<p>What was BU acceptance rate for this year?</p>
<p>some people keep saying bu is so easy to get in…and stuff.
makes me really mad…</p>
<p>It's around 50%. I never thought it was that easy to get into until this year when just about everyone from my school who applied got in. Only one person got waitlisted and there were like 20 people who applied.</p>
<p>well i'm from a really competitive school in socal and i know two people who got rejected. one of them was the assistant editor in chief of the school's newspaper. so i think people saying bu is easy to get in is probably someone with a 2300 or something</p>
<p>couturegrl: I second that... It's basically the same thing at my high school in SoCal. Btw, which part of SoCal r u from?</p>
<p>It depends on the school though. Some schools are definatly more competitive than others, plus that acceptance rate is offset by the fact that if someone has stats too low for one of the main schools, they fairly often accept them at CGS instead. I also think the acceptance rate is high because BU is a fairly common safety school for kids with ivy stats.</p>
<p>Well, last year I think that the acceptance rate was about 52%, but this year it definitely went down, along with almost every other college in nation due to the population spike.</p>
<p>I'd guess the rate went down to about 49-50%</p>
<p>I'd like to see the acceptance rates and stats of those accepted/waitlisted/rejected either at just the 4 year schools (minus CGS) collectivly or individually</p>
<p>shiba411: i'm from san diego. you?</p>
<p>couturegrl: Kool...I'm from Orange County.</p>
<p>Pretty much everyone from my school who applied got in. And I mean everyone.</p>
<p>Well somehow about 15,000 people that applied didn't get in. Boston also has some top rated programs in the country that I can't imagine they let just anyone in to.</p>
<p>This reminds me of the University of Cincinnati, just not quite at the same level. UC has an acceptance rate of like 80 some percent and is considered a 3rd tier school, but they too have some top-rated programs. Their Design/Art is top in the country and due to their rolling admissions it's just not very competitive admissions. The music program is a lot more competitive however.</p>
<p>The point is, not everything can really be based off admission rate. I don't know if this is what you're doing to compare schools, but I know I am nomatter how hard I fight it.</p>
<p>well most people that apply to bu also apply to ivy leagues so i can imagine they let 55% of all applicants in. it's not everyone.</p>
<p>To get a 50% acceptance rate in a school like, say, Haverford you only need a few hundred applicants where as the 50% rate at a BU or Penn State size schoool reflects an astronomical amount of people interested in applying. If more "qualified" kids apply then more will be accepted. So that can change things considerably. Many Ivy legacy kids apply to Ivys without the actual grades and although a few get in many don't thus one of a zillion things that keep their rates low. </p>
<p>I too would love to see the stats for kids at BU if you take out CGS as well as see the acceptance rate for Comm, Eng., SMG, the MD prgram and of course the University Professors program that has all kids in the 2400 SAT range.</p>
<p>I got into SMG with a average SAT (1900) and I'm from Canada. Does being in IB give you an advantage?</p>
<p>The School of Music has about a 30-33% acceptance rate every year, for what that's worth.</p>
<p>How about the school of communications?</p>
<p>Stats for BU (According to the Princeton Review):</p>
<p>Avg. SAT: 1278
Avg. GPA: 3.49
Acceptance Rate: 57%
Yield: 24%</p>
<p>I'm not sure if these stats include CGS.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.princetonreview.com%5B/url%5D">www.princetonreview.com</a></p>
<p>Max is at it again trolling dozens of school boards other than NE. Heres the CURRENT class profile for 2009 of attending not just accepted students. Average in the low 1300s. So with a quarter of BU having sores of 1420 and above its not an easy school. The average in the small University Professors program is 2370.</p>
<p>wawoo. 30-33% ? for school of music? what about school of visual art? probably much higher than school of music?</p>
<p>Dogs,</p>
<p>Calm down, those are the stats from Princeton Review. Are you saying that the PR stats are wrong? But since we are on the subject, what percentage of BU's class is made up of CGS students? </p>
<p>And to set the record straight, I think that BU is a very good school (esp. at the graduate level). BU has several grad programs that are in the top 20.</p>