Got accepted! OOS 1470 SAT (superscore) + 18k chancellor’s award
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S25 accepted for nursing! $16k per year scholarship. No honors.
OOS
4.0 UW/4.7 W
33 ACT
7 APs
NMSF
Daughter accepted!
Test-optional
4.3 weighted
All honors, 8 AP classes
Public Health
Yes
I agree, I think Honors College was holistic.
My daughter is OOS, 3.84 GPA UW/ 4.344 GPA W, 1340 SAT, 7 APs, 10 Honors.
Accepted for Architecture, $18,000 Chancellor’s Scholarship, & Honors College
She has leadership positions and awards, and great ECs. Many high level national wins in competitive All Star Cheer for 11 years, Nominated (5 nominees out of over 300+ athletes) for a John Wooden Award for best exemplifying his Pyramid of Success, Art published in HS Literary Mag, Outside private 6 year art curriculum lessons and a win at an exhibition for best portrait in oils. President of her HS art club, very active member in Women in STEM HS club, AP Scholar Award, 4 Board of Education Academic awards, tons of community service projects, fundraisers, etc… through her clubs and her gym, some led and planned by her. Jr Coach for young cheerleaders dedicating over 100+ hours a year to their practices and competitions separate from her own. NHS and National Spanish Honor Society. Essays also reflected and tied to these and the importance of community to her.
Son accepted.
OOS
3.8 UW 35 ACT 8 APs
18k merit, No honors
English major
Good ECs - won’t bore with the details 
He likes UMASS, might be down the list for him b/c of other acceptances but the merit makes it appealing.
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Finally checked the status.
D25 accepted to Isenberg with Honors.
Chancellor Award of 16K/ year was a pleasant surprise.
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Yep. Portal astrology worked. Instate, both kids waitlisted … One for Isenberg (as we had expected)) but another waitlisted for Engineering (mechanical)- bit shocked by that decision … considering acceptance rate is higher for Eng - in 60s. UMass Eng was kid’s top choice and seemed like a high safety/low target for kid as per scoir school profile-- >70% typically accepted from school many with lesser GPA/SAT than my kid past year. Accepted to Pitt Eng and Penn State Eng (hopeful on a few more) so did not expect this. With almost equal instate and out of state acceptance rate for UMass, there seems to be no advantage for instate applicants in terms of acceptance unlike many other states in our flagship cheapest university! Not sure if it has become even more competitive overall this year for UMass! Accepted the waitlist for UMass for both kids but both kids have already warmed up to their other acceptances. Not much hopeful of movement on waitlist before May 1 deadline for acceptances at other places. Good luck to you too.
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Pitt and Penn State are great options! Congrats on those! If it makes you feel better, it is actually easier to get into Binghamton OOS AND OOS applicants get their decisions first. It is actually a disadvantage to be in state (other than tuition of course)
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Agree… We like the options so far. Instate UMass would have been cheaper but our tuition money goes to those who appreciate it 
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In a very smilar boat here. In-state and waitlisted for Mechanical Engineering.
Agreed that Naviance datapoints helped make us hopeful for acceptance.
Something I don’t understand is how UMass Admissions says Engineering has roughly a 30% acceptance rate (granted the video is from 2019, but the numbers have been fairly consistent):
Yet the data says the Engineering acceptance rate hovers in the 60% range:
Oh well, moving on. But it stings to get rejected from your state flagship.
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I feel you. My kid has had a bizarre acceptance cycle. Accepted to schools with harder admits and rejected from schools we thought would be closer to likely. Last night, they were accepted to Clark with big merit and rejected from UMass Amherst. They were rejected from Binghamton (in-state) and then accepted to Union with a full ride. We realize now that schools with a more holistic review process really like my kid, but the bigger state schools are more formulaic with their review. Oh well. Son really loved UMass, but they are already warming to their other options, plus we have a few more to come. Best of luck wherever your kids end up! Pitt is FANTASTIC. We toured and are big fans.
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Yeah… their yield rate is significantly higher with in state despite similar acceptance for in state and OOS despite many OOS offered merit scholarships. it is the complaint of many MA kids too that they are stuck with unaffordable in state colleges and just one affordable UMAss system of which Amherst is most favored yet they don’t favor in state students at all unlike some states.
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Umass Amherst is also big on high GPAs now despite great ECs. They are not even close to a safety school anymore, which surprises people—they’ve become more and more competitive with each passing year. My daughter only applied to a few schools, and this was her number 1 choice, which she made clear in her supplementary essays. The kids in her school accepted EA this year are all in the top 10-15% of her class (I do think Umass-A is somewhat more competitive for EA).
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The few kids accepted from her HS this year for engineering are in the top 5% of her class. My guess is a few will go elsewhere, and umass-a will pull from their waitlist. Last year, 11K waitlisted, and they accepted 1700 from that list.
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My daughter goes to Clark:) She loves it! A full ride to Union is awesome. And yes, it has been a bizarre acceptance cycle to say the least!
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It is hard to parse that with seeing at one’s HS that ~60% get in (for the HS) and more than half the class applies. There were some very high stats kids who didn’t get in - though I always assumed that was for CS/nursing which have SUCH low admit rates at Umass (compared to engineering).
But agree, I think they expect very high GPA above and beyond ECs and such and that they are less “holistic” in approach given the volume of applicants!
My kid was WL, which wasn’t a surprise, for their GPA they were right at line on naviance where there was a mix of admits/WLs/denials.
Also 100% agree anyone not paying attention closely still thinks of it entirely as zoomass and a major safety, which it most certainly is not!
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Seems it is more competitive every year for sure. esp for Eng, business and nursing. My kids say way more waitlist than expected for this year in their school. GPA seems to be most critical factor as SAT score didn’t help us - mid 1400s. I also feel that UMASS policy of putting on waitlist instead of deferral for EA reduces the chances of acceptance. Mid term grades could help some waitlist candidates. Hopefully they look at those when we send it in a week or two and give out some offers to waitlist candidates before May.
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My daughter was waitlisted last night. We were mildly surprised but I guess reading some of the comments here and we applied to the business school which is pretty competitive I see. It wasn’t the top of her list but would have been a big consideration for sure. She still has some good options though, right now here top 2 are Penn State and Indiana but still waiting to hear from a few more. Good luck to everyone and congrats to those that got in!
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My daughter was also waitlisted for Isemberg. Her two best friends got waitlisted last year and got in. Should we give up and move on?