@JavaNightowl In 2018 300 CGS students enrolled in September and 300 in January. This year all 600 CGS students will enroll in January. That accounts for most of the shrinkage in the September class. January students do not count in published admissions statistics.
Also the total number of applications for 2018 was 64,470 not 60,825 so your figures are off. The total number of applications decreased for 2019.
http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/six-quick-stats-about-who-applied-to-the-class-of-2022/
Thanks Tom. You are correct, my data was taken from the Common Data Set for 2017-2018, updated in march 2018, which is the Fall 2017 application. We will not have precise data to analyze for 2018 until they publish the 2018-2019 Common Data Set which should be shortly. Nevertheless, the comparison from 2017 to 2019 remains striking. Its the data hound in me that is intrigued by this stuff. I suspect that BU would make an interesting case study in the changing patterns of college admission.
From a student perspective, I am not sure that increasing emphasis on ED and a college admissions process which is pushed earlier and earlier in the year is a good thing. The high school senior year is becoming less relevant. But I am sure there are two sides to every debate.
@airway1 @NJMAN2500 I got in ED1 with a 1290 super scored and I’m a first-generation student!
@Binder321 how much are you pay per year, if you don’t mind me asking
I think the advantage of ED is reduced stress for students and families for students to focus back on their studies. Also easier for colleges to get best match students who are excited to join the school. The drawback is FA and merit scholarship for ED as of now in some cases.
@JavaNightowl - college admissions are transforming. Won’t be surprised to see colleges will start EA with ED, with a shorter response date. It will allow serious students to commit and reduce maddening 15-20 applications per applicants. The key challenge is stupid matrix use by news media and therefore society.
I was accepted at CAS with full tuition, RD applicant, first gen! So happy!!!
Accepted RD! 
super ?
1330 SAT
Tons of EC’s (club heads, varsity sport)
3.0 gpa
No APs senior year but 2 junior year.
Still don’t know how I got in lol
Decision: Admitted
Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 34 (35 English, 35 Math, 33 Reading, 32 Science)
SAT II: Math 740 Physics 800
Weighted UC GPA: 4.08 Unweighted GPA 3.77
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH 4, AP Lang 4, AP Physics 1 5, AP Physics 2 5
IB (place score in parenthesis): None
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Gov/Econ, AP Lit, Spanish 3, Computer Game Design,
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Acting in school plays as well as in various summer productions out side of school for all 4 years, Playing Piano for more than 10 years, various school clubs
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club junior and senior summer about 50 hours all together,
Part of a club that surfs with underprivileged kids, but only had about 10 hours
Joined Key Club senior year.
Volunteered to help my piano teacher teach younger kids.
Summer Activities:
As I mentioned, Boys and Girls Club volunteering
I did theater camps and acted in their productions
Essays (rating 1-10, details): I’d say 8, but Idk for sure. I wrote one really good essay about how I grew up having Autism. I talked about how this made it hard to make friends and made me struggle in school. The other were decent but not great. I wrote one about how much I enjoyed acting and volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club.
Supplemental Review or LOR submission: No
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Economics
State: California
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Public
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $100,000-$150,000
First Generation: No
Reflection
Strengths: ACT for sure, Weighted GPA
Weaknesses: Unweighted GPA, rigor of classes (my school offers like 25 AP classes and I only took 8-9)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Idk
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: SDSU, UC Riverside, CSU Chico, Santa Clara University, CU Boulder, University of Oregon, UCI, Boston University
Waitlisted: UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly SLO, UCSD, UC Davis
Rejected: UCSB, UCLA, UCB, Pitzer College, USC
General Comments: I’m pretty excited about this. I’m going to admitted students day this Friday. At this point it’s either BU or UC Irvine.
We got both email and then physical mail. Both were wonderful and welcoming.
Hey guys, I got into CAS RD. I was wondering if there were any online/WhatsApp groups for BU '23, and how to join.
@Anythingatall If you go onto your BU portal and scroll down, there’s a link to the 2023 Facebook group. You just need to have a Facebook account to join! Hope this helps ?
HELP!!!*
accepted to CGS
GPA: 3.83 UW/4.25W(10-12 4.36)
SAT 1480, 680 English 800 Math, 18 Writing
SAT Subject molecular biology 790
non-native speaker, moved to America at 13 years old
12 APs (was 13, but I dropped AP Chem 2nd semester senior year) break down of APs: 10 taken at school, 2 self studied and got 5s
ECs: peer tutor at school for biology and math, author/copy editor at school newspaper, art studio, 160 hours of internship experience at a biology lab at UCI
two philosophy classes at local community college, got As in both
published a 500,000 words Chinese novel at 13, which got 1.2 million of views online and i got interviewed by a TV station for this
love out door adventures
very good recs
I’m debating between UCSD and BU 
my intended major is bio and thats what UCSD accepted me for, but BU put me in CGS… ;(
Help:(
also congrats on all who got in!
@hello trace- both UCSD and BU are large universities with 18K+ and 28K+ undergraduate enrollment. They have similar ranks. In Biological sciences and medicines, both are similarly ranked. For further internships, both California and Massachusetts have similar opportunities. I would make a decision on basis of money, preference for location and close to home. Btw, congrats! My preference would be UCSD for their large campus and UC connect.
Thank you so much!!!
DD just heard she is off the waitlist! After getting WL at her top two schools (BU & NEU) she ended up committing to another school so now she needs to decide what to do. Good problem to have!
Congrats! Do you know when they will post the financial aid award? Got off the waitlist too, but is wondering about the financial aid.
The odds of coming off the wait list at BU have historically been extremely low.
But it happened to me. I received an email titled “Good News from BU” last week.
You can see from an earlier post that I was really disappointed not to get into BU and I said in my post that I was determined to re-present myself. So I was genuinely thrilled to get the offer . However it turned out to be a very difficult decision.
After sending BU my continued letter (email) of interest a few weeks ago I researched the other universities that made me offers and visited a couple of them that I had not visited before. One of those visits resonated with me in a surprisingly special and unexpected way. After doing a week of further research,and talking to students and professors I enrolled at SEAS (School of Engineering and Applied Science) at George Washington University
Then, out of the blue, I come off the wait list at BU. Last Sunday I drove up to BU to think about my decision. I walked around the campus. I visited the Computer Science Department. BU was everything I remembered and more! It was my first choice school when I submitted all my applications and I love Boston. It is a fantastic school.
But I have decided to honor my commitment to GW. It is the right fit for me. The interdisciplinary opportunities for a computer scientist within a compact and dedicated engineering school is right for me. I will remain a life long Red Sox fan but I relish the opportunity to live in Washington DC for a while, It is very different from my New England roots and the experience will broaden me. So I sat down and wrote an email to the Admissions department at BU declining the wait list offer. It was one of the hardest emails I have ever written and my finger paused over the send key. Then I sent it.
There are two reasons that I am sharing my tale:-
Go Terriers!..except when you go against the Colonials.
Night Owl out.
Congrats! My son came off the waitlist also! Definitely need to know about financial aid though. How long do they have to decide? I know he has to reach out about the offer by tomorrow.
I think this year BU will go to their waitlist especially with only 11k accepted which is not the norms for BU. I’ve seen a few posts of waitlisted being accepted so the numbers will be Higher than last year.