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Colleges and Universities A-Z Amherst College
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<p>oh ya and BellaD, sorry I didn't read the 2nd part of your question before</p>

<p>along with my card, I sent in a letter expressing my interest in amherst and then since application time, I won a lot of awards including Intel STS semifinalist. I think that <-- got me in</p>

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<p>anyone get The Call today (thursday)?</p>

<p>I sure haven't.</p>

<p>godd*mn.</p>

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<p>According to NY Times reporters, Amherst offered admission to 15 yesterday and plans to offer 10 more spots.</p>

<p>Darn...</p>

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<p>yeah by this point if we haven't gotten a call, mathematically speaking it probably won't happen.</p>

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<p>I think they'll make the final several calls tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed.</p>

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<p>FINGERS CROSSED LIKE NO OTHER!!! :(</p>

<p>The odds are seriously against us though...noooooo Amherst <3</p>

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<p>Me too, fingers crossed.
But honestly, if you're from the East Coast I think you have a better shot of getting in. They probably passed up a ton of great candidates from in the name of geographical diversity. Sucks to be from Washington! Whatever I'll stop *****in and start crossing my fingers :)</p>

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<p>Haha I checked the finaid thing for me (just for fun...) and it's not working for me either - good sign?! :O lol. I can't go to sleep because I'm too scared :( I really hope they notify tomorrow, and tell the rest of us that they don't want us so I can crush that painful smidgeon of hope.</p>

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<p>
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According to NY Times reporters, Amherst offered admission to 15 yesterday and plans to offer 10 more spots.

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<p>Don't sully the name of the New York Times, please: link to the online article?
Or, are you an insider? =)</p>

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<p>Oops, my bad, found it myself!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/education/09admissions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/education/09admissions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I wonder if that 15+10 number includes the projected "trickle-downs" from Harvard/Yale waitlists.</p>

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<p>so does that mean amherst has finished taking people off the waitlist if we didn't get a call this week?</p>

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<p>i think they will make phone calls tmr as well cause the office opens on sat as well.</p>

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<p>dang it...
so is this what it'll look like?</p>

<p>-25ish people get taken off waitlist this weekendish
-if a few of the 25 people say "no thanks"
admisson office goes to other kids on the waitlist </p>

<p>-repeat x however many times needed until june or even July pending on people accepting offer</p>

<p>btw, harvard is taking off 150 people from the waitlist? Yale is taking off 40? is this INSANE or what?</p>

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<p>I got into Amherst. Yea!</p>

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<p>skunk: when did you get the call?</p>

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<p>
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is this INSANE or what?

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<p>More embarrassing than insane, really :)
< off the waitlist</p>

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<p>Oh! Did they tell you today? I assume that if I didn't get a phone call, Amherst doesn't plan on accepting me, then :(</p>

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<p>Truthfully speaking, I believe kwu is the one who most deserved to get off the waitlist. Reading your posts, I felt you are the one most eager to go to Amherst. Hopefully I'll meet you come August. Good luck!!!</p>

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<p>I checked my email today, and discovered that they'd sent me an email on the 8th of May. They'd also sent me another email asking if I was still interested in Amherst on the 7th, and I'd replied in the affirmative.</p>

<p>btw, I'm an international. So that explains the emails.</p>