Difficulty of getting in

<p>ive seen a lot of confliction numbers on the acceptance numbers at baylor. When i went on my vist i was told that around 20,000 applied, about 6,000 were accepted and around 3,000 enrolled. However, ive seen numbers from other sites (princeton review) and other threads here saying that the acceptance % is around 72%. Does anybody know more information about how difficult it is to be accepted there?</p>

<p>I talked with someone from there who works with admissions. They received around 21,500 applications for the freshman class. They said that they must give priority to legacy applicants, baptist applicants, national merit finalists, one's who show a lot of interest in the school, and students who are christian's and show a great deal of community involvement. They are care more about one's ability to be a good person rather than just be an academic genius. They received many high GPA and test score applicants and rejected them, taking more "all around" students such as those that have the qualities that I just mentioned above. The school is very competitive. It just does not show because of the way their admissions process works. It is similar to Pepperdine University, as in they want the "all around" christian student rather than just the "student". Believe me, this school could easily make their school have very high test scores, etc but that would take away from their "Christian Characteristics" that they are trying to endulge on. They have all of the tools they need, but are trying to be a christian university rather than a Harvard.</p>

<p>^that is true.</p>

<p>Also, last year they had rolling admissions, and more people applied than they thought. So if you applied late, you had a much smaller chance of getting in, even with higher test scores, simply because they'd already filled the class.</p>

<p>This year, on the other hand, they have several deadlines (supposedly to get more males and minority applicants to apply).</p>

<p>Anyway, I wouldn't say it's as difficult to get into as Pepperdine. For many on this board (from what I've seen, most people here are high scoring overachievers), it probably still is very much a safety school. But like all colleges, it's getting harder and harder to get admitted, especially since so many students are applying. So unless you apply and get accepted early, it's probably not a good idea to just apply to Baylor.</p>

<p>I think they prefer Texas students. During Nov/Dec they offered "Snap App" which was a free application w/o having to write any essays. I know people who got lower than 2000s on their SATS, who weren't in top 10% who got in w/ scholarships, but trhe cost is pretty expensive after the aid.</p>

<p>I got in, but I'm not baptist (catholic), I'm german but live in africa, etc
did anyone else on here get in?</p>