<p>Hey, why isn't there a Class of 2011 forum for Amherst on here? That's a little weird...</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK to everybody - letters were mailed out today, I guess, so that means you should all know by Monday or Tuesday if you live in the U.S.</p>
<p>i also got that email. congrats to everyone else who has been accepted! </p>
<p>yay</p>
<p>this college admissions game is driving me crazy!</p>
<p>...would it be a correct assumption to think that if you are a "diverse student" and did not receive an invitation to the diversity weekend that you are not going to get in?</p>
<p>i know i only have a few days to wait and see and it will quell all my questions but please....for the love of (insert something you love here) answer the question of a high school senior that is losing sleep and such over this.</p>
<p>i didnt get an email thus i got rejected</p>
<p>congradulation to those that were accepeted, i guess im rejected, no email sucks but congrad</p>
<p>I think these emails are like likelies--meant for only a few of those who're accepted.</p>
<p>I don't want to falsely raise your guys' hope, but I really think that not getting an email has no significance at all.</p>
<p>i agree - i'm not sure why i'm eligible for diversity benefits</p>
<p>i'm indian, but i've never seen a campus where asians are under-represented</p>
<p>and i live in the suburbs, so i can't add much socioeconomic diversity</p>
<p>The suburbs of Blue Sky Montana vs. the suburbs of NYC. And yes, Asians are still considered diverse at Amherst. D was white from suburban school outside big city, but hardly anyone in this area knows Amherst or has applied, so she is part of Diversity program.</p>
<p>I have no idea if they sent that out to all the diversity kids. It may have been a limited number. After all, they're offering several hundred dollars to each student that gets one of these, and as rich as Amherst is I doubt they're offering that to every poor kid or student of color.</p>
<p>Haha...so I got my Swarthmore rejection yesterday. I guess I had two contrasting pictures in my head of how this week would go: the first, and more likely, was devastation - though not absolute - at being rejected at all the top schools I applied to. My comfort, of course, would be the five good schools who had already accepted me and were offering merit scholarships. And then there was the heady dream of getting into all those schools and saying "Oh my, which will it be? Harvard or Yale? Columbia or Amherst? Swarthmore or the University of Chicago? Gee, I just can't decide." Of course, I'd be so swelled up with self-importance that I'd hardly have time to make the big decision...and in all honesty, I don't know how I would have made that decision. Yes, I ranked all 13 schools, but never in a way that I was sure of myself. So getting into Amherst, the most selective LAC in the country, but being rejected at 4 top schools and waitlisted at another 3, was a surprise and wake-up call...and possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.</p>
<p>Every other school that I've researched has brought up at least a couple of doubts in my mind, but I've always had a comfortable and confident feeling about Amherst (aside from the getting-in part). And I love the idea of the Five College Consortium so much that I kinda considered applying to another of them, just in case I didn't get into Amherst. So now that the decision is pretty much made for me, all I have to do is tell the five good schools - including three that I love - who've accepted me that I have other plans this fall. And that's okay. Because there's no way I can turn this chance down.</p>
<p>Lol, if this post comes across weird, I'm sorry - you can ignore it. This stuff has just been on my mind lately and it was good for me to write it down. Maybe my journal would be a better place, because sometimes CC is too brutal for total transparency.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it Amherst will be great! I fell in love with it from the very beginnning. That's why I'm going...</p>
<p>lol lavendercloud- you and i both got rejected from swarthmore and sarah lawrence... did not expect to get in at amherst... and got accepted around the same time.</p>
<p>O.O weird. :0)</p>
<p>While Asians are considered "diversity" students at Amherst, they definitely do not get an admissions boost like other minority students or poor students (unless the Asians are poor of course) do.</p>
<p>It's pretty much the same at other top colleges. Asians are ambigously a minority, where the school can say that such-and-such percentage of the student body is non-white or diversity, but the percentage for "underrepresented minorities" is different.</p>