<p>You can login to your personalized Application Checklist to see your decision. They were posted Friday, 3/20/2009.</p>
<p>I heard regular decision results were released this weekend, so I checked out the thread. I'm surprised to see so many applicants with good numbers get wait listed. Out of curiousity, how many of you visited? How many did the optional essay? Bucknell is HUGE on visits and interest.</p>
<p>Just for the record, i was accepted early decision II.
SAT - 2020
GPA - 3.65 uw / 3.85 w
EC - Held tons of leadership positions, professional musician, 12 hr/mo service, internships
Maj - Electrical Engineering and Music Performance</p>
<p>I feel the same way as BGApplicant...I am now worried for my other school's decisions. </p>
<p>As for Bucknell, I made a prominent effort to show interest (visited twice, overnight, met with faculty), but at the same time I guess I cannot take it too personally...</p>
<p>That's pretty difficult though. Oh well, waitlist it is.</p>
<p>@ Ulver--</p>
<p>I was waitlisted. I visited but did not write the optional essay.</p>
<p>^I remember the first time I visited, the admissions guy talking told us a story about a kid who had a 3.95 unweighted and 2400 SATs. He called to ask why he had been rejected. They told him he was rejected because he did not write the optional essay, and did not show enough interest.</p>
<p>Waitlisted AFTER being deffered from EDII. really painful when we showed true interest with visits, all essays, and personal chat with admissions after Februardy deferral. Dp you think thy at least put me at the top of the waitlist or is it by major?</p>
<p>What else do they want from me?! - To name my first child "Bucky"??!! (Sorry, but this is agonizing to not have some closure either way.)</p>
<p>I'm not too surprised I was waitlisted. I didn't show any interest in Bucknell beyond applying to it. No campus visit and didn't do the optional essay. If I got in, I would have seriously considered enrolling, but it was not at the top of my list. At the same time, I'm not all that upset that I was waitlisted because I was accepted at Wash with the Dean Scholarship. Chances are I won't even keep my name on the list. Congrats to those who were accepted and good luck to everyone on the waitlist!</p>
<p>I visited (I live about 10 hours away) and wrote the optional essay and was waitlisted.</p>
<p>same i also wrote the essay and visited though my bucknell essays werent so amazing and with my 1320/2030 my numbers arent as good as other people's so i can see why i was waitlisted. seriously though did they not reject people?</p>
<p>I visited in June and did write the extra essay. I've been emailing a band director for a while, and I hope that will help.
Honestly, my stats are not nearly as high as those of many of you, so I am hurt but not surprised to be waitlisted. I really liked Bucknell but couldn't apply early to any school due to the money questions. </p>
<p>I hope that Bucknell ends up taking people off their waitlist and, seriously, some of you deserve the spots more than I.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone waiting!</p>
<p>how have you all found out your decision? letters just went out!</p>
<p>< how have you all found out your decision? letters just went out! ></p>
<p>Through the online portal- a letter came awhile ago with an ID number and password to access your application materials, and there was a link on there at midnight or so on Friday night with the decision.</p>
<p>I am curious...how does D2 like Cornell?</p>
<p>first of all, congrats to everyone who was admitted! i hope all of you come to accepted students day next month!
i just wanted to comment on some of the statements made by waitlisted students.
the admissions office knows that a huge percentage of applicants would do great here- bucknell attracts so many passionate and qualified kids who all bring something unique to the school. however, they simply CAN'T accept them all. honestly, bucknell hasn't been hurting nearly as much as some other peer schools as far as decrease in applicants because of the economy. and they did admit a lot of ED kids this year.<br>
as you may know, the current freshman class is about 960, where they try to aim for 900/year. they are definitely trying to err on the side of caution this year, simply because there aren't enough beds for everyone they might want to attend. will they use the waitlist more this year? i'm guessing yes, because they don't want to have a larger over-enrollment problem and want to have more control over class size. they can't afford to have another 960-member class.
so there IS hope for those of you who were waitlisted and still want to come. visit visit visit! (maybe not next weekend though, its house party...)
