<p>To spirit76: It was a small envelope, but I knew it was a bit too thick to be a rejection. There was a letter, a list of FAQs about the waitlist, and a postcard to mail back to them.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: CR 720, M 720, W 690
[</em>] ACT: 29
[<em>] SAT II: US History 660, Math I 680, Math II 640
[</em>] Unweighted GPA : 4.0
[<em>] Rank: Top 5 student
[</em>] AP: None
[<em>] IB: None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Rigorous
[li] Major Awards:Nation Honor Society, National Merit commended, National Hispanic Scholar, Wells College 21 Century Leadership Award, Boys State Rep, John Hopkins University Scholarship to Vassar College, University of Albany High Achiever Student of Color award.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars: 20 credits at Community College, 16 credits at Bard College, 8 Credits at Vassar College[/li]Leadership positions: Founder of Humanitarian Organization at High School, Captain of Soccer and Volleyball teams. Head referee for Community Soccer League
Sports: Varsity Soccer 4yr./Varsity Volleyball 1yr/ Varsity Basketball 1 yr/ JV Basketball 3 yr/ Varsity Baseball 1yr</p>
<p>[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked since 10th grade 15 hrs/per week
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Habitat for Humanity, Many hours as volunteer in community,
[<em>] Summer Activities: Work
[</em>] Essays: Excellent
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: N/A</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Unknown
[<em>] State: NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: small public k-12
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Middle
[li] Hooks: URM</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[list]
[li] Strengths: Very rigorous schedule, 44 college credits from Bard, Vassar and community college</p>[/li]
<p>[li] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses: SAT II scores</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: They commented on my essays.</p>[/li]
<p>[*] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Williams and Middlebury</p>
<p>Don’t really think this helps, but in case anybody does…</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 800M/730R/700W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 790 Chem, 760 Bio M, 700 World History
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] GPA: 4.32 (4.0A, 4.3A+, 5.0H)
[<em>] Rank: No official rank, would be top 1% of 350
[</em>] Other stats: 8 APs (all fives), national AP scholar, natl merit finalist, rensselaer medal award
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs: Write about high school sports for the website of our local paper, play varsity volleyball and baseball, jazz piano, bass guitar…
[</em>] Essays: Thought amherst supplement was one of my better ones…common app has been neither great nor terrible, according to what has happened…
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didn’t see, should have been good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t see, probably good
[<em>] Hook (if any): nope
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Upstate NY
[<em>] School Type: Suburban public, 350 per class
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Intended Major: Economics
[li] major strength/weakness: no idea[/li][/ul]Other Factors: </p>
<p>Fourth waitlist already (Williams, Chicago, and Lehigh-???), into Northwestern and waiting on ivys. Haven’t been officially rejected anywhere yet, on the bright side.</p>
<p>just got waitlisted…</p>
<p>Spirit76: yeah, there was a postcard. The envelope is standard-sized, and thin.</p>
<p>Waitlisted…</p>
<p>Rejected, whatever…didn’t like Amherst that much anyway, good luck to everyone else! :)</p>
<p>Decision: Wait-Listed
SAT CR:800
SAT Math:760
SAT Writing:770
SAT Total:2330
SAT Subject Tests: Literature:760
U.S. History:710
Math 2:660
ACT: N/A
AP/IB taken/scores: AP Calculus AB:5; AP U.S. History:5; Currently taking AP Calculus BC, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, AP Physics, and AP Psychology
GPA weighted:N/A
GPA unweighted:4.22
Rank or % estimate:29/709
Essays: (Feelings on Common App) Good, about my theater camp counselor who had a huge impact on me and was killed in a drunk driving accident; what I learned from him and his death
Supplemental Essay: I was very proud of it personally, it was about how I had an intellectual epiphany while sitting on an Amtrak toilet seat, doin’ my thing. I thought the subject was a little risky but I liked the contrast between the two too much not to send it in.
Teacher Recs: Both pretty good, somewhat bland however
Counselor Rec: Didn’t see it, assume it was pretty good (she loves me)
Hook (if any): Lots and lots of theater, improv
State or Country: Massachusetts
School Type: Large urban public 45 minutes outside of Boston (in honors program within school)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Legacy: N/A
Recruited Athlete & Sport: N/A
Important ECs: Performed in 20 musicals or plays with very strong community theater group or school, with several comic/supporting roles (including a top 10 best supporting actor nomination at the New Hampshire Theatre Awards) and one leading role (although Wes didn’t know about it). Spent almost 300 community service hours as a summer theatre camp counselor. Performed with youth community improv troupe for 3 seasons, assistant directing this year. Performed in several improv benefit shows for charity and led a couple free improv workshops. Studying piano (11 years) and voice (3 years). A member of 4 student leadership/advisory boards at school. Played keyboard in church youth worship band Junior year. Skied JV for 3 seasons, rowed novice 1 season and coxswained novice 1 season.
Other Factors: Low income, jumped 23 ranks in 1st 2 quarters of senior year
General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I’m proud of the fact that I didn’t get a straight-out rejection from the #1 liberal arts college in the country. I’m still waiting on the Ivies, but I got into Wesleyan so no matter what it’s all good!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlist</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 730 Reading, 720 Math, 790 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 750 US History, 740 Literature, 720 Biology E
[<em>] ACT: 35
[</em>] GPA: 97%
[<em>] Rank: No rank, somewhere at top decile
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Counselor said my common app essay was the best he had read. I thought my Amherst Essay was funny, but I had some trouble thinking of what to write it on. Could have not shown enough about me
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One really great, another they got the first week of March. I faxed it three times! =(
[<em>] Counselor Rec: he really likes me?
