Amherst College RD 2023

Homerdog - My D19 applied RD. We submitted FAFSA but not CSS profile. We got an email asking to set up a portal and submit the CSS profile and the associated docs. I think the portal has similar language to yours.

@EganAg I think we didn’t get an email because we didn’t send FAFSA. I just think that wording seems bad. I think they give applicants passwords to the same financial aid system that the students use and that is where the confusion lies,

https://youtu.be/Y-OLlJUXwKU

I was wondering if y’all have this seen this video.

Yes. I’ve seen it. The part where the girl gets admitted after her dad had an affair gives me pause. Not sure why that would be the bump she needs to get in. Hope her app was super strong as well.

homerdog I think they edited some parts out to make the video short however I honestly hope our applications receive more attention and consideration than what was shown in the video.

@homerdog unfortunately I think Amherst is such a small school that there won’t be enough of a sample to figure it out. However, for NC State it became clear that people could figure out a week or two before initial results they could figure out what there email address would be and they were added to the school directory.(NC state emails are first initial,middle initial, first 6 last name @ncsu.edu) Meaning if you knew a current student they could check to see if they could find you.-- all those students who had an email address and university ID were accepted. For Amherst unless you get a lot of people responding it would be hard to know.

I would not be shocked if those accepted (even if not asking for aid) are passed on/given an account with FA office for any future needs.

Everyone got an interview? No interview offered means less chance of being accepted??

According to their website, Amherst does not do interviews.

@homerdog Thanks a lot!

yeah don’t worry about the interview

Does anyone have a tilde mark " ~ " next to a few of their financial aid documents in the fin.aid portal? I know it was a crazy speculation from last year.

@mattm2019 we didn’t apply for aid so don’t have access to financial aid portal. Do you have those marks?

When did kids get those early RD acceptances last year? By email?td

Ugh my DD does have the ~ in front. If I remember correctly the speculation was that it signified they were not getting accepted! :((

@toomanykiddos you looked at last year’s thread and the posters with that mark did not get in?

@homerdog correct. They seemed to have either gotten waitlisted or rejected.

That’s so weird. I wonder why Amherst uses that mark!

@homerdog after look a bit more, it looks like I was wrong and two people who said they had the tilde mark did get accepted. So who knows! :-??
My DD is not a great test taker so her SAT scores are low, but EVERYTHING else is on target. So she (we) are expecting a few rejections- and I’m ok with that. She will make a great student at a school who values the whole person and not just the scores.

I can’t say for sure, but I thought we had the tilde last year. Today, I checked her Financial Aid portal from last year and the documents listed have tildes next to each one. So basically my advice is don’t worry about the tilde 8-|

I almost wish we filed for aid so I could see if S19 has tilds. Lol.