Totally agree, I just don’t know if everyone gets deferred like Georgetown or if they defer a select few of early applicants. The answer to that will help me determine what the best option is
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I am also nervous I was deferred so they can reject me in their RD pool so their acceptance rate goes down.
You tagged the wrong person.
Did you get in?
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Hey Everyone. Congrats to those who learned they were accepted. For those rejected- you will end up where you are meant to be. My daughter is awaiting her EA decision today from her first choice school and she is a mess. I have been telling her all along- where you go to college does NOT define you. You will end up where you belong. I promise. Oh and I am posting on this thread because I am a BU grad (Sargent College BS '94, MSPT '95). Best of luck to everyone and keep your heads high, no matter which decision you received.
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I’ve heard BU only accepts or defers on ED and rarely rejects.
I searched this thread and do see some rejects reported. So looks it is not a “rare” thing
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Dgreen1803 Would love to know your stats and how much was Merit…are you willing to share?
Also as someone alluded to earlier, rejections generally go unreported or under reported on any thread compared to acceptances and deferrals (should be thankful to those who were gracious enough to do so on this thread)
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You have to remember a forum is going to amplify the minority, I’ve only found three flat out rejected in this thread. It seems about 430 people got accepted for ED1 that I’ve seen. I’m just going based on what I’ve seen multiple times elsewhere.
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My full ride was merit-based. I didn’t report the SAT and my weighted GPA is 3.79. But I took a lot of AP and college courses.
Congratulations! My D has applied RD and has submitted her SAT and her weighted GPA is 3.85. 13 AP courses and great ECs. Hopefully she will get accepted with good merits.
Are the aid packages for those who were accepted close to what you anticipated them being? Just trying to get an idea how feasible it would be to get the 10% edge by applying ed2. If the aid packages don’t align with the net price calculator, I will have her look elsewhere.
If you have run the net price calculator recently I would say that the aid offered was fairly close. I made the mistake of not re-running the NPC before she hit submit. When I ran it early summer it gave her about $10k more in the NPC. I don’t know what caused the change. I re-ran them for everywhere she applied and got the same results, about $10k less in aid.
But the aid they offered my daughter was within $2k of the recent NPC that I ran just after Thanksgiving.
hi! so i had a 4.1 gpa and a 1590 sat. i believe my need based scholarship was around 30k out of the 71k full tuition, the rest i received as a university scholar. i took 9 aps, and 15 honors. i started a club called the “woman’s empowerment club” to spread awareness about feminism. i had 2 leadership positions in my school and i believe my essay was really good. from my friends that received entry as well, they usually had between a 3.7-4.0 gpa and had SAT at a range of about 1250-1430. BU is very holistic in their application review so as long as your kid can stand out with something, they should be good to go!! good luck 
We are in the same boat. We are trying to make the same decision too and appreciate the insight from ED1 students/parents.
Has anyone gotten in with a 90%/100% gpa and good extra curriculars?
Thanks so much for sharing! My daughter applied RD, but applied by the Dec 1st deadline to be eligible for university scholarships. She had a 36 ACT, 11 AP Classes, 9 Honors classes, 8 hours of dual enrollment with a community college, 4.7 GPA. Really hoping she will get some university scholarship money as well. Congrats again to you! Fantastic job!