[</em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Public (super competitive)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Intended Major: History
[</em>] major strength/weakness: ~Strength~ Extracurricular Activities- 4 years of theater w/ 8 leads, All-State level singer, President of Select Choir & Music Honors Society & and Male a cappella group, Editor of Literary Magazine, 2 years varsity tennis.
~Weakness~ Too generic? Too similar to other applicants? They didn’t get that one rec until March, which was really annoying…
[/ul]Other Factors: C’est la vie! I loved the school. I already got into Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago, and Kenyon, but Amherst would have been my number one. Let’s just hope I get more good news in the next few days.</p>
<p>Wow Sherlock… those are some hefty acceptances!! Sorry about the waitlist, but if nothing else that decision proves that sometimes there is no rhyme or reason that we can know. Congrats though and good luck with the rest!</p>
<p>Okay i just typed out a whole long format just so it could vanish mysteriously.
Basically twin and I got accepted, two white males from large public HS in NYC, qb finalists, both have 33 ACT and ranks 11/850 and 12/850, well rounded.</p>
<p>^ Don’t ya just hate that? sometimes the page just closes down on me for no apparent reason. My fingers weren’t even near the keyboard! Who knows. </p>
<p>Still… Congrats to Thing1 and Thing2 (always what comes to mind when I see “twin”)!!!</p>
<p>Wondering: Did you not submit SAT’s at all?</p>
<p>Congrats to all have heard so far. And to Annonymous91, and twin, there is a set of twin girls that are freshman now with my D! I can only imagine that is parent happiness X 2!!!</p>
<p>Thanks Modadunn, I’m very grateful for where I’ve gotten in. Plenty of exciting choices ahead. It really only takes 24 hours of being waitlisted before I get over the allure the school had before. Plus, I talked to my guidance counselor and he said only one kid in almost twenty has gotten in in the last 6 years and he ended up at Harvard. We had three waitlisted this year. Looking through the stats, it was super competitive! Congrats to all those who were accepted!</p>
<p>Haha, yea even my mom teases us with the “thing 1 thing 2” bit. We both sent in SAT II’s, and subsequently SAT, however, only one twin actually had an SAT score to report (a little lower than the 33 ACT). There is definitely parental happiness, even maybe x4, (learned about pomona the same day). We will have a really hard choice in the next few weeks…</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 UW; 4.1 W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top decile
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5)
[li] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC; AP Chem (all AP’s offered)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 2 Newspapers [Editor/chief]; Yearbook [editor]; 4 years of various political initiatives; track [non-varsity]; 12 hrs/week job; 2 years summerschool programs; counselor @ overnight camp; 400 hrs comm. service
[</em>] Essays: definitely a strong point
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: great as everyone else’s
[</em>] Counselor Rec: typical</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[</em>] Intended Major: Economics + Spanish
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Competitive Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy </p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: I am so happy/surprised! I was waitlisted at Wesleyan which I absolutely loved, so I was not expecting to get accepted at Amherst…!!! I still have to hear from a few schools but so far I’ve gotten into Trinity, Colby, Bowdoin and Oberlin… and I like Amherst more 
!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: N/A
[</em>] SAT IIs: Biology M: 680; US History: 580; Literature: 590
[<em>] ACT: 26
[</em>] GPA: 3.929
[<em>] Rank: 69/448
[</em>] Other stats: I’ve taken 14 AP classes. Scored 3s on the following APs: Bio, Psych, Eng. Lang, US History, and European History (I didn’t take the exam on all APs though.)
[/ul][ b]Subjective:**[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Very very good…as told by a handful of people who’ve read them. They were extremely personal and dealt with hard topics on race, finances, struggle, adversity, and even marriage and how I hope college will open up more doors and opportunites never offered to me before. (Without a doubt, my essays definitely pushed me into the admit pile. Thank you for AP English Language and my awesome teacher!)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I read one and it teared me up. She knows me well and she was able to pull in some personal touches to it and was also able to talk about my home life. The other, written by my AP English Language teacher, I’m sure was just as personal.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I did not read this, but imagine it was probably similar to the others.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Essays (?), Arts Supplement (I wrote a play), Major theatre experience (competitions), Science Supplement, URM, first generation college student, low-income
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Virginia
[</em>] School Type: Public (Very competitive; everyone in the top 12-13% has above a 4.0)
[<em>] Ethnicity: African American
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Intended Major: Theatre & Biology Double Major
[</em>] major strength/weakness: THEATRE, Thespian Honor Society, Animal Club, German Club, Debate, Chorus., Culture Club…I had several officer positions including President, Treasurer, and Historian. (WEAKNESS): Test scores & Class rank
[/ul]Other Factors:
I will have taken 14 AP classes by the time I graduate. 7 as a junior and 6 as a senior, alone.</p>
<p>I am very honored to be among the very select few who are offered a spot at Amherst…I mean, look at the other CCers who were accepted! They clearly have better stats than I do, but I’m very proud of myself that I was able to convey other special characteristics about myself than simply test scores. Congratulations to everyone accepted thus far and good luck to those still waiting! Go Amherst, Class of 2013!</p>
<p>Did the letters give any numbers as to applicants and acceptances? In other words, do we know the acceptance rate for this year yet?</p>
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<p>Is there any law in the way stopping you from doing that? Go on, then.</p>
<p>Anonymous315: I don’t have the letter with me at this moment, but I think I do recall the dean mentioning somewhere around 7600+ people applied for around 1200 spots. I could be wrong or mistaking it for another school, but I think those numbers are correct. I’ll double check when I get home!</p>
<p>@Ambitious Mind: That looks about right. Last year 7745 applied and 1144 were accepted</p>