Rejected! Not disappointed, saw it coming and Amherst isn’t a good fit for me. Congratulations on all who were admitted! And for those of you who weren’t, keep your chin up!
Where do you go to see the decision? I can’t see anything on the portal
@ihatethesouth, go to the acdata portal, click applicants, then admissions decision update is the letter
Rejected, but s didn’t want to go there anyway, so it’s no loss :>
@AnonCanon has the best picture to describe being rejected. I just got rejected but oh well! Swarthmore, Bowdoin, or Middlebury here I come!
Accepted! It’ feels surreal.
Accepted
Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[] ACT (breakdown): 32 (M: 28, Sci: 28, E: 32, R: 36, W: 33)
[] SAT II:
Math I: 600
Chemistry: 520
Biology: 540
(Dont judge lol)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.75
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15%
[] AP (place score in parentheses):
AP World History(4)
AP Lang. and Comp.(4)
AP US History(4)
[] IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load:
Very Challenging
AP Physics I (2nd hardest class offered)
AP Chemistry 2 (1st hardest class offered)
AP Lit. and Comp.
AP Gov. and Pol.
Precalculus(HNR)
Advanced Philharmonic Orchestra(concert)
[***] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
AP Scholar
Presidential Scholar(nominee)
Several Orchestra group based awards
High school/college Book and Philosophy award
Several JROTC ribbons, advanced rank, and awards(freshman year)
Several Honor roll and Principles list award
Outstanding Ambassador2
Outstanding Justice(statewide mock government)
Outstanding Advocate(statewide mock government)[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
JROTC(highest leadership position for freshman year achieved)
National Honor Society(Secretary)
Freshman Orchestra(Assistant Concert Master)
Philharmonic Orchestra(3rd Primary Violin)
Senior Class Officer(Sgt. - in - Arms)
Student Senate
Statewide mock government(Sectional team leader for school)
Statewide mock United Nations(Sectional team co-leader for school)
Beta club
[] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[] Volunteer/Community service:
Out of country volunteer trip
Home aide and translation with ESL parents
Hospital Volunteer
School activity volunteer
Orchestra volunteer
(very large amount of total hours over 4 years)
[] Summer Activities:
Summer volunteering trip
[] Essays:
Very strong and personal (wrote about hardships of growing up ESL and immigrant)
Wrote optional essay about why I am more than just
[] Teacher Recommendation:
AP Physics I teacher: Fairly weak, only knew me for one year and it was short and he even misspelled my
name
AP World History teacher: Very strong, knew me for long time and sponsor for clubs
[] Counselor Rec:
Very strong, knew me for a long time and everything was positive
[] Additional Rec: N/A
[] Interview: N/A
[] Supplementary Material: N/A[/ul]
Other[ul]
[]Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[] State (if domestic applicant): KY
Country (if international applicant): N/A
[] School Type: Public College Preparatory(very large and challenging compared to other schools)
[] Ethnicity: West Indian
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): $30,001 - $60,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/li]ESL, ESL parents, frequent mover, many family responsibilities, strong competitive school environment[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths:
Very strong essay, well rounded in all areas, many responsibilities and difficult classes in a difficult
school
[] Weaknesses: Weak test scores, lower level GPA, no visits, no interview, one weak recommendation
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Likely the fact that I was well rounded and had an engaging story and expressed that story in an engaging
and personal form. I also used many creative analogies to show my creativity.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Vanderbilt, Amherst
Waitlisted: N/A
Rejected: MIT, Yale-NUS, Northwestern, USC
Waiting on: UPenn, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard,
Yale, Cornell, Brown, Columbia, Princeton.[/ul]
Congrats to everyone who got accepted! Goodluck with everything!
Can any waitlisted applicant please post (or PM) his/her decision letter?
Mine is worded in a very positive tone, and I really want to know whether all the waitlisted candidates received the same message.
Congrats to everyone who got accepted, and good luck to everyone! My D was accepted and invited to be a Schupf Scholar. Does anyone know anything about this program?
its generic
Rejected (international student) 
SAT I: 2370 (CR: 800, M: 800, W: 770)
SAT II: Lit 800, WH 790, French w/Listening 790
GPA: 45/45 IB Predicted
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank, but estimated 1% out of 350
AP: Human Geo (5), French (5), Macro (5), Micro (5)
Debate (won a few national/international awards, coached another country’s national debate team)
MUN (staffed/helped organized a few conferences)
Field hockey (certified umpire)
Interned with someone who advises the UN security council
School type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Hooks: absolutely none
Well I was pretty disappointed because Amherst was one of my top choices, but I’m still waiting for a few more decisions so I guess there’s still hope
@michigandermom Congratulations!!! You should be very proud of your D.! https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/dean_faculty/funding/schupf
Accepted!!!
So shocked. 3.46 gpa/35ACT… I think a magnificent letter of rec from my English teacher did the trick.
Thanks @TheOtterOne, I am! But to be fair, I was ridiculously proud of her before she even applied to college 
Accepted! What wonderful news, can’t wait to visit and see if I’ll be there in the fall! Congrats to all the other accepted applicants - what a great achievement.
D waitlisted with 2300, 3.98 UW, 790/750 SAT IIs.
She’s struck out at the top-25 LACs she applied to, with one waitlist after another (except for Pomona, which flat out rejected her). Oddly, she’s done much better at top-25 universities, with acceptances at WashU, Rice, Emory, UCB, and UCLA. It’s a crazy process!
I can access my Amherst account, but it won t log into my ac data. I want to check my admission status, but I can’t. Anyone know what to do?
Waitlisted. Upsetting because I was rejected from Swarthmore yesterday.
Congrats to everyone who was accepted!!
I got accepted but now I face a choice between at least Amherst and WashU. I’m still waiting for Ivies next week but having to choose from these two is already a pain in the ass. I was sure I’d fail on Amherst application so I kinda prepared myself for WashU already. Now…
D waitlisted. Last years stats. 1341 offered spot, 600 accepted spot, 61 admitted off list.