I have no strong feelings on Bucknell. Their undergrad enrollment broke the record by 1. 1 whole extra student. Their overall enrollment is up by 51.

Anonymous wrote:Just googled and a 1270 SAT is the 84th percentile for college bound students. That’s not “really low”. Don’t absorb the warped perceptions of this forum.

What do you expect? The very loud and persistent voices on this board only respect about 20ish private colleges/universities (Emory and Cornell are “bad”!). The poster(s) whi do the amusing and harmless Bucknell bits really rile this group up. They seem to be offended that Bucknell refuses to know its place. It’s funny.

According to google, Bucknell is still test optional so that might skew the average scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Just googled and a 1270 SAT is the 84th percentile for college bound students. That’s not “really low”. Don’t absorb the warped perceptions of this forum.

It's low compared to many, many schools. It's LOW.

How is a 1270 low when the average SAT score is 1000?

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell gets "killed" on this board only because one poster is obsessed with it and posts relentlessly.

I actually just looked at its CDS and was surprised at how easy it is to get in. The average SAT is 1270? That's really low.

Bucknell's current CDS reports a median SAT score of 1280.

Anonymous wrote:Just googled and a 1270 SAT is the 84th percentile for college bound students. That’s not “really low”. Don’t absorb the warped perceptions of this forum.

It's low compared to many, many schools. It's LOW.

Not a hater (always liked Bucknell) but as of a month or so ago Bucknell was still accepting freshmen (as opposed to WL or transfers). There is a separate thread on it. NACAC list. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not that post-May deposit that they were digging for kids.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, 3.58. My bad. Still pretty mediocre.

Average students need good options too.

There's also a relentless satirist who has either just appeared in the last few weeks or has seriously upped their prose stylistics game.

Apparently the pipeline meme alone was not sufficient.

Time to stop it.

I'm pretty sure the real "booster"/"stacking cheese" person went away about a year ago.

Just googled and a 1270 SAT is the 84th percentile for college bound students. That’s not “really low”. Don’t absorb the warped perceptions of this forum.

Bucknell gets "killed" on this board only because one poster is obsessed with it and posts relentlessly.

I actually just looked at its CDS and was surprised at how easy it is to get in. The average SAT is 1270? That's really low.

Sorry, 3.58. My bad. Still pretty mediocre.

With an average high school GPA of 3.48? These days a monkey can get that.

Wow, they smashed their enrollment record. Kudos.

Bucknell gets killed on this board, but the checks are rolling in. Enrollment plunged at Elon and a few others. Maybe they landed here

https://www.bucknell.edu/news/bucknell-incoming-class-2029-sets-record-1040-new-students