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2 16SUPPLEMENTTOTHE 0 COMMONAPPLICATION
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Office of Admission Amherst College PO Box 5000 Amherst, MA 010025000

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Please provide a legible, valid e-mail address t hat you access on a regular basis. If your e-mail server uses a filter, add admissa pp@am herst.edu to your list of accepta ble e-mail senders. T he Admission Office will send you several e-mail messages after processing your a pplication. Please telep hone t he Admission Office at (413) 542-2328 if you have not received any e-mail s from us by December 1 (for Early Decision a pplicants) or February 1 (for Regular Decision a pplicants). If you c hange your e-mail address, you s hould contact us immediately.

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FO R A LL A P P LICANT S Have you applied to Amherst College before? Yes No If yes, when? If youre sending the Common Application Arts Supplement, please visit www.amherst.edu/admission/apply/firstyear/arts for more information and check here If youre sending the Common Application Athletic Supplement, please check here A D DIT IONA L QU EST IONS Do you have any siblings, parents, or grandparents who are alumni or current students at Amherst College? list name, year of graduating class, and relationship to you (list additional names on a separate sheet of paper)
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O PT IONA L QU EST ION Have you met with an Amherst representative at any time in the last year? his or her relationship to Amherst Yes No If yes, please identify the person you met and

Your completed Supplement should be received at our Office of Admission by November 15 (Early Decision) or January 1 (Regular Decision).
2016 Amherst College First-Year Supplement to t he Common Application FY/SCA1

SU P P L EM ENT ESSAY In addition to the essay youre asked to write as part of the Common Application, Amherst requires a second essay of no more than 300 words. We do not offer interviews as part of the application process at Amherst. However, your essays provide you with an opportunity to speak to us. Please keep this in mind when responding to one of the following quotations. 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 insightinsight 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. Hes the happiest man on earth when hes performing, but when the show is over, hes 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.
Iln Stavans, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College From The Writer in Exile: an interview with Iln 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 collegeare 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 Differences

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, first African-American to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals

O PT IONA L R ES EA RC H SU P P L EM ENT Have you engaged in significant research in the natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, social sciences or humanities that was undertaken independently of your high school curriculum? Yes No If yes, please provide a brief description of the research project (5075 words maximum):

Where, when and under whose mentorship did you conduct this research?

Has your research been submitted to any national competition (e.g., Siemens, Intel) and/or accepted for professional publication? Yes No If yes, please provide additional details:

2016 Amherst College First-Year Supplement to t he Common Application

FY/SCA2