Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution[3]
The info from the page that you linked refers to graduate programs in general...of other institutions. Go to the menu on the left side of the page. Click on "application process." Now do you get it? These are guides to applying to other colleges for grad school, because Amherst doesn't offer graduate degrees.
Read this:Carnegie Foundation
Look under "Classification." Then look at what it says next to "Graduate Instructional Program.(not applicable)
Clearly I know little about Amherst. I’ll take you at your word if that link didn’t provide the grad school, it doesn’t exist. These types of schools are not on my radar. They are Tier 1 due to their endowment, not because of their research. Their academic output is slim — output as in research and contributions to academia. This is the standard. Just because a student attends Amherst does not mean that same student would be able to get into a school like UC Berkley or A&M or U Texas. It’s a different thing entirely. I’m not suggesting they aren’t good schools, of course. No doubt due to their endowment and limited size, the education they provide is excellent — Tier 1. But the entrance requirements will be very different from an actual research university that changes the world once a month with its output. That’s what I mean by the graduate school. That’s what I mean by getting in. Many perfect-score high-school students cannot get in to UT or A&M. Perfect 4.0 (and higher) are sent elsewhere. It is beyond extremely competitive to get in.