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Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1360\u20131550, ACT 31\u201335. 38% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 17% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $23,367 a year on average with aid, $87,640 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $77,644 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $682,972 ahead with aid, $425,880 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($142,680); Economics ($141,730); Mathematics ($124,324).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 46% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: aid packages carry no loans; the college meets full demonstrated need.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Amherst College: 100, 317 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Blair Academy (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); The Williston Northampton School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026 / Classes of 2022-2025, counted column \"Class of 2026 Matriculation List\"); Punahou School (2.8 per class year, 11 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 \u2013 2025)). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/amherst-college.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Amherst College: 6, 27 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often The Chapin School (3.2 per class year, 16 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"); Archbishop Mitty High School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); National Cathedral School (1.0 per class year, 3 over 3 class years, 2023-2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/amherst-college.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/amherst-college.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":1086},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":1570},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":17478},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":23639}],"full_price":87640,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":23367,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/student/app/amherst","tuition_in_state":70480,"tuition_out_of_state":70480},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":77644,"median_6yr_after_entry":62537},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":27,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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