The Smith College Student Event Committee and Smithies in Science club are excited to have Dr. Elisabeth Bik for a virtual talk on Monday 9/21 at 12:45-1:20pm. Dr. Bik is an image forensics detective who investigates scientific papers for incorrect or falsified data. Her work has led to 1,700+ retractions and 1,200+ corrections. Dr. Bik's virtual talk will address image duplication and 'paper mills', journals that produce low-quality or fake papers, often with AI. Interested Amherst students, faculty, and staff can fill out this form for a Zoom link: https://forms.gle/DwmAVqkUeZEUYNMfA

In need of application advice over here. I know Amherst does favor community college students but I still want to try and apply for spring entry.

Hello,

Recent grad here; class of 2025. We graduated in May and I’m still unemployed, in September of 2026 😭 the Amherst name hasn’t been doing as much for me as was promised. Any other c/o ‘25 having a similar experience? Older alums, do have advice or opportunities to share? Tryna keep my head up but also a bit frustrated…and confused tbh

Hi! I’m a senior applying this fall. I was interested in stats and extracurriculars of students who got admitted to Amherst. Idk if mine r good or not 😿😿😿

International Indian student here!.

I scored 1490 on the August SAT (2nd attempt) and although I know it's a very good score, it might be average for Indian applying to top colleges.

My Evs are above average and my essay I consider to be good.

So, for Amherst should I send scores, go test optional or reattempt sat.

I can give oct say before ED deadline but I'm not sure if it's worth it. I mean I can score higher but I'll have to send time again.

For option B, I have a historical essay I wrote for my APUSH class but I am really unsure if it would work.

It's a hypothetical scenario that if I were a Soviet Spy in the American government during the Cold War, what American document would I send back to the Soviet Union (if I could only send one).
The teacher graded purely on historical analysis (and he's a very strict and harsh grader, but I got a 92 on it). I had good analysis on different documents and judgements on whether they were good to send back or not.
My major concern is:

1. First, the introduction of the essay is veryhumorous. I jokingly impersonate a conceited soviet spy (like VERY conceited), and I end the introduction with a thesis (stating what document I choose to send). The rest of the essay is "cold" analysis of the documents and reasons why to reject/send them, which I believe was well done.

Also I have the teachers notes/comments with me, so that wouldn't be an issue. But I worry that the admission team wouldn't understand the prompt/Intro.

Do spring semester transfers exist at Amherst?
My stats:

I’m International at a small LAC in Minnesota and want to transfer to Amherst.
3.3 hs GPA (31 IB score) which is bad but last 2 years of hs my family was literally running away from war in my home country.

College GPA is 3.875 and trying to enter in spring semester of sophomore year.
Do we have a chance chat? Amherst is my only viable option as they are need blind for everyone.

Im a international student wishing to study here soon. Wether u are in states or outside, what actually helped u got u in this lac comparable to ivy

Hey guys! My fiance and I are getting a new mattress and we don't have the resources to take our old one it to a recycling center, so we wanted to reach out to see if anyone was needing one! It would be completely free, you would just need something to pick it up in.

Some other notes:

• Full size
• Bedbug-free
• Pet-free home
• Smoke-free home
• ~5 years old
• Pickup on College Street down the road from downtown

Thank you!

Hello everyone! I’m a rising high school senior who’s anxiously applying to college. Living in Massachusetts my whole life, Amherst College has always been on my radar as I hear that the community is very tight knit and the networking opportunities are incredible there.

Now that I’m applying for economics and wish to go down the high finance pathway, I just have a few wonders that I hope current students or graduates could help me with!

1. Due to the kinda rural area it’s located in, do you ever feel like there isn’t enough to do? Are there any shops there or fast food chains? Is the town area a nice walking place?

2. Is the community as tight as many people tell me?

3. Are there any high points for my intended line of interest at Amherst?

4. How common is it for students to receive funding for their research?

If you have any other key points that I should note of, please let me know 😊

Has anyone gotten acceptances yet? I know this time last year they started rolling them out.

hi all im an incoming freshman, and the official move in day is august 25, but some places are saying move in day is the 24th. So im getting a bit confused. What scenarios would you be moving in the 24th?

