<p>Hey guys. So I got an email from Amherst about applying for one of the DIVOH weekends, which is exciting. The only thing is that I’m upper-middle-class and not really a minority (Middle Eastern, first generation, but that still counts as white.) Should I even bother applying? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Hi Skittsie13. I too recieve the email invitation yeasterday and plan to apply since the application is pretty straightforward and only need a 200 word essay. I am just curious how they will know you are from upper-middle-class or low income, there is no place in application indicating that.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be low income or a racial minority to be invited to the DIVOH. My daughter (who graduated in May) attended. We’re upper middle-class, no financial aid, etc. Amherst defines diversity broadly.</p>
<p>anyone gotten receipt of an application? i sent mine a while back and i haven’t gotten an email from them or anything.</p>
<p>Amherst also looks at geographic diversity - where are you from? If there are few students from Iowa, then someone from Iowa would be diverse. There are many categories of diversity.</p>
<p>I got a confirmation email a few days ago.</p>
<p>choyphin-
Did you email them asking if they received your application, or did they just send you a confirmation?</p>
<p>did you have to sign up to get an application?</p>
<p>Divoh’s definition of diversity means just that. If DIVOH only accepted lower-income, non-white students, it would be heavily skewed and not including a good amount of the population and not diverse anymore. I feel like a lot of people feel DIVOH means more minority which…it doesn’t. When I went to DIVOH, pretty much all kinds of students had been accepted (when I got the invite, I really did go “…since when am I diverse?”). For DIVOH, they try to get a good grasp of every kind of student, I feel like, so it’s definitely worth applying.</p>