<p>Hi keek<em>a</em>leek have you heard anything from Amherst yet? I applied RD too am I'm getting a little nervous caus so many people are getting early notifications.</p>
<p>Yes, you should have your notification in hand before 4/1.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED EARLY WRITE, SCHUPF SCHOLAR</p>
<p>(sorry its so long, but i just copy pasted from my other posts)</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
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<li>SAT I (breakdown): M: 800; CR: 760; W: 760 (12 essay); Total: 2320</li>
<li>ACT: Didn't submit</li>
<li>SAT II: MathII: 800; Chemistry 800; Physics 800</li>
<li>GPA: 3.97 unweighted; 4.65 weighted</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no rank, at least top 4 percent (ELC)</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 in physics b, bio, stats, chem, calc ab, 4 in us history, world history, 3 in eng lang (ewww)</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis): none</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: ap studio art, ap physics c, ap eng lit, ap gov/ap econ, work exp, linear algebra</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): some random science stuff. science oly state, science fair, etc. nothing too outstanding</li>
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Swimming
Key Club
Science Olympiad
Biomed internship
Science Fair
SC Youth Symphony
Speech and Debate</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Work at a tutoring center</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: at Scripps Memorial Hospital</li>
<li>Summer Activities: Work, Volunteering</li>
<li>Essays: Liked them alot...one about grandfather and his influence, other about flying model airplanes</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: They should have been good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Should be good</li>
<li>Additional Rec: None</li>
<li><p>Interview: Alumni interview- went well; pretty long
Supplementary Material: none
Other</p></li>
<li><p>Applied for Financial Aid?: can't remember</p></li>
<li><p>Intended Major: physics</p></li>
<li><p>State (if domestic applicant): california</p></li>
<li><p>Country (if international applicant):</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Large Public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: Asian</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Male</p></li>
<li><p>Income Bracket: 100,000 +</p></li>
<li><p>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Reflection</p>
<ul>
<li>Strengths: i really liked my essays</li>
<li>Weaknesses: guess my academics and ecs were pretty average</li>
</ul>
<p>General Comments: happy! i really want to go to amherst, esp cuz of the schupf scholars</p>
<p>sword king, I have not heard back anything yet.</p>
<p>Supachai: Never heard of Alumni interview. Only thing told us was there are no interviews. SO.. how did that come about?</p>
<p>Modadunn, it's a copy+paste from a post he had made on the Yale forum: he didn't bother to revise it.</p>
<p>How... predictable then. But, how can someone not remember if they applied for financial aid?</p>
<p>ya, its just copy pasted, didnt really look over it.
and about the financial aid, its cuz i signed up for it on certain apps but i didnt do it on others, since i was unsure if i would even qualify at all. sorry for any confusion there...</p>
<p>Fun Fact: Amherst actually does have alumni interviews. It's for those kids whose parents, etc. went to the college.</p>
<p>Wow, that seem severely unfair...nepotism!!! Sure, they like legacies, but really...</p>
<p>Maybe it could actually work against you. Does it really matter that your dad graduated from Amherst if you are a entitled brat?</p>
<p>I think it's a courtesy. Any college that likes to maintain its traditions, embrace its history, and develop its alumni network for the benefit of the college and its future graduates would probably want to at least extend the opportunity for legacy kids to meet someone in admissions. Is it unfair? I don't know. I guess it depends on whether applicants who are not interviewed are at a disadvantage in admissions. My guess is that they are not. On the other hand, strong alumni relations can benefit all students of the college.</p>
<p>I don't think the alumni interview helps in the sense that the interview itself gives the legacy applicant any kind of edge in the admissions decision. It is helpful in that admissions can give the legacy applicant a rough idea of their admissions chances. Williams offers similar legacy interviews. (At both schools, an otherwise qualified legacy applicant will have a slight edge in the admissions process.)</p>
<p>"Maybe it could actually work against you. Does it really matter that your dad graduated from Amherst if you are a entitled brat?"</p>
<p>Isn't that an unfair assumption...?</p>
<p>In terms of legacies having an edge in admissions, only those legacies that are qualified to begin with are given an "edge." In fact, many legacies are advised against applying in the interview if they are not qualified.</p>
<p>"It is helpful in that admissions can give the legacy applicant a rough idea of their admissions chances."</p>
<p>That is exactly what it is.</p>
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<p>I wasn't making any kind of assumption about legacies, but pointing out that interviews don't always benefit a person if the person is a jerk. Entitled brat was just a way to say, it takes more than grades and your dad graduating to get into Amherst.</p>
<p>WHAT Modadunn?
I would say calling someone an "entitled brat" is definitely making an assumption about someone....</p>
<p>A person cannot help where his/her parents went to college, luck of the draw. Calling someone a brat is implying that by definition they are ungrateful, etc... that was ridiculously uncalled for on your part.</p>
<p>I am not an Amherst legacy myself, but I am extremely offended by that.</p>
<p>I have to agree with tyler212. I'm not a legacy either but it's extremely inconsiderate to stereotype the group as brats, especially when nobody even posted here assuming they'll get in because of their parents.</p>
<p>OMG people relax. Please look at the comment in context of the previous posts on page 2. Point of fact, DMV417 posted a fun fact that said Amherst actually does have alumni Interviews. To which, Cygne posted: </p>
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Wow, that seem severely unfair...nepotism!!! Sure, they like legacies, but really...
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<p>To which my POINT was that it truly matters little if you are a legacy, you still have to be a good pick (and a brat would not be a good candidate). This does not mean that all legacy kids are brats or that all kids who attend Amherst will raise brats. What it does mean is that there are certainly a FEW kids whose parents may have gone to Amherst and they have neither the grades or other qualifications to get in. Assuming they will be admitted or should be simply because of legacy, is the assumption in this case. However, if you haven't seen the outrage on some threads from all the schools on CC that lament the fact that their legacy status didn't get them bupkiss, then you haven't been reading long. And no, I didn't say THIS thread, nor was I commenting that anyone on Amherst board was assuming this.</p>
<p>Again, it was just an example, not a qualifier OR assumption. All ducks are birds and all ducks swim, but that those two statements are true does not mean that all birds swim or that all birds are ducks. Logic 101. Can we relax now? Sheesh. Please read in context before leaping to conclusions. It was mostly just unfortunate that my post about the limited likelihood that an interview would be beneficial for ALL legacies made the jump to the top of page 3.</p>
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A person cannot help where his/her parents went to college, luck of the draw.
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<p>If I used your logic...Nor should they unduly benefit from it either. And this is surely not the case at most schools. Whether it is considered very important, somewhat important, or merely important in admission decisions, rarely is it such that it is not considered at all. However, in most cases, being a legacy gives no one a guarantee of admission. In fact, there have been kids in our school whose families give a great deal of money and time to their alma maters and their kids were still unceremoniously rejected (although in one case there was a phone call to break the news more gently).</p>