Amherst apps up 17%!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Amherst College
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<p>Applications to Amherst have skyrocket throughout this past admissions cycle, according to the Amherst Student Newspaper, up to 6,400 from the 5,489 they received last year. 128 candidates were admitted during ED, 6,260 are applying RD (including deferred), and if the yield holds from last year, they should admit around 1,000 additional candidates during the Regular round. Dividing the number of spaces by the number of applicants for RD, the acceptance rate should stand at about 16% for this round. </p>

<p>The link for the Amherst Student Article: <a href=“http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~astudent/2004-2005/issue15/news/01.html[/url]”>http://halogen.note.amherst.edu/~astudent/2004-2005/issue15/news/01.html</a></p>

<p>Other interesting tidbits:
ED acceptes had average verbal scores of 714, math of 719.
College is trying to increase socioeconomic, racial diversity on campus, in part through more aggessive recruiting of admitted students.</p>

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<p>im on the run, and perhaps this question is answered in the article, but what was the % admitted ed (as in, what was the ed acceptance rate)?</p>

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<p>Amherst admitted 128 out of the 367 ED candidates, or 35%.</p>

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<p>This year was the best year to do ED by far because no one expected this type of surge. My bets are that it will happen again next year. 17% though, that's amazing!</p>

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<p>siiiiiiick</p>

<p>i'm pro-anythingthatmakesamherstlookgood</p>

<p>haha, but the article's author can't spell "imposed"</p>

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<p>Haha, "impossed." So much for making Amherst look good.</p>

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<p>AHHHH! this is bad news.</p>

<p>thank goodness texas has the 10% rule. hook em longhorns! (not really.)</p>

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<p>10% rule? (0_o)??</p>

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<p>boooooo! lol.</p>

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<p>10% rule- If you are in the top 10% of your high school class in Texas you have guaranteed admission to UT Austin.</p>

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<p>How is the acceptance rate 16%? Dartmouth increased about 8% and they're expecting an acceptance rate of 15%. Both Amherest and Dartmouth had 18% last year, so I think Amherst's would be lower than 16%.</p>

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<p>I think Dartmouth has a higher yield than Amherst, although I would think they would have similar accept rates this year as well (about 15%)</p>

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<p>i thought Dartmouth was expecting 12% acceptance for the RD round?</p>

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<p>just for RD; i was talking about overall acceptance rate. and slipper, i believe dartmouth fills more with ED so their yields should be about the same also.</p>

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<p>I humbly question your 17%... are you sure it's 17%? Looking at this year's data, 6527 people applied (6260 RD + 267 ED), and last year, 5489 applied. That increase is about 20.7%, which is even nicer for Amherst.</p>

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<p>haha, even better.</p>

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<p>yeah and i think the acceptance rate would be even lower</p>

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<p>where do people get amherst gear?</p>

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<p>ajhastings.com ?</p>

<p>im pretty sure that a.j.hastings is a stationary store of sorts really close to campus</p>

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<p>"ajhastings.com"</p>

<p>thats where i bought my shirt when i visited over the summer. no tax. it was sweet.</p>