<p>I’m applying for this fall and I’m a little nervous about the whole process. Has anybody here transferred to Amherst, specifically from a community college? Did you submit test scores? Were they liberal with awarding transfer credit?</p>
<p>If anybody can answer these or has any general advice pertaining to Amherst please feel free to share :)</p>
<p>I didn’t, but a really good friend of mine did it last semester. She had an ok GPA from HS (3.4) and her GPA in CC was a 3.9. She was also the president of the Science Club. She got all classes transferred except for the lower maths (which she complained tons). I really don’t know about test scores (although if it’s really necessary I can ask her). She’s liking it a lot so far and she also says classes are a breeze! Good luck!</p>
<p>Note: Amherst is actually one of my top choices when I decide to transfer. do tell if you get in!</p>
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<p>I’m glad your friend is enjoying Amherst. What classes is she taking that would be “a breeze?”</p>
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<p>I transferred from a CC. I did not submit test scores. Credits from a liberal arts-esque curriculum are generally accepted. Courses having to do with mathematics below Calculus, engineering, finance, and accounting are generally not accepted. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t say “classes are a breeze”. I find most of my courses challenging in one respect or another – a good thing too because, had they not been, it would have been a big waste of time transferring.</p>
<p>I also transferred from a CC. I did submit test scores, though I think my scores were just at the point where they neither helped nor hurt me in the admissions process. My recommendation would be, if you’re not pleased with your score, don’t submit it; if your score is closer to the upper end of the mid-range scores accepted by the Freshman applicants, then this will likely help your application and you would be well-served to submit your scores. </p>
<p>In terms of transfer credit, jaykoblives covered pretty much everything. One more thing to be aware of is that Amherst does not accept credit for courses taken online. </p>
<p>I know how nerve-wracking the whole transfer process can be- especially to schools like Amherst, which are “safeties” to no one. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions and/or want more specific information or insight. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Excellent information everybody, thanks! I’m afraid I would have quite a few classes not transfer over then (I have a few business classes, two maths before calculus, and two online classes :() and I’d probably be a sophomore - although maybe I should worry about getting accepted first haha.</p>
<p>Would either of you that transferred from a CC mind sharing your stats, either here or via PM so that I can have an idea of where I stand? Or if that’s too personal would you mind commenting on how my stats measure up? </p>
<p>4.0 (will have 67 credits completed after this semester)
30 ACT / 2030 SAT - recommend submitting?
recs and essays will be good IMO
ECS: Phi Theta Kappa, another honors society, a business club, tutoring, two part-time jobs
HS stats are bad though and I actually have a GED - this will be explained in an essay</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>I’m applying for this fall from a community college as well. I haven’t heard anything yet, but here’s my stats if you’re curious:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 (with an average of ~18 credits per term, primarily math, science, foreign languages)
Will have a bit over 60 semester hours by Fall
Never took the ACT/SAT, so did not submit.
My essays are good, I think. My recs are amazing.
PTK member, I help teach Spanish 101/102/103, and work at the college. Also an EMT-Basic.
Horrible HS GPA, explained in essay.</p>
<p>Our stats look fairly similar. I have read that Amherst is very supportive of community college students…so here’s hoping!</p>
<p>Good luck to you! PM if you want, we can work ourselves into frenzies together while waiting for decisions. =)</p>
<p>I’m going to give Amherst another go. Applied last year, but was rejected =( I go to the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY and my stats are in this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/860798-wellesley-fall-2010-transfer.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/860798-wellesley-fall-2010-transfer.html</a></p>
<p>I did retake my SATs and started getting really involved in ECs and internships this winter and spring. I’m applying for sophomore transfer. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>did anyone transfer who did not go to a CC?</p>
<p>My younger D is another Macaulay Honors Student at CUNY (Brooklyn College) who is applying to transfer for Fall 2010.</p>
<p>“did anyone transfer who did not go to a CC?”</p>
<p>22 transfer students were accepted in Fall 2008.
10 of them were from community colleges.
1 was from a top college.</p>
<p>thanks–does that mean it’s even more impossible to get in from a top college or just that it’s less common for students from those colleges to apply?</p>
<p>also, where did you find those stats?</p>
<p>I’m a student at the College.</p>
<p>I’m applying from a public state school, and getting giddy with waiting lately. How are you guys feeling about it?</p>
<p>“did anyone transfer who did not go to a CC?”</p>
<p>I’m transferring from a HUGE public university. I almost feel like I am at a disadvantage because Amherst seems so friendly towards CCs… yikes. Anyway, random question: It says on Amherst’s website that they’ll release transfer decisions around June 2. This seems extremely late compared to other schools. Anybody know if the release date was this late last year? I was kind of hoping that the school would give us a nice surprise in the mail in, say, late April ;)</p>
<p>Yes, I am wondering if the ISI Guide for 2010-11 is correct in giving Amherst College the Red Light for professor bias and leftest liberal ideology. I am looking for a college that delivers intellectual curiosity of its students, greater political diversity in the student body, and critical thought and inquiry. Does this school avoid many of the infusions of political correctness or multicultural dogmatism that would interfere with academic life…to the extent that students are not themselves, especially with politics, for fear of persecution in the classroom by other students and professors?</p>
<p>^ From an Amazon review of the book.</p>
<p>1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely biased, January 27, 2010
By Michael Bess “michael” (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Choosing the Right College 2010-11: The Whole Truth about America’s Top Schools (Paperback)
If you are one of those viewers of Fox News who accepts its self-characterization as “fair and balanced,” and if you believe Rush Limbaugh is the Messiah, then this book is for you. It perpetuates all the extremist right-wing myths about universities and professors, providing highly selective, biased, and tendentious evidence for its preposterous assertions. I am a political moderate and centrist who has been teaching in higher education for 20 years, and if you do decide to buy this book then I urge you to view its assertions with a healthy dose of critical skepticism (just as I believe you should do for an extreme leftist book).</p>
<p>–</p>
<p>Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Vassar, Haverford–all receive “red lights.” However, not a single Ivy League school with the exception of Brown–surprise, surprise–receives a “red light.” They get off with a “yellow light” because the author is nasty enough but not so bold as to threaten this group of elite universities.</p>
<p>You can feel comfortable voicing your opinion at Amherst, and there are professors at Amherst who teach according to conservative ideologies, although they are in the minority.</p>
<p>Frankly, however, you will not find political diversity in the nation’s best universities, whether it is among professors or students:</p>
<p>[FrontPage</a> Magazine - Inside the Mind of an Ivy League Professor](<a href=“http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22992]FrontPage”>http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22992)</p>
<p>Yea I would agree with kwu in his assessment of “Choosing the Right College” the only schools that were actually praised by the author were Christian institutions. Every college that received a red light is worth looking at.</p>
<p>So is it more difficult for non-CC students to go to Amherst? I applied to transfer from Smith College (there are actually quite a few Smithies applying to Amherst) and I’m just wondering what the criteria for someone like me to get in would be.</p>