<p>‘Rather, that decision is a reflection of the fact that we had a record 8,085 applications from which to select a first-year class of 465 people.’</p>
<p>Now if you calculate using these figures, the rate is 5.75%. So there.</p>
<p>NoonesFool, they will ACCEPT more people than 465, because they know some students will decide to go elsewhere. So I could see the acceptance rate being around 10%. So there. :o)</p>
<p>They admit a whole lot more than the number of people in the class because some of those who are admitted go elsewhere. For example, last year, 1216 were admitted.</p>
<p>I’m just pretty curious regarding admission rates for LACs this year, seeing that almost all rates increased with the economic downturn.</p>
<p>MaineLonghorn 
I see your point. But how much more exactly? Say 60 or 70 students, or even 100 students decide to go elsewhere, EVEN then the acceptance rate is brought up by 1%.</p>
<p>Or are you saying they lie about the figure in the first place and they accept around 1000 students?</p>
<p>My guess: they accept those 465 and waitlist the rest. The acceptance rate flickers only slightly.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/amherst-college/829736-official-amherst-college-class-2014-rd-applicants-103.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/amherst-college/829736-official-amherst-college-class-2014-rd-applicants-103.html</a></p>
<p>I just read this thread. Okay so Amherst accepts more students than the number it actually needs to recruit because not all students might want to go there. Makes sense. But twice the number? That puzzles me. Not all that many students decided not to go? :S</p>
<p>Noonesfool, Amherst did not lie to you. Read your rejection letter again, they did not say they accept only 465, that is the number that will be in the class. The number that Nadash stated of 1216 being accepted last year is correct, however it might be slightly larger this year since they are expanding the class size by 20 or 30 spots (I can’t remember the exact #.)</p>
<p>cross posted with noonesfool</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.amherst.edu/admission/apply/firstyear/enrollment[/url]”>https://www.amherst.edu/admission/apply/firstyear/enrollment</a></p>
<p>NoonesFool, 38% of those admitted choose to attend, so the acceptance rate should be around 11% this year.</p>
<p>Noones, Amherst’s yield rate was 38% last year (I think) which meant that they had to accept 1200+ kids to fill 460 spots.</p>
<p>According to the Amherst Common Data Set for last year (Class of 2009-10) only:</p>
<p>7679 applied - about 950 more woman than men
1227 students were accepted (about 59 more women than men) (16% Acceptance)</p>
<p>Of the 1217 who were waitlisted, 562 put their names on the list, but no one was eventually accepted last year.</p>
<p>Of those 1227 accepted, 467 enrolled. (7 more women than men) (38% Yield)</p>
<p>(key thing to note from last year at least - they waitlist an almost equal number to those accepted).</p>
<p>considering its been like…a couple of days since they sent out acceptance/rejection/waitlists, i figure there’s no official numbers yet.</p>
<p>but since they have the same number of spots this year as last year (465), then it would make logical sense to assume that they accepted the same number of ppl as last year…1227, according to Modadunn. </p>
<p>There were 8065 applicants or something this year. if you do a little division you get 15%…about the same as last year? of course thats only assuming that admissions assumed the same matriculation rate as last year</p>
<p>The admissions rate was about ten percent. You’ll see when the data is released/</p>