Saw that there wasn’t a RD discussion thread for Amherst. I applied through QuestBridge. Did anyone else?
I applied to Amherst as well. I applied through Common app though.
I wish you the best of luck!
Has anyone gone on their portal to look at financial aid? I went on the admissions portal, just because I check them now and then. We had a paragraph added saying we could get a log on for the financial aid portal to check to see if Amherst has everything from us. I clicked on it and was given an email with our sons name and “23 amherst” in it. When I used it to set up the financial portal log in, I got into that portal and it says things like “We look forward to working with you and your family during your time at Amherst?” Huh?
Can anyone else confirm that their portal says that too? In the FAQ section on Amherst’s website, it says that only applicants who applied for aid will get an email about how to access this financial aid portal. We did not apply for aid and did not get an email. I only ended up logging in because I noticed the new paragraph on the application portal and I clicked on it. Thoughts? Does anyone else’s financial aid portal use that wording?
If you did not apply for aid, you shouldn’t worry too much about it. I applied for aid and my financial aid portal has “We look forward to working with you and your family during your time at Amherst?”. I don’t think this is anything significant.
That’s some seriously bad wording. Makes it sound like S19 will be a student there.
@TheJoon did they also assign you an email with “23” in it and it’s an Amherst email account?
And at the top of S19’s financial portal is says it’s the “Amherst College Office of Financial Aid Student Portal”. Tha’ts weird too as he’s not a student, he’s just an applicant. Just wondering if I’m reading too much into this or if it’s at all possible that this might be a hint he’s in.
It says in FAQs that you are only assigned an account if you are an applicant requesting financial aid. Since we checked the “no” box on the CA and didn’t send them FAFSA or CSS, it seems odd that he has an account on the financial aid portal.
@homerdog I hope it’s a good sign. :-SS
@Meddy lol. Me too. Won’t know for another five weeks I guess! Still looking for an RD candidate to compare notes with me!
Looks like I have the same thing on my financial aid portal. I don’t think this means me or your son is admitted. Unfortunately, a lot college like tOSU and UVA assigns you an email even though you are not yet admitted. It is very weird. I think the only hint of admissions would be a likely letter sent by the office of admissions.
Also, I had access to the financial portal since Novemberish, so I definitely think this is not a hint of admission
@TheJoon the admissions portal says applicants only have an log in if they’ve applied for aid but we have not so I don’t know why he has an account. Does the top of your financial aid portal say “student portal” ?
@TheJoon I don’t think having access to the portal means anything if you’ve applied for aid. It says clearly that there’s a portal for those applicants. This portal seems different like one for students. Every bit of wording on it talks about enrolled students. There’s no info at all about applicants. I wish I could take a screen shot and post it so you could see. lol
Yes. We have the same portal…
@TheJoon my financial aid portal says the same thing yours says. I think maybe they need to change their wording since it is very misleading.
@homerdog if it bothers you that much, you could message the admissions office and ask them what’s going on?
Thanks @IlooktoGod
Doesn’t that seem wrong to you as well? S19 has applied to 12 schools and no other school has anything like this on their portal. Why on earth would it say We look forward to working with you during your time at Amherst when 9/10 applicants won’t have any time at Amherst?!
Ikr! That’s very wrong and misleading. It might even give someone false hope.
I might email the school about their wording after the decisions are released lol
They are playing with our feelings :///