BU what is this?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston University
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<p>2280
3.7 GPA
760 chem and 750 MAth II
considered BU my match/safety school. got outright rejected.
not to be arrogant but epople with way lower stats got in and im just in disbelief.
really considered BU as a possible school.</p>

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<p>2220, top 10%, 770 maths 2, 750 physics, also rejected.</p>

<p>And there’s 4 people so far on here with far higher than the 75th percentile stats who’ve been waitlisted.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-university/1477631-waitlisted-high-stats-demonstrated-interest.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-university/1477631-waitlisted-high-stats-demonstrated-interest.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Pretty sure they’re working on their yield.</p>

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<p>2130, 3.7GPA, long-term extracurriculars, leadership positions, volunteer work and a good mid year report… Rejected</p>

<p>I thought I would get accepted. If not at least get waitlisted. :(</p>

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<p>2350, 4.0/4.24, ranked in top 4%. Flat-out rejection. BU was one of my safeties as well. Thankfully I’ve already been accepted to my other safeties as well as UCLA.</p>

<p>I just… All of my wat.</p>

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<p>congrats stupiddorky on UCLA. im kinda speechless lol. your stats are killers.</p>

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<p>@onmyway, thanks. I don’t really know what to think, so thankfully I wasn’t very attached to BU. Just realized I accidentally reported my GPA as 4.24/5.0… maybe that has something to do with it? I thought that would have been corrected by my transcript, though. </p>

<p>Either way, well, shucks. We’re their loss, right?</p>

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<p>I’ve seen this kind of thing on some other college threads and the only explanation is yield protection - they know you’ll get into other schools and don’t think you’ll actually attend BU. It’s kind of ridiculous… but you’ll end up in a good place.</p>

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<p>I agree with Sunny100, I think that they also know that the kids with super high stats (such as yourselves) consider BU a safety. Unless you have showed admissions a lot of interest in BU, they probably figure it is not your first choice.</p>

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<p>The same thing happens with a couple of other schools with a lot of applications coming in – Northeastern is notorious for it, as is WashU. Rejecting people who are great students but won’t attend can boost rankings.</p>