<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>