What do Boston College and Tufts have in common? The Tufts Syndrome?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
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<p>Going through the EA thread, I discovered that many qualified applicants with excellent GPA and SATs/ACT were deferred. Other well qualified acceptances, but of a lesser caliber in term of numbers, were admitted. Is BC deferring students who it feels would get into more prestigious schools and therefore turn down its offer of admission for students who it knows would surely go if they get in (it being their reach)? </p>

<p>In my personal opinion BC is playing it safe, the school wants that 27% (25% if it’s really lucky) admit rate pretty badly this year. They want a secured number of students from the EA batch that would most likely to attend, and therefore allows them to turn down more students from the Regular batch: increasing their retention rate and decreasing their admit rate.</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

<p>P.S.
Don’t take this the wrong way and think that I’m saying students who got in via EA are unqualified, they are competitive.</p>

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<p>No, because they'd offer the "more qualified applicants" admission into the honors program in order to help attract them. That's what the honors program is for.</p>

<p>If you notice the EA thread, those with highly competitive stats who were deferred (and I can only think of one that sticks out as anything close to evidence of Tufts syndrome) were from schools where tons of kids apply to BC.</p>

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<p>Agreed, also you can't really judge everything from the scores and the minority of the EA's who post here that the more qualified did not get in. Remember too BC takes into account other factors like school leadership, religon, community/volunteer involvment,etc. and I've heard from an inside source that they want more geographic diversity to continue to raise the profile of the school. This helped me get in (MN) but makes it tougher for you east coasters. There will be abouit 27,000 who apply this year so that means some very high scores/GPA will not get admitted.</p>

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<p>The only thing they have in common is they're both in the metro Boston area.</p>

<p>Tufts is academically superior; BC is athletically superior. Tufts is harder to get into; BC is Catholic, etc.</p>

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<p>lolabelle, do you just search for Tufts and only post on those threads? The only time I've seen you post is where "Tufts" is mentioned.</p>

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<p>^ ^ ^ For the most part, yes. I like to write about what I am informed about. That is, for the most part, Tufts. Better than me posting educated guesses about other things, right? I try to do lean towards informed opinions.</p>

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<p>Ok, I was just wondering.</p>

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<p>ive been saying this for a while, BC has caught the "Tufts Syndrome" which really should now be called WashU syndrome.</p>