Amherst Releases First-Year Class Data After One-Month Delay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For non-URM, non-FG, non-LI, UMC kids, it's really difficult to get in top LACs.

There is no point in ED Amherst or Williams. Place your bet somewhere else like Chicago.

It’s really difficult for everyone to get into top LACs. As a white, UMC parent with a graduate degree, I’m really sick of hearing this from other privileged white people. Please get your heads out of your asses.

I guess you are not privileged enough to recognize that a white, unhooked middle-class kid with top stats has a better chance of getting into an Ivy ED than Amherst ED. You might be “sick of hearing this,” but applicants are making a very important life decision, and they need this information to make an informed choice. Sorry you find that so offensive. Perhaps another graduate degree where you learn to apply your obviously lacking quantitative skills is in order.

So much whining, my god.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For non-URM, non-FG, non-LI, UMC kids, it's really difficult to get in top LACs.

There is no point in ED Amherst or Williams. Place your bet somewhere else like Chicago.

It’s really difficult for everyone to get into top LACs. As a white, UMC parent with a graduate degree, I’m really sick of hearing this from other privileged white people. Please get your heads out of your asses.

You first.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone clarify why the self-reported percentages are double the federal reporting percentages? I'm not following.

[Anonymous]

Plenty of top SLACs in the 15-25 ranked category that seek UMC kids and wealthy families that are full pay. Colgate, Davidson, Holy Cross, Colby, and Middlebury are a few. Full pay families applying ED will have a good chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forget the press release and look at the actual numbers from the data, available here:
https://www.amherst.edu/about/facts/secondary_school_reports/class-of-2029-admission-and-enrollment-profile

Black 6%
Asian 12%
Latinx 16%
Multiracial 11%
White 40%
Did not report 6%
International 10%

Note: most internationals are Asian, most do not reports are Asian, and many of the multiracial category.

How can you be certain they are Asian? Is that merely a guess?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Forget the press release and look at the actual numbers from the data, available here:
https://www.amherst.edu/about/facts/secondary_school_reports/class-of-2029-admission-and-enrollment-profile

Black 6%
Asian 12%
Latinx 16%
Multiracial 11%
White 40%
Did not report 6%
International 10%

Note: most internationals are Asian, most do not reports are Asian, and many of the multiracial category.

How can you be certain they are Asian? Is that merely a guess?

Very few international Asian. Also not attractive to tech immigrants' kids. LACs are mostly for whites and third or fourth generation Asians. The LAC whiners on DCUM are just whites.

[Anonymous]

I really thought this line was from DCUM and not the student paper

The percentage of Black and African American and Latinx students also doubled.

They make it very hard to find THE NUMBER OF BLACK KIDS IN THE ADMITTED CLASS. . is it really 15 kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really thought this line was from DCUM and not the student paper

The percentage of Black and African American and Latinx students also doubled.

They make it very hard to find THE NUMBER OF BLACK KIDS IN THE ADMITTED CLASS. . is it really 15 kids?

6% of 500 is 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For non-URM, non-FG, non-LI, UMC kids, it's really difficult to get in top LACs.

There is no point in ED Amherst or Williams. Place your bet somewhere else like Chicago.

exactly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really thought this line was from DCUM and not the student paper

The percentage of Black and African American and Latinx students also doubled.

They make it very hard to find THE NUMBER OF BLACK KIDS IN THE ADMITTED CLASS. . is it really 15 kids?

6% of 500 is 30.

485 in the class.
29 black kids?

meanwhile, 34 are questbridge
and close to 50 are international?

I'd like to see how many Black domestic students who are not questbridge. It's a single digit number, I think

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone clarify why the self-reported percentages are double the federal reporting percentages? I'm not following.

Yeah, I'm not clear on this either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really thought this line was from DCUM and not the student paper

The percentage of Black and African American and Latinx students also doubled.

They make it very hard to find THE NUMBER OF BLACK KIDS IN THE ADMITTED CLASS. . is it really 15 kids?

6% of 500 is 30.

485 in the class.
29 black kids?

meanwhile, 34 are questbridge
and close to 50 are international?

I'd like to see how many Black domestic students who are not questbridge. It's a single digit number, I think

Questbridge is mostly Hispanic and Asian and white. I don’t know why everyone perceives black people at top schools as poor here. Schools are currently boosting their rural white student population.

[Anonymous]

Well, I hope so, OP, Amherst's scores for all categories is very low. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/amherst-college/student-life/diversity/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really thought this line was from DCUM and not the student paper

The percentage of Black and African American and Latinx students also doubled.

They make it very hard to find THE NUMBER OF BLACK KIDS IN THE ADMITTED CLASS. . is it really 15 kids?

6% of 500 is 30.

485 in the class.
29 black kids?

meanwhile, 34 are questbridge
and close to 50 are international?

I'd like to see how many Black domestic students who are not questbridge. It's a single digit number, I think

Questbridge is mostly Hispanic and Asian and white. I don’t know why everyone perceives black people at top schools as poor here. Schools are currently boosting their rural white student population.

true, but QB is about 10% Black (far higher than the Amherst class), and some of these SLACs lean on it for rural, Hispanic, and Black students. But let's say 5 of those Amherst QB kids are Black. now we're down to 24 kids. How many are intl? half? This is why people perceive black people at top schools as poor. Because these schools are doing a piss poor job being attractive to MC, UMC and rich black kids. It's a spiral.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Forget the press release and look at the actual numbers from the data, available here:
https://www.amherst.edu/about/facts/secondary_school_reports/class-of-2029-admission-and-enrollment-profile

Black 6%
Asian 12%
Latinx 16%
Multiracial 11%
White 40%
Did not report 6%
International 10%

Note: most internationals are Asian, most do not reports are Asian, and many of the multiracial category.

How can you be certain they are Asian? Is that merely a guess?

Very few international Asian. Also not attractive to tech immigrants' kids. LACs are mostly for whites and third or fourth generation Asians. The LAC whiners on DCUM are just whites.

You are correct that the top SLACs aren't attractive to tech immigrant families, but that is due to a lack of awareness. I live in the bay area and as awareness grows it is changing, especially for those looking for medical careers. The Val at a top private last year turned down UCLA and UCB for Williams last year. Another top 10 kid in the class chose Middelbury over the same schools. Both are looking to med school.