D’21 ED2 here, but reading through all these submissions and excited for all of you getting to find out tomorrow - best of luck!
Does anyone know the chances of someone with below a 4.0 weighted GPA being accepted ED1? Are the chances higher than RD?
Hi! Are these the statistics for this year or the previous year?
For this year!
Depends on a lot of factors- if you have below a 4.0 with a rigorous course load, your chances are substantially better than with an easier one. The acceptance rate is always higher ED, so I would say yes, the chance is higher than if you were to apply RD. There’s really no right answer. Have I seen it happen, yes, but does it happen often, no. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the info 2025student03. So I guess that means BC has filled about 800 of its slots via ED 1. Assuming that 41% acceptance figure is accurate, you still need to keep in mind which school you are applying to. For business and nursing, it’s probably below 41%, for arts and sciences, probably a little higher. Not sure about education. In any event, good luch to all applicants.
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I think we also have to keep in mind that colleges are hungry for money right now, and those who do not display much financial need may be more appealing to colleges than ever. It is a business after all.
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What is this email that goes out to guidance counselors?
i agree…but BC says they are need-blind but they obviously see on the application if you are applying for financial aid or not. my thought process was if you don’t apply for financial aid you may have a slightly better chance of being accepted.
BC is need blind. Really. It isn’t part of the evaluation of the readers. Can’t say that during the last few wait list spots tbh. Don’t worry.
The numbers last year are close to those being mentioned here for ed1 this year. A little less imho. But we will see.
Ed2 was less of course. And rd around 18 percent or so in reality. Take out a lot of spots for sports, 350 international students or so and it’s a bit tougher than that. 20 to 22 percent overall for 2020 as reported, a bit lower in real terms for the pool for non recruited and less your overseas applicants.
Always a very deep field too. Lots of super qualified students.
If anything I know they were actively looking for AHANA students, first gen and students with significant need.
It’s a core part of the Jesuit mission and is being counted in the big rankings.
That makes sense, thank you for the great insight!
You say that in your opinion the numbers are a little less…a little less applicants or little less acceptances?
Sorry. I haven’t gone back to the record. But I recall close to 900 accepted and similar number of applicants last year.
It was mostly a directional response to the post regarding the need for money in this coin 19 environment.
If slightly less accepted and or similar to last year it says that to me that there no increased monetary focus in the process.
Just my observation.
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Yea, completely agree. I had this belief before seeing the stats, but now it is clear that there were no monetary motives behind the admission decisions.
I would say that money is a factor at different times and places. Later in the cycle and with the last few spots it may be a basic understanding of what they need to fill out a diverse and financially responsible class.
I don’t think that in this early round it’s much of an issue. Also the average junior AO would have zero knowledge of the larger financial picture. They wouldn’t actively search for full pay students and dismiss qualified applicants. It’s not how it works.
During wait list more likely if the admission directors are told that the class is financially unstable relative to a target, that’s when these matters have an impact. Imho.
@privatebanker My read on the numbers is slightly different: last year I believe 40% of class of 2024 was from the ED rounds, so with 2400 enrolled I calculate that to be 960 students from both ED rounds. If this year BC has taken 800 from ED1 only, that seems to imply an increase to ED intake to something closer to 50% if you assume ED2 intake will be at least half of ED1? Or have I got my numbers wrong?
What was the acceptance rate from ed1 last year and the pool size. I seems like it was around 40 percent. Maybe more applicants this year ed1 and they learned something last year and expanded the number. 140 more acceptances is a good size number.
My records from real time last year haven’t migrated over. I had good inside data. I just can’t remember specifically.
Last year, the acceptance rate for both ED1 and ED2 combined was 37%. They had a total number of 2,750 applicants for both rounds, and they filled 42% of the class.
Thanks @evergreen5, do you happen to know how many people applied to ED1 and/or ED2 for 2024?
@privatebanker Last year, BC accepted about 36% of 1700 ED1 apps (comes out to around 630), denied 700, and deferred the rest. ED2 was around 1050 and ED 1 and 2 acceptance rates were very close, within a percent, with total ED acceptance rate stated somewhere as 37%.
They tend to round their numbers before reporting. Reality could always be a little more one way or another, but our calculations should be close enough for our back-of-the-envelope discussion.