<p>More on the stats for this year’s admissions - pulled from an article at BU Today</p>
<p>33,894 applications, a 6.5 percent increase over last year.</p>
<p>African-Americans - 1,638 applications, up 11.4 percent
Hispanic and Latino students - 2,457 applications, up 6 percent.
International students - 2,955 applications this year, up 10.8 percent. </p>
<p>(82.6 percent increase applications from China. Applicants from all 50 states and 128 foreign countries.)</p>
<p>Female applicants: 59.2 percent of the total, 0.1 decrease.
Average SAT scores in critical reading and math: 1260, 3 points lower (many schools are reporting big drops) </p>
<p>Average high school GPA: 3.45
Average class rank: top 15%. (almost 80 percent in top 10%)</p>
<p>skinnyfists, are you still waiting to hear?</p>
<p>Yeah, SAT's are down everywhere, often by 10 to 15 or more points at a school. The College Board believes the test, being longer, is tiring kids out. Beats me.</p>
<p>Yeah. I applied as a transfer student to BU and Northeastern. I'll hear back from BU near the end of April and NEU near the end of May. BU will probably reject me again (well, waitlisted last time), so I'll go to NEU with hopes of a junior transfer.</p>
<p>Good luck! I was talking to the admissions person and she said it's very difficult to evaluate which student really wants to go to BU. The system should place emphasis on kids who do.</p>
<p>Well, I made it ABUNDANTLY clear that it's my first choice and would be thrilled to come without hesitation...I hope that and the former application helps out for the less than stellar GPA.</p>
<p>well, i think im going to withdraw my application because i am NOT interested in BU... it was my safety and of the 11 schools im applying to its the last on my list in terms of preference... and i just got into the 6th, so yea, maybe this might help some of you who really want to go to BU</p>
<p>Crouton:
I admire people who do that, personally there are some kids in my school who apply to like 15 schools, and I thinks its absurd. You should apply to a few top schools, and theres no need to apply to every school.</p>
<p>And if you can't narrow down a huge list to a little one, then I'm sorry, but don't go to college.</p>
<p>I think the SAT drop is interesting too considering that other college admissions are getting so much more competitive. Of course that's only as far as i know, but because I've applied there I know that both NYU and Geneseo have gone up in the quality of applicants. It's just kind of odd because I always thought a lot of the same kids apply to both NYU and BU.</p>
<p>call.heralaska, SAT's are down everywhere. The drop at BU is small compared to many schools, some quite prestigious, which have reported 10 - 15 point drops.</p>