Anyone apply ED II? 25 days and counting till decision release. Thought I would get conversation started. Looks like they accepted 300 in ED I round.
I also applied ED II. Anxious to see what happens! Does anyone know if ED II acceptance rate is comparable to ED I? Can’t find answers on their website
According to the Common Data Set for 2016-17, Bucknell received 745 ED applications and accepted 445. As far as I can tell, Bucknell does not release the number of applications accepted in each individual ED round.
For what it’s worth, in December, Bucknell announced posted on Twitter that it accepted 300 students in the ED1 round. Guess if you compare that to the total ED applications accepted last year, they will accept only about 1/2 as many (~150) in ED 2 this year. Kind of unsettling, but a fact for a smaller, Division 1 sports school. According to the CDS, Bucknell targets an incoming class of 950. Typically about 220 are recruited athletes, 440 are EDs, and about 200-300 are accepted in the regular round:
https://www.bucknell.edu/Documents/InstitutionalResearch/CDS_2016-17/CDS_2016-17C.pdf
I applied ED2 and really hoping this is it for me. I loved Bucknell from the day I visited with my family over a year ago. Probably should have applied ED1 but I guess I wasn’t ready to commit in November. About 10 other girls from my high school applied too. I’m wondering why there are not many posts about Bucknell on this forum when admissions is so competitive at Bucknell. Is anybody else out there? Nervous? Excited? If we get good news in a week, we can kick back and enjoy the last four months of senior year.
To clarify what i read above: If they accepted 300 ED 1 and 220 of those are athletes there were only 80 spots available for non-athletes? Is this true??
Some recruited athletes do go ED2. In fact, some schools added ED2 as a way to finish up the recruiting process.
@wisteria100 Thanks for all your help. Much appreciated!!
Does anyone know when decisions for ed 2 will be coming back? I know the website says by the 15th, however, they did comeback a day earlier last year.
I believe the decisions are released tomorrow night (the 14th) because they say it’s a month after the application deadline, which was the 15th of January and a month later would be the 14th of February. Last year they came out at around 8 or 9 pm. Hope this helped lmk if anyone else has any more info
@flapjack21 Thanks so much for the help. Good luck to everyone with their college search.
International student, applied ED II and for financial aid. Got an email this morning from UPS saying they’re delivering a package 0.3 lbs from Bucknell University. Any ideas?
Who else is excited to find out tonight?
Anyone know if they will release at 3PM or 5PM? Recently it has been 9PM the night before (last night), so I am thinking maybe after school today?
I rang up around 9am and spoke to admissions and they said they hadn’t decided on a time
Any updates?
ACCEPTED
My D received her acceptance notification around 3 pm today. There was no email notification, just a portal application update. She’s so happy she’s in tears. So excited for her.
ACCEPTED TO ENGINEERING
hey @surroundings could u please post ur stats (test scores, EFC…)