News & Events

September 04, 2019 The number of military veterans, the percentage of students who are the first in their families to go to college, the importance of November 15 and other critical information about this year’s new students.

August 29, 2018 It may have been 90+ degrees and muggy on campus on Aug. 28, but that didn’t stop a mammoth—not woolly, thank goodness—from appearing on the quad to greet nearly 500 new Amherst students who had arrived for Orientation.