honestly, i don't think it's tufts syndrome, and i don't think its a numbers game. bucknell puts the "admitted" vs "enrolled" stats clearly on their fact sheets for each class, and numbers are MUCH less important than they appear to be on this forum. bucknell students are PEOPLE, not statistics, and whatever bit of your personality came through your application in your essays and other contact with the school means a lot more than your sat scores.</p>
<p>also, i've never heard of ANYONE who got in without writing the optional essay.</p>
<p>coolmom2009-- I think you are addressing me because I am the only one who mentioned Cornell.</p>
<p>I have 3 kids at three different schools. They were all accepted at Bucknell and would have been glad to attend.</p>
<p>My S choose Colgate (a rival of Bucknell in sports and admissions). He had a cousin attending Colgate at the time, so that was a persuasion. His was also considering (accepted at) Carnegie Mellon. He loves Colgate.</p>
<p>D1-2nd child- choose Cornell over Bucknell. She loves Cornell. Her personality needs a bigger school w/ lots of stuff going on. She interned last summer and will intern this summer in NYC.</p>
<p>D2-3rd child attends Bucknell. She is very happy. As a first year student she went to (New Orleans )St. Bernard parish between semesters to help rebuild Katrina devastated houses. She is going to be an RA next semester. She has had great opportunities and experiences.</p>
<p>So all three have been successful at this point!!!!!!</p>
<p>"i just wonder if i stand any chance at all at duke, tufts, and brown when i get waitlisted at bucknell..."</p>
<p>skateboarder, i agree 1000%!! I got waitlisted at bucknell as well. Heres a little breakdown of my statistics for you:</p>
<p>4.23 weighted GPA
rank: 4/138
senior courseload: AP literature, AP Mandarin chinese, AP biology, AP government, honors calculus
junior year: 2 APs, rest honors
soph year: 1 AP, rest honors
4 on AP USH exam</p>
<p>SAT I: 680 reading, 680 math, 770 writing (2130 cumulative)
SAT II: 690 USH, 660 math I, 660 literature</p>
<p>studying mandarin chinese for 12 years
national champion & 3rd place in a highly selective national chinese speech competition
member of 4 Honor Societies
model UN
4-year member of student council</p>
<p>Sports:
volleyball (4 years, 2 varsity letters)
winter track (4 years, 4 varsity letters, manager)
softball (4 years, 2 varsity letters, captain)</p>
<p>Band:
marching band (4 years, drum major senior year)
concert band (4 years, principal clarinet)
jazz band (membership by audition only) (4 years, saxophone section leader)</p>
<p>community service: volunteer coach for recreation basketball & volleyball (2 years)</p>
<p>....and a couple other accolades that are escaping me at the moment.</p>
<p>like you, skateboarder, i was waitlisted at bucknell. makes me wonder if I still stand a chance at princeton, dartmouth, georgetown, colgate, and lehigh. lol.</p>
<p>i'm disappointed, of course, because i really liked bucknell. but i'm not gonna worry about it at this point...a waitlisting is a lot better than an outright rejection. i was just happy to see that i'm not the only one perplexed by the amount of very qualified candidates that bucknell seems to have turned away.</p>
<p>i don't think anyone who is dissapointed by their bucknell decision should be worried about thier applications to "better" or more selective schools- you all seem like incredible students and people who will do really well wherever you go, and i'm sure something about you stood out to some colleges more than others.</p>
<p>like i said before, bucknell doesn't seem to care as much about stats and numbers, and while they can see how awesome of a student you are, they might have had reservations about the ever-important "fit." </p>
<p>i knew a couple people who were waitlisted or rejected from bucknell but still got into stanford, cornell, uva, lehigh, etc, and while it seems surprising that they were admitted to more selective schools and not bucknell, i think that all of them are a schools that fit their personality and learning style better- whether the schools be bigger, smaller, in a different location, more artsy, more engineering-y, etc.
when i applied to college (and was freaking out for weeks until i got my acceptance) my mom would tell me that everything that everything happened for a reason and i'd eventually end up where i was supposed to be.</p>
<p>oh my god, i just quoted one of my mom's life lesson lectures....</p>
<p>thats a very good way to look at things, bucknell12...i think that this whole waitlist thing is bothering me so much because i have yet to hear from any other college (bucknell is the only college i have heard from thus far), so i have yet to be accepted anywhere yet. I think that if i had been accepted somewhere else before receiving my bucknell decision, i would feel a bit better about it.</p>
<p>i secured my spot on the Bucknell waitlist, in case it becomes necessary.</p>
<p>thevet91:</p>
<p>like you, clarinet section leader and jazz band sax - maybe Bucknell had too many qualified reed players apply!</p>