Mission Statement : Amherst College educates men and women of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. The Department of Physical Education and Athletics promotes this mission through the offering of recreational, intramural, club and intercollegiate activities that encourage students to shape their education within and beyond the curriculum. Academic excellence, high ethical standards, good sportsmanship and equal opportunities are the foundations of the Department’s commitment to the health and well-being of the students and of the greater campus community.
Location : Amherst, Massachusetts
Funding : Need blind admission for foreign students – very good. Meets 100% of demonstrated financial need.
Fact : Constantly ranked as one of the best Lib Arts College in the US. Very good Study Abroad Programme.
1) “Rigorous reasoning is crucial in mathematics, and insight plays an important secondary role these days. In the natural sciences, I would say that the order of these two virtues is reversed. Rigor is, of course, very important. But the most important value is insight—insight into the workings of the world. It may be because there is another guarantor of correctness in the sciences, namely, the empirical evidence from observation and experiments.”
Kannan Jagannathan, Professor of Physics, Amherst College
2) “Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He’s the happiest man on earth when he’s performing, but when the show is over, he’s sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.”
Ilán Stavans, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College. From “The Writer in Exile: an interview with Ilán Stavans” by Saideh Pakravan for the Fall 1993 issue of The Literary Review.
3) “It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest...unless the graduates of this college…are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion... then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.”
John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963
4) “Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior.”
Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College. From her book, Men and Women in Interaction: Reconsidering the Difference.
5) “Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.”
Attributed to William Hastie, Amherst Class of 1925, the first African-American to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals
Option B
Please submit a graded paper from your junior or senior year that best represents your writing skills and
analytical abilities. We are particularly interested in your ability to construct a tightly reasoned, persuasive
argument that calls upon literary, sociological or historical evidence. You should NOT submit a laboratory
report, journal entry, creative writing sample or in-class essay.
Optional Research Supplement:
If you have engaged in significant research in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, social
sciences or humanities that was undertaken independently of your high school curriculum, please provide
a brief description of the research project (50-75 words maximum):
Where, when and under whose mentorship did you conduct this research? (Provide mentor’s name, title and
institutional affiliation.)
If your research has been submitted to any national competition (e.g., Siemens, Intel) and/or accepted for
professional publication, please provide additional details:
Location : Amherst, Massachusetts
Funding : Need blind admission for foreign students – very good. Meets 100% of demonstrated financial need.
Endowment : $1.461 Billion
Fact : Constantly ranked as one of the best Lib Arts College in the US. Very good Study Abroad Programme.
Specialism : American Studies, Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought; and Neuroscience
Percent of Applicants Admitted : 13%
Percent of Applicants Admitted : 13%
Testing :
SAT Critical Reading: 660 / 760
SAT Math: 660 / 770
SAT Writing: 670 / 770
ACT Composite: 30 / 34
ACT English: 31 / 35
ACT Math: 29 / 34
SAT Critical Reading: 660 / 760
SAT Math: 660 / 770
SAT Writing: 670 / 770
ACT Composite: 30 / 34
ACT English: 31 / 35
ACT Math: 29 / 34
TOEFL waived if above 700 on SAT Critical Reading
2 Subject Tests required
Commonapp Supplement questions :
In addition to the essays you are writing as part of the QuestBridge application, Amherst requires a supplementary writing sample from all applicants. To satisfy Amherst’s supplementary writing requirement, you may choose either Option A or Option B. Before making a choice, you should review the following descriptions of both options.
Option A
Please respond to one of the following quotations in an essay of not more than 300 words. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.
1) “Rigorous reasoning is crucial in mathematics, and insight plays an important secondary role these days. In the natural sciences, I would say that the order of these two virtues is reversed. Rigor is, of course, very important. But the most important value is insight—insight into the workings of the world. It may be because there is another guarantor of correctness in the sciences, namely, the empirical evidence from observation and experiments.”
Kannan Jagannathan, Professor of Physics, Amherst College
2) “Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He’s the happiest man on earth when he’s performing, but when the show is over, he’s sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.”
Ilán Stavans, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College. From “The Writer in Exile: an interview with Ilán Stavans” by Saideh Pakravan for the Fall 1993 issue of The Literary Review.
3) “It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest...unless the graduates of this college…are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion... then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.”
John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963
4) “Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior.”
Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College. From her book, Men and Women in Interaction: Reconsidering the Difference.
5) “Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.”
Attributed to William Hastie, Amherst Class of 1925, the first African-American to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals
Option B
Please submit a graded paper from your junior or senior year that best represents your writing skills and
analytical abilities. We are particularly interested in your ability to construct a tightly reasoned, persuasive
argument that calls upon literary, sociological or historical evidence. You should NOT submit a laboratory
report, journal entry, creative writing sample or in-class essay.
If you have engaged in significant research in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, social
sciences or humanities that was undertaken independently of your high school curriculum, please provide
a brief description of the research project (50-75 words maximum):
Where, when and under whose mentorship did you conduct this research? (Provide mentor’s name, title and
institutional affiliation.)
If your research has been submitted to any national competition (e.g., Siemens, Intel) and/or accepted for
professional publication, please provide additional details:
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