<p>Thanks notakid, we all appreciate it!</p>
<p>@jayivy I believe the college board stat is of the people with the listed SAT scores/gpa 49% got accepted</p>
<p>How do you know if you got into the Honors College or not?</p>
<p>@notakid hmmm on my account it just lists “admissions decision, financial assistance decision, and dean’s welcome” nothing about merit aid though. I suppose that means i wasn’t offered any :/</p>
<p>We have the same question. My daughter was accepted…yippee…and received an award but it didn’t say anything about honors…</p>
<p>To JayIvy, Google Boston University Common Data Set, preface with 2009-2010, for one search and then 2010-2011, for another. You will find applicant totals, total offers of acceptance etc. Although this year’s data is not yet available, with 44K applicants this year, BU, for the first time (probably in its history) gets below a 50% acceptance rate. BU’s yield is not high, and with a class 3900 it takes a lot of acceptances to get students whose families can afford the price tag and for the University to get top students. Note some earlier posts regarding Trustee Scholars. A couple BU Trustee Scholars (full tuition for 4 years) were also accepted to MIT, and with little if any aid. These students now need to decide, do I go to MIT at full cost, or do I go to BU with a $40K+ student tuition discount each year? BU reaches for top students, often more than 700 valedictorians in each new class. If you enroll and go to the summer orientations, you will hear how you are a part of a class of 3900, of which there were 44,000 applicants.
Its not an 8% accept rate, its rather a 49% accept rate, and then admits are whittled down by decisions not to attend by those who cannot afford the cost, have selected more prestigious schools despite attractive merit awards, highly qualified students using BU as a safety school, and other reasons. Look at the yield, off the top of my head in '09-'10 there was something like 38K applicants and over 22K admits. And that year out of 1100+ students on the wait-list, over 770 were accepted. Whereas in 2010-2011, only 8 came off the wait-list for acceptance. Check it out, see what the data says. BU is a nice place to go to school, outstanding amenities, 4 years of housing guaranteed, new Honors College if you can be selected, accelerated medical and dental programs, an overall ability to provide many unique programs no matter the scale, and an intensified commitment towards rigor and low grade inflation to convince and attract serious students to go there. And Boston is an outstanding city for college students. Boston and Cambridge are booming in terms of construction for bio-tech industries with no fewer than 8 sites under construction - the most in the nation right now (probably the world). Google Boston Globe with descriptive terms and the article will be found. Good luck with your choices for college and hopefully you will make them in a way that allows you no regret. Respectfully, Mr. VC</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing that up, mrvc. I’m still waiting on Columbia, Cornell, and NYU. But I already fell in love with BU!</p>
<p>Where does it say if we got into Honors? I was accepted with a 20K a year merit award, but I was hoping to get into Honors.</p>
<p>^As you may know Kilichand Honors College will be beginning its third year with this new class. Currently, there are just under 140 freshman and sophs combined. By 2016 they target having 400 students. My understanding is that there is an extra essay on the common app. that is completed by interested candidates. Should you be selected, I believe it will be noted in one of the admissions notifications that are on-line. They also balance the Honors College with students from all disciplines, arts & sciences, engineering, communications, visual arts, etc. Given that it is a new school, I’m sure that they have a lot to work on in assembling a class. And if students whom they offer admission do not choose to go, then there may be some alternative way to be selected, perhaps over the summer or even in the fall - I speculate with this last statement. There’s actually a thread on this that I initiated not long ago that may afford more information. Also, the website may provide some contact phone numbers for queries. Hope this helps. Good Luck, Mr. VC</p>
<p>ACCEPTED into College of Communication!!
GPA UW: 3.67
ACT: 32
4 APs, 5s on all exams
4 years American Red Cross volunteer & youth board member</p>
<p>Oh man, rejected! That’s okay though, I got UCLA. Heh.</p>
<p>Yay I got in :3
They pretty much covered my tuition and room & board expenses with a 40k scholarship, federal grants, and loans.</p>
<p>Although not my number one choice, definitely within my top 3~5.</p>
<p>Accepted
GPA 4.3 weighted on 4
ACT 31</p>
<p>Where do you see merit scholarship on the website?</p>
<p>Rejected engineering.</p>
<p>I’m really disappointed. It was my top choice for over a year now. I thought I would definetly be getting in, and it was just a matter of money. It really sucks getting turned down from a college you’ve been dreaming about getting into for years.</p>
<p>I was wrong, you can still send in CSS! Read it incorrectly, you just can’t get grants at this point</p>
<p>Waitlisted. I am not complaining, I was wishing when would I see the rejection from BU and move on :D</p>
<p>Anybody else got waitlisted?</p>
<p>And another question; I applied for Trustee scholarship, do they look at this while making decisions? Because I was just curious, was I waitlisted because I applied for the Trustee, or was it just based on my application?</p>
<p>Accepted! College of Engineering
3.7 GPA
Lots of E.C
California
1790 SAT</p>
<p>Accepted to CAS with a Presidential Scholarship ($20,000/yr)! I had also applied for the honors program, but it is not mentioned in my letter. Does this mean that I did not get into the honors program?</p>
<p>@hcohen44: For me, there is a link on the side which says Merit Award Decision (this is listed under Admission Decision).</p>
<p>@phr34k I was also waitlisted! I’m waiting for some sort of statistic to see the possibility of me actually getting in.</p>
<p>Rejected to Accelerated Dental Program, but accepted into CAS with $43,500 financial aid!
Had my heart set on the dental program, but after UCLA’s waitlist yesterday, I’m really happy I got accepted somewhere.
GPA 4.22
SAT 2270
California</p>