<p>Well, I too applied to Brown, but I’m not sure. I was rejected from Wash U, personally.</p>
<p>I’d like to think that if you get accepted to Amherst, you will also get accepted to Brown, since they do overlap, a LOT. But, the college admissions process is still surprising me, very much.</p>
<p>The admissions websites of schools are particularly lacking since the websites pick and choose what data they wish to publish… This is the admission data from the Amherst College common data set (which almost every school voluntarily fills out) for fall 2009 admission.
<a href=“https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/169038/original/2009%20First-Time%2C%20First-Year%20(Freshman)%20Admission.pdf[/url]”>https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/169038/original/2009%20First-Time%2C%20First-Year%20(Freshman)%20Admission.pdf</a></p>
<p>It’s all there…</p>
<p>Total applicants:
7679 (3368 M, 4311 F)
Total offered admission:
1227 <a href=“584%20M%20%5B17.3%%5D,%20643%20F%20%5B14.9%%5D”>15.9%</a>
Total enrollees:
467 (237 M, 230 F)</p>
<p>Waitlist: yes
Waitlist ranked: no
Number of applicants offered waitlist position: 1217
Number of applicants accepting offer of waitlist: 562
Number of applicants offered admission from waitlist: 0</p>
<p>I thought admission rate was 15.2</p>
<p>Rainbowcandy,</p>
<p>It would be nearly impossible for the admissions rate this year to be 10%. That would imply about 810 acceptances, and a yield of 57%, which would be 50% higher than the historical yield rate (which is about 38%). The admit rate this year will be somewhere between 14.5% and 15.5%.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2130 = 690 M, 740 CR, 700 W, 10E
[</em>] ACT: 31C = 30 E, 31 M, 31 S, 32 R, 9E
[<em>] SAT II: 790 US Hist, 800 Spanish, 670 Math 2, 630 English Lit (oops)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.5 Weighted (I calculated a 3.78 UW)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/79
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 AP US Hist, AP Spanish Lang 4 AP English Lang, World Hist, Euro Hist
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs + Yearbook + Independent Research (class)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction (various UIL, debate, latin, school awrds)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Baseball, Speech and Debate (Secretary), Spanish National Honor Society, National Honor Society, Principal and Superintendents Committee, Model UN, Latin Club, UIL Academics
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Assistant/Photographer to Wedding Photographer
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Elem. Tutoring, HS fish camp, UIL judging
[<em>] Summer Activities: above + UH Engineering camp (MESET), Changing the Face of Math and Science (Rice profs camp, did it twice), Yearbook Camp
[</em>] Essays: Mediocre
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Ok
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[<em>] Additional Rec: Good
[</em>] Interview: NA
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Deferred SCEA?: NA
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended major?: Undeclared
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[</em>] School Type: Top 100 Public, Small
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic: Mexican
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Income Bracket: Approx 75k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: -
[</em>] Weaknesses: -
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: -
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: University of Houston, Texas A&M, University of Texas @ Austin, Rice, Pomona, Amherst, Boston College, Tufts, Georgetown, Dartmouth
Rejected: Yale
[/ul]General Comments: Well all end up at the right school for us. Currently deciding between Georgetown SFS, Dartmouth, and Amherst.</p>