Amherst, MA. 340 fields, verified each cycle. from the Department of Education, the Common Data Set and the school's own bulletin, not scraped once and forgotten.
“Boston is the campus, for better and worse. No quad to sit on, no bubble to stay in. I loved it.”
Alum, 2024, College of Communication
“I was in a lab the second semester of sophomore year. Professors answer email here.”
Junior, Engineering
“The education is worth it. The cost is not the number on the website.”
Sophomore, College of Arts and Sciences
“Consulting and finance firms recruit through Questrom. Three internships before senior year.”
Senior, Questrom
“Four years of guaranteed housing in a city this expensive is the underrated benefit.”
Senior, College of Arts and Sciences
“Sixty of my sixty four credits transferred. Get the agreement in writing first.”
Transfer, 2025, Engineering
“My funding package covered five years. That decision was made for me before I arrived, and it changed everything.”
Doctoral candidate, Biology
“The clinical placements are in Boston hospitals. You are working with patients in your first year.”
Second year, Medicine
“My advisor has eleven students. Ask how many before you accept an offer anywhere.”
Doctoral candidate, Economics
“The part time law option let me keep working. Four years instead of three, no debt.”
Third year, Law
“Teaching load is two sections a term. Budget for that when you plan your dissertation timeline.”
Doctoral candidate, English
“Master of Public Health placement was strong. Career services is thinner than the undergraduate side.”
Supplemental prompt
175 wordsIf you would like to share more about yourself that is not captured elsewhere in your application, please tell us more here.
Supplemental prompt
29 wordsIf you would like to add more about why you are drawn to your academic interests (including if you are undecided), please share more here.
Supplemental prompt
75 wordsIf 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.
Supplemental prompt
50 wordsWhere, when and under whose mentorship did you conduct this research? (Provide mentor's name, title and institutional affiliation.)
Supplemental prompt
50 wordsIf your research has been submitted for national consideration (e.g., Concord Review, Regeneron STS) and/or accepted for professional publication, please provide additional details here.
The school's published guidance, in plain terms. The line is authorship, not tooling.
What is allowed
Research, brainstorming and feedback on your own drafts. Using a tool to understand a prompt or to check your writing is not what the policy is aimed at.
What is not
Submitting text you did not write. The application asks for your voice, and a generated essay is a misrepresentation under the same rule that covers a ghostwritten one.
How it is read
Readers judge the file, not a detector score. An essay that sounds like nobody in particular is the failure mode, whatever produced it.
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