<p>The little packet I got with my acceptance letter claims that they accept one in ten applicants... but in the past their numbers have been more like 1 in 3.</p>
<p>The only numbers I can find to back up their claim comes from the acceptance letter "You have been selected over 30,000 applicants for one of only 2,000 seats in the freshman class"</p>
<p>Now this would be a rate of one in fifteen applicants, but thats pretty hard to believe, since that would make it the same as Harvard.</p>
<p>*So I assume the 2,000 is the number of people who they expect will actually end up attending. This is a very typical number for them. *</p>
<p>But if they actually follow through with accepting one in ten, there would be ~3,000 people accepted, which means MOST accepted students would have to go, which again history has shown is not realistic. Normally 10,000 kids are accepted, and a fifth of them actually end up attending. Keep in mind that this is an incredibly popular safety/target school for people applying to a lot of the top colleges. </p>
<p>*Are they lying about their intention of accepting one in ten? Or are they just in over their heads? Or even... do you think they have some kind of plan which ensures that about 2/3 of the accepted student actually attend? *</p>
<p>(Note, after writing all this I realized that I wrote a lot, so I just bolded the main points)</p>
<p>Ok I caught where they tried to trick people</p>
<p>It says in big letters on the pamphlet “1 IN 10” </p>
<p>And then it says in tiny letters “Every year more than 25,000 students apply to Binghamton University yet only one in 10 earns the privilege to enroll in our freshman class”</p>
<p>They conveniently use the term enroll instead of “be accepted” as a had foolishly assumed. </p>
<p>In fact, the one in ten stat now sounds really bad: its telling how many people had somewhere better to go…</p>
<p>Yeah word. Binghamton is a fallback for a lot of Ivy league quality students though. A lot of the students Binghamton accepts are overqualified, and, like I just said, a fall back for them.</p>
<p>this is true. Its great, cause you have students of very high caliber that attend Binghamton. So if you situate yourself with the correct crowd, you can have a great experience. I have had many Professors that have obtained their PhD’s from Ivy leagues. You will rarely find an opportunity to have great value like Bing. There are very few reasons why I would tell a student not to attend. If they got into a top school for business, then I would suggest to attend that school, over Binghamton’s School of management, primarily due to the importance of school name in the business world. Other than that, Binghamton is a leader in many. it is very quickly building its reputation in the pre-health world. I was recently at a dental school interview. and a women came in, asked everyone where they go to school ( 10 ppl), did not make any comments until I had said I attend Binghamton…she replied exactly : " wow, thats a great school. I know its great for pre-med". I was a bit shocked, because it was unexpected. Another incident with my friend taking a winter course, they had to go around and state some info about themself on the first day. she said she went to Binghamton, and the professor commented about how it was a great school. </p>
<p>But overall, unless you are going into finance or economics, I suggest you take this acceptance as a blessing.</p>