<p>it seems amherst loses a lot of their acceptees to harvard, yale, other ivies…</p>
<p>amherst anyone here’s first choice?</p>
<p>Mine, and i'm accepted to class of 2009.</p>
<p>So I plan to attend.</p>
<p>Same here. Amherst Class of 2009</p>
<p>Amherst is absolutely my first choice, but I didn't apply ED. Hopefully April will bring me good things like large envelopes from said college.</p>
<p>Amherst sent my acceptence in a small, thin envelope. I applied ED, and they may only send small envelopes for ED admits (sending the big folder and forms later). While it's possible you'll receive a large envelope, don't freak out if the envelope is small.</p>
<p>Haha, thank you for that piece of information. I meant "big envelope" in more of a symbolic way, but I could see myself panicking and going absolutely insane if I got a small envelope, only to discover that it's actually my acceptance letter. I appreciate your comment, because now I'll keep in mind that I should open whatever size envelope I receive before I judge its contents.</p>
<p>How does Amherst do against the Ivies?</p>
<p>According to princetonreview.com, Amherst has a yield rate of 38% and many applicants also apply to Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Stanford, Williams, and Brown. So yeah, Amherst probably loses a lot of acceptees to those places.</p>
<p>How does that matter? The ivies will always have an edge in name-brand prestige. Amherst gets its grads into the same top grad programs that the ivies send their grads to, and does it with a smaller student body and higher student/professor interaction.</p>
<p>According to the Wall Street Journal Amherst ranks 9th in terms of the percentage of graduates accepted into the top graduate schools in the country:</p>
<p>1) Harvard
2) Yale
3) Princeton
4) Stanford
5) Williams
6) Duke
7) Dartmouth
8) MIT
9) AMHERST
10) Swarthmore</p>
<p>Thats ahead of Columbia (11), Brown (12), Penn (16), and Cornell (25)</p>
<p>and thats under a debated definition of graduate schools, right? I thought that only included law, medicine, and business? or something like that. Amherst grads may be more likely to go to grad schools for other subjects of interest than grads from some of the more pre-professional ivies.</p>
<p>grad school is grad school. i think there are seperate studies for schools that matriculate students to law school etc.</p>
<p>What other schools are some of you who are applying to Amherst applying to?</p>
<p>amherst, along with boston u, are my first choice. if i was accepted to both, i would go to the one which offered me the most aid which would probably be amherst, i'm thinking.</p>
<p>I'm also applying to stanford, brown, williams, and carleton. Not really sure what my first choice is though.</p>
<p>besides amherst, ive applied to: pomona, rice, dartmouth, carleton, uchicago, washu, wesleyan, grinnell, university of puget sound, and KU.</p>
<h1>1 is pomona right now, and it really has no order after that....kinda jumbled, mix of uchcago, rice, dartmouth and amherst at #2.</h1>
<p>amherst >>> bu</p>
<p>im applying to princeton, stanford, usc, and trinity</p>
<p>amherst is 3rd on that list</p>
<p>amherst is mine!</p>