<p>according to a knowledgeable poster in another thread, the new modified rolling admission plan at Binghamton will be a benefit to out of state applicants. Thoughts?</p>
<p>this is purely conjecture on my part from having watched how things went with admissions there the last couple of years (ie i have no “inside” info) –</p>
<p>a couple of years ago – they had Early Action – even though there were specified dates as to when to apply by and when they’d respond by, they seemed to in effect have sort of a rolling admissions – i knew many kids who heard well before the supposed response date, even for EA.</p>
<p>then for fall 2008, they find themselves over enrolled – way more freshmen than they expected – many tripled, some even put at least initially to live in converted lounges.</p>
<p>so last year for fall 2009 – they still have EA, but it seemed like an awful lot of EA kids were being deferred – if you read the threads here back then, kids were shocked at being deferred – admissions seemed to want to wait and look at the overall pool and avoid over enrollment again – and on top of that the economy further inflated the application pool.</p>
<p>so now for fall 2010, they eliminate EA and state they are “modified rolling admissions”. my personal guess – this is to give themselves the maximum flexibility to do whatever they want – no one expecting an answer by an EA date, no need to “defer” EA applicants. an applicant who they clearly love, they can send an early admit letter to. in essence, they can do whatever they want. </p>
<p>and given how things have been in flux over the last couple of years, i don’t think its possible to predict how things will actually play out in terms of what “modified rolling admissions” will end up looking like – they may have an idea of what they want to do, but once they see their application pool, that might change. </p>
<p>as for OOS applicants – i think they may have an advantage in general since there are so few of them – but i don’t know that the modified rolling admission will change that – the admissions office always could send admissions letters whenever they wanted to those they wanted to – the switch from EA to modified rolling in my mind just seems to take away the need to “defer” and the expectations of the EA response date.</p>
<p>Interesting – SUNY Binghamton’s 2008 Common Data Set states clearly that they did not have an Early Action or Early Decision program in place when the Class of 2012 entered school in the late summer of 2008.</p>
<p>they definitely had EA up until this current admission year. its indicated on their 2007 CDS. i wouldn’t know why the 2008 CDS says otherwise. but students applying to the classes of 2012 and 2013 were definitely applying EA. you can look back at threads here where people list their EA results.</p>
<p>Is this correct, If i send in my application earlier for Binghamton. I will know if I am accepted/waitlisted/rejected earlier? Is there benefits of sending it in earlier. Are the benefits, that you get the app out of your hands??!</p>
<p>PBABY - Send it early. You’ll get it over with, and maybe they’ll look at your application earlier even.</p>
<p>I thank iamhere has made an excellent argument for a potential BU admissions plan. It would certainly remove some of the animosity felt from the EA deffered group. Makes perfect sense to me. When admissions looks bad it certainly hurts the schools reputation and this would go a long way towards helping their image.</p>