Amherst acceptance rate is 6.78%, all time low.
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Anonymous
| And almost half applicants are international, not sure what's going on. |
Anonymous
| Seeking full pay? |
Anonymous
| So this is not news |
Anonymous
| Correction, 40% international applicants. |
Anonymous
| But I thought everyone wanted to go to college in a big city?! |
Anonymous
So basically their real acceptance rate is somewhere in the 10s-20% |
Anonymous
There’s a sucker born every minute. |
Anonymous
| Last year was 40%, this year is close to 50% according to school. |
Anonymous
Need blind for international students, which is rare. This is one of the few shots of an American education for poorer internationals. SLACs don’t have as strong of a demand amongst kids nowadays, at least at our school so that international student bump is real. I know Grinnell is not need blind but meets 100% of demonstrated need for international students and gets a lot of international applications too. |
Anonymous
They only admit 1-2% of internationals, domestically, is probably around 10%. Williams admits even less. |
Anonymous
Most do. Only 15K people applied to Amherst (in contrast to NYU, which gets $120+K applicants per year). Amherst's admission rate is low because there are only 500 spots at Amherst per year. Admission rates for LACs can't really be compared to full-size unis, because they only have a few hundred spots per class. It's not apples to apples. But obviously there is more demand (in terms of actual applicants) to US colleges in or near large cities. |
Anonymous
My kids really really love NY, but sorry, if you don't want NYU but can't get in Columbia, then you have to go somewhere else. |
Anonymous
Right, kind of like if a guy can’t marry a supermodel who belongs to MENSA, he might as well jump iff a bridge. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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Amherst was unusually unscathed in the drama facing higher education being a liberal arts college with a strong endowment.
They are not being subject to the increased endowment tax and not having graduate students, they don't take a lot of federal money for research. |