<p>60%? That’s outrageous! The average is only between 6-8%, right?</p>
<p>I believe KWU is referring to Amherst’s yield. Actually KWU, I believe you were taken off waitlist. You were fortunate in that somehow last year they probably overcompensated in their number of acceptances because they overenrolled in '07. Amherst’s waitlist is obviously not something they hope to use despite the rhetoric from Parker.</p>
<p>oh well, guess i wont be hearing from them ever again. thanks batgirl for sharing that bit of information and congratulations to those who got in. amherst is a lovely school.</p>
<p>…oh well</p>
<p>Kinda glad I didn’t obsess over it I guess. I can rest easy!</p>
<p>Does anyone on the waitlist actually want to go to Amherst? Does anyone know if Amherst over enrolled. Will summer melt take place? Anyone hear anything? This years waitlistees are apathetic or maybe just prefer where they are in.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I’m one of the apathetic ones. I’m going to Williams and am really happy with my choice, and I wouldn’t choose Amherst even if I did get in off the waitlist.</p>
<p>This may have already been said (I skimmed the thread, sorry lol) but I think Williams enrolled exactly what it wanted, meaning it overenrolled a bit, so I’m guessing Amherst probably had the same thing.</p>
<p>Thanks for response.</p>
<p>Son was waitlisted at Amherst, but didn’t accept the spot. I think a LOT of kids were waitlisted all over the place this year because of the hit to the economy in December after applications were in for many. So, there was a real question as to how many wouldn’t accept for financial reasons (perhaps hadn’t applied for aid and needed it or would need more based on current circumstances, etc). And from what I can tell, there isn’t a lot of those concerns playing out, especially at need blind schools that offer to meet full need without loans. Cuz seriously, if your “need” is more than they calculate, you still can get a loan because they won’t have overburdened you with them in the first place. </p>
<p>Anyway… There is the idea of summer melt, but isn’t that calculated in the numbers estimated already? </p>
<p>As for some schools not being in the usual category to reject Amherst for (awkward sentence there), Duke is just a completely different school entirely. This seems more to me like not knowing for sure what kind of school you want to attend and being sure to give yourself more choices in the end (and as your thinking matures).</p>
<p>You know what they say… even if you thought you really really wanted to attend a school, pretty much everyone is at their first choice come october!!</p>
<p>Just unusual that so few have inquired about wait list at Amherst. Also, even Harvard,Stanford, Dartmouth, etc… used wait list. Who accepted spot on Amherst list and why no demonstrable interest? Did EVERYONE get into top choice? Bizarre!</p>
<p>No demonstratable interest, batgirl? My daughter remains quite interested in Amherst. She is not registered on this site, though, because she would rather bicycle 20 miles or read another French novel or learn another flute sonata than obsess over what has been a rather discouraging and uncontrollable process for her. She has less time for fruitless self-absorption than I do. She won’t grouse or whine or beg. Four of her five choices waitlisted her. All are esteemed mid-Atlantic or NE LAC’s, and for all four, fairly gloomy info is being blogged about in College Confidential. She has what Amherst demands, but knew it would be a dart game, up to judgment of the admissions officers and to their recruiting needs of the moment. Some of the other waitlists were a little more surprising. Amherst was not her first choice - actually a very close second, but what difference does that make for her when her #1 (and #3 and #4) choices are all nearly done with waitlistees, or are seemingly not looking for self-motivated and gifted French/Latin scholars with sterling musical resumes on instruments as unexotic as flute, piano, and voice? If only she’d fallen in love with Arabic or Irish Gaelic instead, or bassoon or English horn, who knows? But she loves what she loves. She’s interested, all right - she’d jump at the chance to get into Amherst - but doesn’t assume that posting here would change her odds.</p>
<p>Zaz- I was referring to demonstrable interest from those who post obviously! You can’t possibly think that I think discussing this on CC would make admittance more likely. Further, my comments must be taken within the context of this site, as if you follow the previous two years posts much more discussion took place during the waitlist ‘season’. You sound bitter to me, and frankly your daughter is probably better adjusted to the process than you.</p>
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<p>Instead of devouring French novels (Madame Bovary, anyone?) or practicing an instrument until tears of passionate ecstasy stream from one’s eyes, this might be a good opportunity for introspection and honest self-assessment. Amherst’s pursuit for diversity transcends obscure and wacky talents, and your mockery is a mistaken caricaturisation of its mission.</p>
<p>Zaz – I agree with you, the competition this year was fierce. My daughter also ended up on wait lists at schools we thought she would get into.</p>
<p>KWU – I did not mean to mock Amherst in any way. The skills with exotic languages and more high-demand instruments I cited are all, in fact, found among the class of 2013 in the college that accepted my daughter. I would celebrate students arriving with these talents at the college where I teach. Sorry if you mistook my examples as caricatures. I fully respect the diversity goals pursued by Amherst. Their admissions process clearly leads to a stimulating community of uniquely talented and accomplished students. Admissions agents purposefully blend a wonderful assembly of skills, interests, and personal histories. This is one of the reasons my daughter was so charmed by Amherst.
As their admissions officers explained when we toured, more remarkable students apply to Amherst than they can admit. That my daughter is outstanding enough to admit, but was not selected for the class of 2013, is a source of disappointment for us both, not bitterness. I feel free to ponder the questions: what might have caught an admissions officer’s eye had it been different? What might have earned my daughter an advocate on the committee, or swayed one last fence-sitting vote? That other passions might have been more eye-catching does not make them “wacky.”
She will recover from her discouragement, and will thrive wherever she goes. She is an extraordinarily well-adjusted young lady. (Parental bias acknowledged.) But if two colleges that she loved put her on unpromising waitlists, while she enrolls in a great college that she will have to learn to love over time, I unsheepishly share in her sadness. We both know that she is not alone in this chagrin. Colleges and applicants find ideal mates in one another only some of the time. Millions of youngsters develop zeal for colleges that do not admit them. But my daughter is the only one waking up sad in my house this spring.</p>
<p>Where did your daughter get waitlisted at, and where does she attend to study?</p>
<p>Zaz: That post was strikingly poetic, I really liked it! “…love over time, I unsheepishly share in her sadness. We both know that she is not alone in this chagrin.”
I mean, that sounds like a bona fide poem to me.
Well done!</p>
<p>(sorry, I’m a sucker for well-written/poetically phrased wordings of things)</p>
<p>I agree! I feel sorry for your plight. I mean your daughter’s plight. Truthfully, Zaz you are correct, even the insightful, ubiquitous(spelling?) KWU was waitlisted last year at Amherst. He certainly deserved acceptance during regular decision. With the definition of deserved up for debate. Good luck!</p>
<p>Someone I know was just accepted off the wl at Amherst recently. He got into Harvard, Yale and Columbia. He’s gonna accept Amherst’s offer.</p>
<p>Great for him! What does just got accepted off waitlist mean? Yesterday(Friday)? They said they would not be using list this year, I guess they make exceptions for Harvard acceptees.</p>
<p>Oh earlier than that. But I’m not sure the exact day.</p>