Boston University Acceptance rates will be around 12% for the Class of '26, 6.3% lower than last year.
Today BU's school newspaper published this article about lowering the admit pool in order to avoid over crowding and lack of housing/dining hall support which has been a problem at BU for 2 semesters. This is what is happening at UC Berkeley but involuntarily (CA State Court Order)
Here's the tea. Last year BU's target class was 3200 but they were caught off guard when 4011 matriculated causing the housing/dining problem. The yield rate was 32% up from 29%. So this year if they want to hit that 3100 target Freshman enrollment in the article, they already have 2 critical pieces of information. 1.) The Total number of applications is 80747 and 2.) Last year's yield rate of 32%.
So what is the admit pool going to be? According to my mental math, 9700. Why? Because 3100 is 32% of exactly 9700. This is a decrease of 4184 from last years 13884 admit pool. Yikes.
Therefore 9700/80747 = a best case acceptance rate of 12% if the want to use the implied yield rate of 32%. If BU admissions expect the yield rate to increase say to 34%, then the will only admit 9120 which will push the acceptance rate to 11.3%
So in 1 cycle, BU will have admit rates more in line with Tufts, Middlebury, USC, Emory, and WashU.
What do you think about this? Frankly I'm not surprised because I think BU is certainly as good of school as these peers and better than Tulane in my opinion that has a 9.3% admit rate.
So some of you though my thought process was flawed when I suggested that admit rates will be lower this cycle and future cycles. But as more and more info. comes out, I'm confident that the entire 1st and 2nd drawers of colleges like T25 to T50 are going to experience lower and lower rates over time. Within 5 years, I can see rates going to 2%-3% for Ivys and 3-5% for Elites and 6% for Top Liberal arts colleges.
3 weeks ago BU published an article that said they received 80797 applications so today's 80747 number might be a typo.https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/class-of-2026-largest-applicant-pool-ever/
I am definitely not surprised but I am so bummed out because as class of '27 the acceptance rate will become much lower. BU is one of my top choices and this revelation just makes it much more harder to get accepted.
@Fathia I'm sorry for you but I think that this is a wake up call to all high school students to do more research into finding the best schools that fit their needs, goals and aspirations. There are literally 100s of excellent colleges in America that are just as good as BU. I personally think that well endowed private liberal arts schools have the most to gain if they build more dorms and dining halls? Why? Many of them sit on 1000s of acres of land that they own. It's very difficult for a Columbia, Harvard, BU, NYU, USC to build more dorms because they are in high density urban areas were growth is limited.
When I visited colleges I learned that some schools are huge. Vassar (1000 acres), Hamilton (1350 acres), Skidmore (1000 acres), Kenyon (1000 acres). The school I'm going to is 36 acres (Columbia U.)
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