<p>A friend (who actually applied to BC this year, guess they messed up) received a summer program brochure thing from BC the other day. The intro page says something like “be where 32,000 applicants want to be,” something to that effect (I’ll look up exact wording later).</p>
<p>32,000 apps is a huge increase over 26,500 from last year! Does anyone know anything about this? I was accepted EA, just wondering if this is really true. If so, BC is REALLY growing in popularity.</p>
<p>It is probably over 30,000.</p>
<p>That link says that it's close to 29,000.</p>
<p>EA acceptance looks very precious now...</p>
<p>i got this mailing.</p>
<p>this is what it says verbatim:
"Be where 32,000 freshman applicants want to be, in Boston, at Boston College."</p>
<p>great, now I feel even worse!!! I am going to go crazy waiting until April 15th!!!!</p>
<p>it feels like every college has gotten more applicants...I hate common app!</p>
<p>Well, no matter how many applicants BC gets, they still need a class of around 2,250. So even if application numbers are way up, unless people are accepted AND decide to attend, simply applying to more schools won't "take anyone's spot" at BC.</p>
<p>wow, thank god i got accepted ea. i think i wouldnt have gotten in if i had applied ea. i cant wait to decide where im going :) financial aid sucks.. if it were no object, i would have sent in my deposit to bc the day i got my letter</p>
<p>i applied there, i got about 5 of those packets.. dont really know why and i was pretty confused thinking.. do they think im a junior?.. anyway thats a sickk number of applications, kinda bumming..how many days until april 15th?</p>
<p>With that many applicants, do you think they will have to pretty much rely on essays and recs to choose who gets accepted? Because so many will have the sat scores, they will need to go by some other method, I think.</p>
<p>AH i hope they look at everything (yes, the essays)</p>
<p>yea, theyre going to look at everything like they normally would. 26500 applicants last year which still huge, im sure theyre used to handling large numbers. its just more work for them this year ;)</p>
<p>correct me if i'm wrong, but $70 app. fee X 32,000 apps = $2.24 million dollars, granted some will get fee waivers and such, but isn't that insane?</p>
<p>NEU said they got 30,000 apps...doesn't seem ridiculous at all.</p>
<p>the waitlist should be quite big this year since the number of apps going up makes yield harder to predict (it will probably go down, but by how much is tought to tell)</p>