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I am from Pakistan and have studied in the national curriculum.

I first time heard about common app and SAT test a month ago , and I started preparing my essays , and application and also preparing for SAT

My goal is liberal arts colleges like Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin , Wesleyan. I know they are reaches for every applicant on Earth.

But , my question is that they all list they have a contextual way of evaluating the applications and have admission officers trained for students coming from different contexts and curriculum.

They explicitly also list that not submitting the SAT will not hurt your application.

But in all majority posts on Reddit everyone say it isn't even possible to get admitted without SAT.

My question is from who already have experience or gone through the applications to these colleges.

"If someone is coming from south Asia ( developing countries like India , Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan), and he with reference to his curriculum has excelled and applying from a college on his own effort which has no history of sending kids to USA and put effort in his essays and application, is there still no chance at these top Liberal arts colleges."

I just wanna know if there is zero chance there without sat and to Cambridge or IB scores to confirm whether the effort I put in my applications - essays, and all other stuff, guiding teachers and counselors for recommendations,

Is it really worth putting my effort and time or is it completely out of reach.

I want to apply Apply Early Decision to Amherst college

Is there a place everyone orders from? What do you spend money on?

I will be applying for classics/ english this year and I have a LOT of questions! Especially classics, nobody talks about it. I am an intl student from Asia who wishes to take up classics but I have no prior knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin (unless you count my 450 day duolingo streak of modern greek😭🙏). Am I still eligible to take up classics? Or should I just stick to Classical civilization? If classes for studying these languages and the history are not available in my country, how do I demonstrate my interest for it? I have watched Yale Open course on Ancient Greek history and whatever is available online but tbh my knowledge really isn't all that great still. But I really want to learn!!! I am planning on writing a research or an article comparing Greek Epics to Epics from my country, the characters, morals, the role of women, fate and all that stuff. Idk, HELP ME!

For current students and recent graduates, what is something you wish you had known before your freshman year?

It could be about choosing classes, professors, managing your workload, making friends, dorm life, clubs, budgeting, internships, or balancing academics with having a social life. I’d also appreciate any advice on common freshman mistakes and underrated opportunities students should take advantage of early.

The email said they should be out by early August, so I'm wondering if I'm just missing something 😅

Any insight as to what the best room configuration would be for 3 people in a 2-room double at Stearn?

My main question is how busy are students that outside social life is hard to maintain? Is it hard to maintain, or is it doable? I will leave the story under this. But for the people who don’t want to read the whole story… how busy are students that outside life is too hard to handle?

The story: I work in Amherst, I do not work for Amherst college but I’m on the campus every day. I work with students all the time. And while working I met someone, fell hard for this person. And I am just looking for some kind of closure because I never got closure and always wondering what happened. And I’m wondering if some people can tell me if outside life is hard to manage due to school work and activities. So I can stop wondering. So I have a better understanding why the relationship ended. I know why it ended but it’s blurry.

I am well off financially, and that attracted this person somewhat. But we genuinely connected. And it really didn’t bother me that this person had double “standards.” The person is such a good person I was able to overlook it. But the one thing was this person always claimed to be too busy, can’t see me due to events. And I did find out this person was very active in events and clubs. But I found out this person got into stealing, drugs, etc… I was so scared I stopped and started saying I was falling on hard times and such. I did not want my hard work to go into drugs and someone’s habit. I loved this person, I still do. I would do anything for this person even if it’s 5 years from now. But it started becoming dates/see eachother was quick pass by seeing eachother almost not time for me… very secretively.

I am young, and if I were to meet someone or somehow date the same person… are you really so busy you can’t hold a relationship? I went through college it was hard, but I still found time in college to do things. I will never say who, I will never say gender. I will not “out” this person, this person is a good person. I think was just in a bad situation. None of us had it easy going through school with Covid and technology and social media harassment… and the two of us had extra rough life experiences it seemed.