<p>what is amherst’s ed acceptance rate?</p>
<p>Here is Amherst's Common data set 2003-2004 for the class of 07 (they do not have info posted for class of 08 and hte common data sets for the class of 09 are not released until late october)</p>
<p>Amherst class of 07:</p>
<p>374 applied ED
120 students admitted:</p>
<p>32% admit rate.</p>
<p>Overall 5631 applied
1001 admitted
17.77%</p>
<p>Freshman class consists of 413 student
of the 413 students (considering all ed admits kept their commitment)</p>
<p>of the admitted class 29% of them are ED admits.</p>
<p>hope this helps</p>
<p>Sybbie- Please educate me- What is the Common Data set? Is it a form that the college are required to fill out or unique to Amherst College? Why is it that Amherst's name is not printed anywhere on the form that you provided a link to? I thought that you might know? Thanks</p>
<p>Hi Songman,</p>
<p>The Common Data Set (CDS) initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Thomson Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report. The combined goal of this collaboration is to improve the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in a student's transition into higher education, as well as to reduce the reporting burden on data providers.</p>
<p>This goal is attained by the development of clear, standard data items and definitions in order to determine a specific cohort relevant to each item. Data items and definitions used by the U.S. Department of Education in its higher education surveys often serve as a guide in the continued development of the CDS. Common Data Set items undergo broad review by the CDS Advisory Board as well as by data providers representing secondary schools and two- and four-year colleges. Feedback from those who utilize the CDS also is considered throughout the annual review process.</p>
<p>The CDS is a set of standards and definitions of data items rather than a survey instrument or set of data represented in a database. Each of the higher education surveys conducted by the participating publishers incorporates items from the CDS as well as unique items proprietary to each publisher. Consequently, the publishers' surveys differ in that they utilize varying numbers of items from the CDS.</p>
<p>Those who report data for their colleges are urged to abide by the definitions and the cohorts specified when answering CDS items. They are also urged to use the answers to CDS items when responding to the numerous survey requests they receive, by distributing photocopies of their answers, posting them on their web sites, or by other effective means.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commondataset.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.commondataset.org/</a></p>
<p>You can find the common data set at the school's office of institutional research (some schools Penn, does not release their common data set) </p>
<p>Rich posted a link of the common data sets of other schools that can be found at </p>
<p>Amherst has their common data set broken into sections and you click on the section that you want information for. because it is broken into sections that is why you may not see amherst's name on each section. </p>
<p>Here is the link to the entire common data set for amherst
<a href="http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/cds/2003/%5B/url%5D">http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/cds/2003/</a></p>
<p>General Information</p>
<p>Enrollment and Persistence
First-year Admissions
Transfer Admissions
Academic Offerings and Policies
Student Life
Annual Expenses
Financial Aid
Instructional Faculty and Class Size</p>
<p>hope this helps</p>