ik they only request mid-year grades from differed applicants but I assume if you send it in, they will. email your admissions person and make sure If anything
Really? According to the Common App, BC wants mid-year grades for all RD applicants.
yea it says it on the portal (I was deferred ED so idk if you have this in your portal):
"The admission committee only requests that deferred applicants forward us midyear grades. "
@1234nj @jahjah400326 @homerdog The RD round requires mid-year grades. The statement that @1234nj is referring to is merely distinguishing ED accepted from ED-deferred-to-RD. ED-accepted students do not need to send a mid-year report.
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Applications were up 36% this year! Half of the class of 2025 has been admitted ED. See
A tough year to be applying to colleges RD.
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RD has 36,000 applications for about 1200 spots?
right. But they’ll accept a lot more than 1200 because not all will enroll. Maybe they’ll accept three times that.
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Also, expect a huge waitlist. Last year it was approx. 6000.
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Last year, BC’s overall yield rate was 31%, this includes ED applicants. It is undoubtedly somewhat lower for RD applicants alone and this year it will likely be lower still because students are applying to more schools. This likely means that they will have to admit much more than 1200/0.31 = 3870 students to fill the 1200 seats. Or, as has been suggested, they might choose to rely on waiting lists rather than admitting many more RD applicants.
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I think most colleges doing that magic “3”.
By my calculations, the yield for 2024 in RD was roughly 21%. It seems reasonable that the admission office would anticipate a lower yield from the RD round for 2025 - that’s probably why they took such a large percent of the class during ED this year. While no one knows exactly what yield they are anticipating, my personal guess is that the RD acceptance rate will be somewhere in the mid teens.
“unprecedented selectivity” for RD.
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Does anyone know when are the decisions scheduled to be announced?
@2021_Yay_College Upthread, some posters reported receiving an email that decisions would go out during the week of March 22, and that they’ll tell you the exact date the week before. (My money would be on Thurs of that week, but anything is possible.)
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Nice article - thx for sharing
I agree…I suspect the RD acceptance rate will be in the 12-15% range.
I bet the rate is around 5%.
4000/36000 is 11% admitted in RD. Not that any of this matters to any one student. It is what it is. Clearly a low admit rate for RD.
You’re right, it could end up being even lower than the 12-15%. I assumed a lower yield for this year (25%) given propensity of applicants to apply to many more schools. Assumed 4,800 acceptances for 37,500 applications (36,600 RD applications plus an estimate of 900 ED deferrals)…this landed me @ 12.8%. Could certainly be higher or lower depending upon how they choose to factor/mitigate yield and actual number of ED deferrals.
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Yield for the RD round, by itself, was around 21% last year. It is reasonable to expect yield to be lower this year. 1025 RD seats, RD yield of, say, 17% = 6029 accepted RD, would be 16% RD acceptance rate. It’s just impossible to guess what RD yield they are expecting - if they are feeling uncertain in their yield estimates, which is reasonable, they will probably be conservative in their RD acceptances and then plan to use the waitlist.
I did notice that for 2024, they ended up with a class of 2400, which is about 100 over their stated goal of 2300. Hard to guess what happened there, whether that was intentional, though perhaps they expected more summer melt than actually occurred, since their covid plan involved opening campus.
They overenrolled and had forced triples for class of 2023 too.
I wonder if they’ll like the RD kids who applied by the scholarship deadline. Shows interest at least even if they applied RD.