Hey @MustWinLottery, just wondering where you got those waitlist statistics. I’ve been looking around online and can’t find any concrete information about the waitlist, just predictions
Amherst common data set
Still hard to believe this, but I was accepted! I’m an international student, and I was told that the acceptance rate was much lower for us.
4.3W GPA, 33 ACT, great EC’s (founder of NGO, lots of leaderships, 1000 hrs of community service, intern at international organization).
I seriously thought I wasn’t going to get in because I chose the option to send an already written and graded essay, so I thought they would see it as lack of interest on my behalf
Compared to the others (e.g Williams), my son’s waitlist letter from Amherst is extremely nice. Wondering if others waitlisted at Amherst got the same kind of letter:
After long and careful consideration, the Admission Committee has decided to place your name on the wait list for
Amherst College’s Class of 2019. This is not meant to be a consolation prize; to the contrary, it confirms that the Admission Committee has great respect for your accomplishments and ambitions. If you wish to keep open the possibility of attending Amherst, you must complete and submit the online Wait List Response Form, available at www.amherst.edu/admission/waitlist by April 24, indicating that you would like to remain active on our
wait list. If a space becomes available after May 1, you will be among those we will consider for a place in the first-year class. Should you decide not to remain on our wait list, we ask that you notify us of that, as well, by completing and submitting the Wait List Response Form accordingly. Although I cannot forecast the decisions of those to whom we have offered admission, I am hopeful that we will be using our wait list this year. Every year brings different results, however. By responding affirmatively through the online Wait List Response Form, you will remain a viable candidate, should space become available. Meanwhile, the best course of action is to consider all your other options and to let us know if Amherst remains the college of your choice. Additional information about the wait list process is available through the “Frequently Asked Questions” section at the above link.
I congratulate you on your fine record of accomplishment, which deserves a much more fitting recognition than I can
provide right now. I hope you will remain interested in Amherst and that you will choose to hold a place on our wait list. I hope also that I may ultimately have the opportunity to offer you admission to the Class of 2019.
Trying not to read too much into the tealeaves.
Accepted. Very cool
@StriversParents Yeah I received the same waitlist letter.
@striversparent me too i thought it was very considerate.
@striversparents and @doncarlos1710 yeah, mine was the same too. But I thought it was really thoughtful and sweet. Duke’s was more indeterminate and not quite as sincere I’d say.
Just wanted to add an update. My son was accepted to Harvard off the wait list. He really did love Amherst, and he was very upset when he was rejected. The wait list does drag out the process and increase the anxiety. But after all is said and done, we are all thrilled! What a long strange trip its been