<p>Hey congratulations to everyone admitted Early Decision! We did it! I was hoping to get to know a little about the people I’ll be spending the next four years of my life with. Everyone should post a little something about themselves and you can add anything that you’d like to. I’ll start. </p>
<p>Location:I’m an international student from South Africa although I spent 13 years of my life in Princeton, NJ.
Gender: female
Potential major: Neuroscience or biochem
Sport or interest: I’ll be playing soccer and I’m excited to meet you all. </p>
<p>Hi! I was accepted ED too, and really excited about making the 1000-mile move to Amherst next fall. Congrats everyone!</p>
<p>Location: a little town in the Deep Deep South
Gender: Female
Potential major: English/LJST
Sport/interest: No sports-- writing is a passion though!</p>
<p>A little blindsided by a RD acceptance. I’m really anxious to talk to some of you guys attending next year. PM me!</p>
<p>Location: Southeastern Mass
Gender: Female
Major: English Lit
Interests: writing. Anybody know anything about a literary magazine? Also, work off campus. </p>
<p>I was invited to the Diversity Open House. Wasn’t something I knew about beforehand. I’m not a URM though. My dad makes <50K a year as an exterminator and my mom stays home with my younger siblings, so I assume that’s why I was invited. I also felt like my extracurriculars were nothing special. Not sure how to rationalize my acceptance as anything other than luck. </p>
<p>Lol, my parents make <$40K combined and I feel just the same, my stats are good, just not impressive. I think I might just end up going to Amherst for undergrad (why not?)</p>
<p>Ahh, so excited to get in! I hope to see you guys at the open house. We should all do something so we know who has a college confidential account, haha.</p>
<p>Location: Florida, where the sun is hot the ocean choppy
Gender: Male
Potential major: English
Sport or interest: Super obsessed with journalism, writing and graphic design. I don’t play any sports, but I’d love to play basketball in college. </p>
<p>Admitted RD and offered paid trips to both Notre Dame and Amherst. Still undecided
Location: Nevada
Gender: Male
School Type: Public Magnet
Potential Major: Economics and History
SAT: 2230
GPA: 3.88 out of 4
Class Rank: 13 out of 208
Hooks: URM, Questbridge, lot of extracurriculars with awards and leadership positions, job. </p>
<p>Ds made it in RD also with an offer for a paid trip to Open House.
Location:upstate New York
Gender: Male, caucasion
School Type: under-performing Public
Academic Interests: Chemistry, Music
SAT: 2300, 800chem, 800 bio.
gpa: 4.0 unweighted
rank: 6/425</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you, you sound like a wonderful bunch!</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’m going to Amherst yet, but I was very pleased with the acceptance.
Location: Texas
Gender: Male
Major: econ or poli sci
Interests: probably club sports (rugby, soccer, water polo), writing, and anything outdoors and adventurous. Hot soccer girls can get it, js.</p>
<p>Not sure if I’m going yet (it’s down to Amherst and UVA Echols Scholar at this point), but I’m super excited to just have been accepted!</p>
<p>Location: VA, right outside DC
Gender: Female
Major: Chemistry, probably supplemented by the Culture, Science, and Health certificate
Interests/sports: Long-distance running (currently training for a half-marathon), classical and accompaniment piano, singing, politics. I’ll probably want to join the running club, if there is one, the equivalent of Young Democrats, and maybe try out for a cappella. </p>
<p>also from VA; my daughter’s decision was the same last year. As you know, very different schools in terms of size, housing over the 4 years, distance from home etc. Daughter chose Amherst and is very happy. Faculty in the Chemistry department is awesome; very accessible and helpful during their office hours.</p>
<p>I’m definitely going to the open house! Eleven days away! I’ve never been to the northeast. Sometimes I worry that I won’t fit in up there. ^^ If I like the weekend, then I’ll be part of the 2018 class for sure.</p>
<p>Location: Tennessee, south of Nashville
Gender : Female
Potential Major : Psychology
Sport/Interest : Writing, spoken word, etc. I’m always open to new things.</p>
<p>Hey there, is anyone here going to the diversity open house on April 12? I’m looking to talk to people from low-income backgrounds and/or first generation college students for a radio story. PM me or find me at spekow [at] americanpublicmedia [dot] org. I’ll be there next weekend.</p>
