Amherst College Transfer Thread 2018-2019

@BruiserBrigade What??? Was this an early acceptance?

@BruiserBrigade Firstly, congratulations! That’s super exciting. Will you be committing to Amherst?

I didn’t realize that they’d be sending out admittances already, though, so that is a bit surprising. Would you mind describing what happened and what you saw? Did they send you another email after the one that was already sent about the admissions timeline telling you to check your portal? Or was it just that one admissions timeline email and then you happened to check your portal?

Haha sorry for so many questions! Not trying to grill you, just trying to understand.

Seriously, though, congratulations! Super exciting.

I received a fairly standard email indicating there has been an application status update. From there I could view the update in the portal, which contained my acceptance letter.

And I am still undecided but leaning towards Pomona currently as I was also accepted there as a transfer. It will definitely be a hard decision to make!

@BruiserBrigade Congratulations on your acceptances!
Are you transferring from a CC or a big university?
Also, when do you receive the acceptance letter?

@baalayien I have asked the coordinator for international recruitment and he told me that, typically, the international transfer student admission rate is about 2%.

@yypfalllaan Let’s hope we’re part of that 2% this year!

@BruiserBrigade Congratulations!

Hey @BruiserBrigade Congrats!! When did you apply?

Have any of you heard back from Amherst?

@yypfalllaan Nope! Haven’t heard back from most schools yet.

Hi all! I’m late to the party, but I’m applying as a transfer too.
Stats:
ACADEMICS:
~CA CC student. I graduated two years early from high school to attend (grad. with CHSPE).
~3.8 in a competitive prep school I attended freshman year, 4.0 So/Ju/Se years homeschooled, 4.0 in college
~Political Science major
~I’ll graduate with an AA-T at the end of this semester, IGETC certified
~Graduating in three semesters instead of four, which means…
~Heavy courseload (24 units this semester)
~No test scores (not required)

                   ECS:

~On campus clubs: drama club, environmental club, book club (no leadership)
~Off campus clubs: founder and chair of an officially recognized young democrat club ('17-'18)
~Organized protests and voter registration sessions.
~Over thirty leading roles in theater productions ('09-'17)
~Runner up in HS ‘poetry out loud’ competition (I got to be on TV which was p cool)
~Fourth level Dressage rider, won first in a few local competitions (? a lot of time '11-'18)
~Lots of theater camps and other various camps but eH

                 VOLUNTEER WORK:

-Various dem. clubs, functions, galas, fundraisers, protests, etc. (50+ ish hours)
~Theater tech. work (100+ hours '14-'17)

                  WORK:

~Internship with City Manager’s office (120 ish hours '17-'18)
~Internship with City Councilor (80 ish hours '17-'18)
~Summer camp teacher (60 hrs '17)
~Horse Trainer (30 hrs '16)
~Directors aide/helper idk (30 hrs '12)

                 AWARDS / RECOGNITION:

~Dean’s highest honors all semesters of college (hopefully this one too)
~Honor roll/Gold cord student in Freshman year (unsurprisingly, not in homeschool tho lol)
~Excellence in the Humanities grant from my college
~Runner up in school poetry out loud HS fresh. year
~A few blue ribbons for dressage
~HS prestigious theater award fresh. year

               APP. MATERIALS:

~Essays: pretty good I think. Writing is one of my strong suits, but I am obviously in no position to talk about myself
from my biased position ;p
~Rec. Letters: I think these might be one of the best bits. Got one letter from the City councilor who also happens to
be my English teacher at college and also one from my guidance counselor who I also took a pers. development
class with, both know me and my experience and work very well.
~Additional rec. letter: I also got an additional rec. letter from my other employer (the City manager), I read this
particular letter and it was super nice and very positive.
~Submited a résumé for work + theater so that schools could get a better sense of the breadth of my theater exp.

            POTENTIAL HOOKS (?idk??):

~Graduated early
~Homeschooler
~Two moms (which I discuss in my Com. app. essay)
~First gen. (one mom did grad. community college, but I found out that doesn’t count)

             APPLIED/DECISIONS:

~Schools I’ve applied to: Amherst, Brown, Chapman, Colby, Cornell, Mount Holyoke, Pitzer, Scripps, Smith, George
Washington, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC, Wellesley, Wesleyan
~Accepted: UCSC + regents scholarship, UCSB, Chapman + Trustees scholarship, UCLA
~WL: none so far
~Regected: none so far

I am so excited for all of us. In general, this is just such an exciting/heart wrenching/beautiful/terrible time to be alive. GL to all!

Hello everyone! @AGoodFloridian you really are everywhere on CC lol!!! How is the college process going for you? Have you been accepted anywhere?

And I have also applied to Amherst. I’m currently at a CC. I have a 3.69 GPA at the moment which isn’t too great. I used to have close to a 3.9 last fall but one class–literally ONE class-dropped it to around a 3.66 (it was a C++ coding class, which I thought wouldn’t be too bad, but oh was it bad. I ended up getting a C. And considering the fact I will be a sociology–hopefully political science double major–my brain does not function like cs students lol). And I also began working full time too during that semester I took the C++ class. I love that I get one C and my GPA drops 0.3 points, then I get all A’s the next semester and it goes up 0.03. Go figure.

I still currently work and intern 30-40 hours a week, so I hope Amherst considers the fact that I practically have no free time and have been working hard to survive and get into Amherst!

@hopeful112 Hey there! I got my first acceptance in over three years, so that’s a reassuring thing hahaha- hard work and an unhealthy amount of obsession (or determination, whatever angle you want to look at it) definitely helped. Got into Rice the other day, one of my top choices, so I’m super thrilled. Got a few more college decisions coming up, so these are exciting times.

Amherst has a tradition of taking in nontraditional students- and many of those work full time for whatever reason, so your circumstances aren’t too uncommon and won’t jeopardize you in any way.

@AGoodFloridian That’s awesome I’m happy for you!! And yes Amherst considers CC students over transfers from top LACs or Ivy leagues, which is great! Crossing my fingers.

Please tell me i’m not the only one trembling at every email they get

@baalayien Haha, no! I feel like I’m a ball of nerves too!

@Lalabunny Yay! Decisions came out on the 5th last year. Can’t even think straight anymore!!

@baalayien Oh really? Are you excited?

Hey guys, did you all get the May 11th email? Also, do you think if we don’t get a status update before that day, it means we are rejected?

@Lalabunny I’m just very nervous because I’ve wanted this for a very long time hahaha. Have you applied elsewhere?

@jerrythemouse I went through previous threads and it seems like everyone gets a status update. Not sure though. I’m assuming they communicate a rejection somehow though.