Am I Right?

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<p>Hi, my name is Eduardo i’m new here and i’m glad I found this site.
Right now i’m in junior year and I plan to attend business school when I graduate from HS.
One of my top choices is BC.
The other day I was going through the college’s profile on BusinessWeek and something caught my attention. It says that the acceptance rate for freshmen (undergraduate of course) is 84%, which means it’s not hard to get into!
Why is this? I imagine that the competitiveness of the undergraduate BBA applicants is not as high as for those applying for the MBA.
Businessweek data:
MBA:
Applicants who were accepted to the most recent class: 38 %</p>

<p>BBA:
Percent of freshmen admitted into business program: 86 %</p>

<p>And you can see the same tendency with most schools that offer a 4 year BBA:
U of Texas- Austin: BBA-72% MBA-34%
You can also see this with: villanova, lehigh, bu, etc!</p>

<p>Am i right or have I misunderstood what it says?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>(Where I got everything from)
Boston College:
MBA:
[FULL</a> TIME MBA Profile: BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/full_time_mba_profiles/bostonc.html]FULL”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

<p>BBA:
[Boston</a> College : Undergraduate Profile – BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/undergraduate_mba_profiles/bostonc.html]Boston”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

<p>Texas Austin:
[University</a> of Texas – Austin: Undergraduate Profile – BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/undergraduate_mba_profiles/texasaustin.html]University”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

<p>[FULL</a> TIME MBA Profile: BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/full_time_mba_profiles/texasaustin.html]FULL”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

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<p>I think Businessweek made a typo there, 86% is astronomically too high for CSOM; heck, it’s too high even for my state school (66%). I remember CSOM being around 25-26%, a little lower than the school’s average of 26% last year and 27% the year before that. </p>

<p>I think some poor intern had really made a mess of thing at BW. When you think about it, a 86% admission for CSOM really skews the data for the other schools. BC admits about 26% from its application pool. If CSOM, which has 20% of all incoming freshmen, has a 86% admission rate, that would mean A&S, CSON, and LSOE all have admission numbers in the high-teens to low-twenties, and that’s simply impossible. BC would never allow for such wide discrepancy.</p>

<p>The day when CSOM has 86% admission rate and A&S has 19% is the day when Western Capitalism has totally collapsed (which we might be heading toward).</p>

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<p>If you scroll down a little farther on the undergrad link, you’ll see this:</p>

<p>Applicants enrolled in program (yield):36 %
Applicants admitted (selectivity) to program: 23 %
Total undergraduate business program applicants:6223</p>

<p>This is where the numbers make sense. 6223 students applied, 23% got in (1431 students), and 36% of that matriculated (515 students). 515 is about a quarter is the overall class population (2250).</p>