True or False: The hardest thing about Amherst is getting in

kwu
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:14:19 +0000

“Accurate,” yes. Academically speaking, you would have to be willfully and grossly negligent to merit 100 percent dismissal. In the event that one becomes academically delinquent, even then, the College maintains generous readmission policies.

The Writing Center, the Quantitative Center, Peer Tutoring, deans, professors, professional counselors, peer counselors, etc., etc.

The vast majority of Amherst students do not even contemplate such a worst case scenario.

In short, you will be okay, unless you are hellbent on not being okay.

Unrelated note: there are many kinds of “smarts” that the admission committee considers.