Likely Letters/Early Acceptances

Colleges and Universities A-Z Amherst College
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<p>"~200 10char"</p>

<p>what does 10char mean?</p>

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<p>A post on this board must be at least 10 characters long. So, if someone has a short post they often put "10 char" to bring it up to the minimum length.</p>

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<p>awww it seems like so many divoh people got an early write and I didn't :(</p>

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<p>What is divoh, exactly? A summer program at AC?</p>

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<p>Divoh = Diversity Open House, not a summer program, it was 3 days/2 nights.</p>

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<p>i was accepted to divoh but i picked the swarthmore discovery weekend over divoh. do you think that hurt my chances for amherst RD?</p>

<p>congrats to all who got early letters!</p>

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<p>I got an EW but I didn't go to (nor was I invited to) DivOH.
Aargh...so happy; I really thought I wasn't going to get one.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know roughly what the ratio of Early Acceptances to RD Admits is?</p>

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<p>For the class of '11:
1041 students were accepted RD (1175 total minus 134 ED)
And there are about 200 early writes. 200/1041 = about 19%.</p>

<p>I got the statistics from [url=<a href="http://www.amherst.edu/admission/important_info/61st%20SSR.pdf%5Dthis%5B/url"&gt;http://www.amherst.edu/admission/important_info/61st%20SSR.pdf]this[/url&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/p>

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<p>They accepted 140 ed this year. That's 1/3 of the class, they deliberately cap it at that.</p>

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<p>That means my chance of acceptance is astronomically small. ( I know that this phrase sucks but couldnt find a better one right now)</p>

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<p>1/3 of the class is not the same as 1/3 of total acceptances, though.</p>

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<p>good point Kristina. The number of applicants they accept is way larger than their class size.</p>

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<p>Does Amherst send early writes in waves, or is it just one batch?</p>

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<p>I think they have been send them out for a while now. people have being saying that they got in "early" since early feb</p>

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<p>i was gone since last week and the early write letter was waiting for me when i got home. it came on wednesday, and i live in the midatlantic region if that helps. </p>

<p>congrats to everyone else! i also went to the october DIVOH. amherst is probably my first choice after brown as of now.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know if historically Amherst has sent out its RD letters before April 1?</p>

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<p>i got one today!</p>

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<p>I got one today too. It was a nice surprise :)</p>

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<p>hanguksaram and jaw...by "one" do you mean an early acceptance, or a regular acceptance?</p>