<p>I just don't want to be deferred. In or out. Plus, I applied ED because I don't want to fill out, pay for, and wait for the results of other applications. Not to sound too neurotic, but does anyone have a guess as to WHAT TIME on Friday they'll be mailing out the letters? Hopefully it's earlier in the day so that us New Englanders might get the results on Saturday!</p>
<p>Would you rather a be told you are not good enough by an LED screen or a 8 x 11.5 sheet of paper?</p>
<p>Probably the screen, if it were sooner : D</p>
<p>From what I've learned, the letters will be ready to go on Thursday and will be mailed out first thing Friday morning. The only students who will be notified via electronic media will be international students and they should have their notifications by the end of the day Friday EST. So based on where you live you may know something with saturday's mail.</p>
<p>I would rather be told I'm not good enough by a screen.</p>
<p>I would rather be told I am good enough by a sheet of paper.</p>
<p>If that makes sense.</p>
<p>That'd be good. Who's your insider source? :)</p>
<p>I went right to the source of our stress...Admissions! The only qualifier they gave me was they couldn't guarantee when everyone would receive them.</p>
<p>Nice work, man! That takes away a little of the stress.</p>
<p>I know that nobody can be certain, and I don't want to start a trend, but I'm going insane.</p>
<p>I'm in a very small town in central NY. Is there any chance I could hear on Saturday, or am I doomed to wait until Monday?</p>
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<p>Aw, I felt so bad when I read those words!
Please keep in mind that, by reputation, Amherst is a bit "cool" to ED as a concept. They were leaders around 8 years ago, along with Harvard, to try to get everyone to drop it completely, but they couldn't get enough Ivies and top LAC's to agree. The then-President said their thinking was the ED put a great strain on the junior year, and also was hard on low and middle-income applicants who might not hear about things until later on in their high school years. </p>
<p>I'm a parent of an Amherst ''05, so I'm talking about December, 2000. Word then was that
Amherst kept the ED's to some legacies, URM's, Olympians and the like. But unless there was a fear a person would be taken away by another great school, their inclination, EVEN IF THEY LIKE YOU, A LOT, is often to defer.</p>
<p>Especially at Amherst, a deferral shouldn't ever be viewed as a rejection of your worth to them, your possibilities as a great student--either there or elsewhere. To feel more bad than the situation suggests is to make yourself extremely miserable, instead of just sad that you didn't hear sooner.</p>
<p>Really, I know this is a long night, but please keep this in mind. In case your message says "Defer" you might indeed make it in April, or not. But either way, it doesn't mean you don't belong there. "Reject" means they don't perceive it as a fit, now or ever, but "defer" means exactly what the word says. They want to consider you, but later, not now.</p>
<p>"Amherst kept the ED's to some legacies, URM's, Olympians and the like."</p>
<p>I am a legacy. And they don't reject legacies ED. The worst thing they can possibly do to me is a deferral then rejection. So I don't view a deferral as, "you're on the line. We'll consider you in RD." I view a deferral as, "You suck. If we could slap you, we would. But we can't, so we'll have to stick with the harshest thing we can do to you."</p>
<p>So in this case "defer" could just as easily mean "kind[er] rejection"</p>
<p>Thanks for the support though :)</p>
<p>im not a legacy, but i think being deferred will be pretty rough. since it will be the first response i hear from any college, i just feel like itll be getting off on the wrong foot.....also, just out of curiosity, how many people posting on this thread are legacies?</p>
<p>According to one of friends, they are only MAILING it out on the 15th. Which means earliest notification would come around Wednesday... Can anyone confirm or debase the validity of his statement?</p>
<p>i think they're just saying that b/c it's the official date. i'm pretty sure they mail them tomorrow morning</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted ED two years ago and I recall the letter arrived around the 12th. We live in California. Her best friend who lived in New York heard several days prior to this date (she was also accepted ED). It's hard when you're on the West Coast to have to wait those extra days. Best of luck to all of you. Amherst is an AMAZING College. It was such a blessing for my daughter to be accepted ED and not have to deal with RD and more applications, essays, waiting, etc.</p>
<p>i wish Amherst was just a regular college and not obscenely selective</p>
<p>i wish Amherst would accept me :-P</p>
<p>Question about ACT:</p>
<p>Is a 32 English/Writing combined score going to hurt me at all? I normally wouldn't think so, but they'll see I got a 36 in English, so they'll know I bombed that essay (got an 8). They won't see however, that the first time I took the ACT I got a 12/12 on the essay. :/</p>
<p>3.7 GPA, 2180 SATS is SOOO average.
i NEED to find out saturday.</p>
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<p>If I happen to not find out until after the 15th, can I still do pre-ap stuff to Middlebury (ED 2), which has a Dec. 15 deadline for that?</p>