Thanks for sharing your strong stats! Could you please elaborate a little more about your ECs? What leadership positions do you hold in CS or other activities? My son is in 8th grade. He enjoys many activities, sports, music, BSA, also likes math and coding. I am wondering what ECs would be more valuable for college applications and how should he start planning. Could you please share some of your experiences? Thanks!
Yes, my son did too which came out of the blue after he was accepted in early December to college of Humanities/Fine Arts. Have been trying to get information ā everything Iāve read says Isenberg is a great school.
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any word on if thereās going to be decisions released this week?
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Raised a query in Twitter several hours ago. Will paste the response once they reply.
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I hope so!!! keeping those fingers crossed 
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Has everyone that has heard from umass Amherst been an acceptance so far? Any rejections?
I asked the same thing a while ago. Seems everyone that has posted was accepted. I havenāt heard of anyone who knows of anyone that was rejected.
UMass Amherst allows students to choose three majors when they apply. So, even if students donāt get accepted into their first-choice major, they have two other choices before being rejected from the college
So they donāt have straight rejections? They accept but at a different major?
Acceptance rate is 65%. This implies a third of the applicants are not accepted.
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Thatās what Iāve readā¦ the comment confused me.
I asked the admissions office if rejections are included in the batches, and I was told Yes. So maybe no news is still good news.
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No news is no news. We will know soon enough.
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No. But Iād be interested in learning more. Whatās the +1 - MBA?
Do they all get to choose three majors when they apply? I only see options to choose two majors, but I could be mistaken
Does anyone know when the next batch will be released?
tomorow probably. the past pattern is very tuesdy
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Thanks!
Middle math activities like the Art of Problem Solving, high school math activities like Promys, Canada USA Math Camp, Ross Math Camp, various Hackathons, research in CS in the school if it is available, some app development together with friends if the school doesnāt offer research opportunities etc. would be helpful. Depending on what the school offers, and how comfortable your son is, you can even take AP CS A in 9th grade. For top CS programs, math is the more important credential schools look at. At least Calc BC by the time you finish 12th grade. Preferably also Linear Algebra, Discrete Math and Number theory if your school offers. Depending on how advanced your son is, he can also participate in USACO on the computing side, and the appropriate competitions on the math side. For example, this is not a bad resource on the math side: Evan Chen ā¢ Napkin (v1.5)
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It seems I got confused with another college application.
My DD confirmed UMass Amherst had two 2 majors - first and second choice
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