W&L versus Amherst

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Anonymous wrote:The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two.

They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively).

Doubt it.

With a 17% acceptance rate, W&L doesn't accept 50% of applicants from any given high school anywhere, especially in RD.

Our school has a 89% admission rate at W&L from 2021-24 according to Scoir.

Ours has a 10% acceptance rate. We aren’t from Virginia so we don’t get preferred admission.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two.

They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively).

Doubt it.

With a 17% acceptance rate, W&L doesn't accept 50% of applicants from any given high school anywhere, especially in RD.

Our school has a 89% admission rate at W&L from 2021-24 according to Scoir.

Maybe there are specific private schools with feeder relationships that go way back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two.

They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively).

Doubt it.

With a 17% acceptance rate, W&L doesn't accept 50% of applicants from any given high school anywhere, especially in RD.

Well, if 2 kids apply and one gets in that's 50%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS’s friend there says most of the guys are politically conservative. I don’t view this as a problem at all but something anyone going there should understand.

PP. daughter says there are a ton of left leaning guys as well. Most of the student run left middle or right middle. It depends on the crowd you hang with and what you clubs and interests are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two.

They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively).

Doubt it.

With a 17% acceptance rate, W&L doesn't accept 50% of applicants from any given high school anywhere, especially in RD.

Well, if 2 kids apply and one gets in that's 50%.

The sample has more than 10 kids (all RD).

[Anonymous]

Has she actually been accepted to either or both? No sense going through these types of hypos unless and until admitted. If so, they’re obviously very different vibes and campus cultures, as already pointed out.

[Anonymous]

This is very off topic due to the “statistician” poster.

Op, your daughter should definitely go to W&L if she likes sorority scene and the outdoors. She’ll get very far with her career choice if she goes to W&L, and there’s a lot of benefits to having a law school right on campus. Id go to W&L.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two.

They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively).

Doubt it.

With a 17% acceptance rate, W&L doesn't accept 50% of applicants from any given high school anywhere, especially in RD.

Well, if 2 kids apply and one gets in that's 50%.

Well, with that small a sample size it would be kind of dumb to assert such an acceptance rate as the standard for that HS, right?

I guess the school has a 50% acceptance rate at Harvard too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems hard to imagine a student who's attracted to the culture at W&L would be attracted to the culture at Amherst.

This. Not the same environment at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two.

They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively).

Another parent making up stats. They’re both very selective schools.

Nah PP sounds reasonable: scoir has ours at 45% W&L acceptance, avg SAT 1420 with ED easier than RD by a little. Amherst and williams each have 2 acceptance the past 5 yrs, avg 1510, and all got into at least one ivy unless they did ED. Accept rate 12-15% for those schools. Ivy ED is harder than amherst or williams by a small amount, and ivy RD is harder than A or W RD.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two. [/quote]
They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.[/quote]

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively). [/quote]
Another parent making up stats. They’re both very selective schools.[/quote]

Nah PP sounds reasonable: scoir has ours at 45% W&L acceptance, avg SAT 1420 with ED easier than RD by a little. Amherst and williams each have 2 acceptance the past 5 yrs, avg 1510, and all got into at least one ivy unless they did ED. Accept rate 12-15% for those schools. Ivy ED is harder than amherst or williams by a small amount, and ivy RD is harder than A or W RD. [/quote]
State?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chances of getting into Amherst are minuscule. Hence, your DD is very unlikely to have the choice to decide between the two.

They’re both very selective. Getting into both is the difficulty.

At DD’s private school, the acceptance rate to W&L is over 50 percent. The average SAT score and GPA of the accepted candidates are below 1400 and 93, respectively. Nobody has been accepted to Amherst for years. (The stats of the accepted kids to Williams are 1500 and 97, respectively).

Doubt it.

With a 17% acceptance rate, W&L doesn't accept 50% of applicants from any given high school anywhere, especially in RD.

Our school has a 89% admission rate at W&L from 2021-24 according to Scoir.

Ours has a 10% acceptance rate. We aren’t from Virginia so we don’t get preferred admission.

The school I mentioned is in Connecticut.

[Anonymous]

Maybe our school has more Ed students, because the Williams acceptance rate is 39% and the W&L one is 43%. Both attract a pretty similar profile, just 50 SAT average down between the two (1460 W&L 1510 Williams). They seem really similar, but I’m no LAC expert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeing LAC parents fight over selectivity is hilarious. No one applies to lacs and they are hardly known
-Princeton mom, actually selective.

Btw: your kid should go to W&L. She’s gonna like it a lot more.

Sure you are, actually a Princeton mom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing LAC parents fight over selectivity is hilarious. No one applies to lacs and they are hardly known
-Princeton mom, actually selective.

Btw: your kid should go to W&L. She’s gonna like it a lot more.

Sure you are, actually a Princeton mom.

The speculation won’t change the fact that we can’t verify anything anyone says, so she’s a Princeton mom.