Application Process
You’re Greater Than the Sum of Your Parts
Each year, UMass Amherst seeks a new class of students who will bring their unique strengths to this campus community—inspiration, talent, smarts, experience, maturity, individuality. Collectively, these students create something entirely new, and with their success, they contribute to the campus, to each other, and to their own individual development.
Bringing together a class that will successfully continue this tradition of collective creation requires thoughtfulness and foresight. We look for students who will contribute a broad range of experiences and qualities that grow from their particular interests and skills, their social and cultural backgrounds, their geographical roots, and all the other elements that make each student valued. Living and learning with each other, we want students to benefit from the uniqueness of their peers, their diversity, and the connections among them.
When we review an application we do not use a set formula with a checklist of specifics. Rather, we look for a combination of talents, experiences, interests, mastery, and goals that shows a student who will contribute to the community, succeed here, and then take what they learn and accomplish at UMass Amherst back out into the world.
