Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

32% acceptance rate in 2023! I always thought Bucknell was competitive.

It's highly competitive. The acceptance rate dropped to 29% in 2024. More than 7 out of 10 applicants were rejected. And that's with an applicant pool that is self-selective to begin with. It's not like Penn State where every high school graduate from Pennsylvania applies.

Anonymous wrote:They are over enrolling because the transfers out is particularly high.

Bull crap. Their most recent freshman retention rate is 94%. That's insanely high. The national average is 68%.

Anonymous wrote: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

32% acceptance rate in 2023! I always thought Bucknell was competitive.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What college has more intrinsic humor possibilities on a board like this?

I mean, the name itself is hilarious: "Buck-nell"

Always doomed to be confused with Cornell and Grinnell:

"Bucknell? Isn't that in Nebraska or somewhere?" or "Bucknell? Oh yeah, I think I had a friend who went there to study hotel management."

It's an off-brand version of the most off-brand Ivy League school and the most off-brand liberal arts college. And preposterously, no one has seen a bison in Pennsylvania since the end of the last ice age.

So all hail Bucknell, the RC-Cola of selective colleges! If anyone has ever needed to experience the refreshing taste of Royal Crown, it's the brand obsessed people on this forum.

Bucknell is much more nationally known than Grinnell. I've never run into a Grinnell grad on Wall Street unless it's at the coffee shop where they work as a barista while focusing on activism or that novel they keep meaning to finish.

I went to Grinnell and agree that Bucknell probably has better name recognition with the general population than Grinnell, thanks to a D1 basketball program. I’d also agree that you’ll likely find a higher percentage of students who desire Wall Street jobs at Bucknell than Grinnell. I find it odd that PP can’t imagine options beyond Wall Street and barista, but whatever. I have never known anyone who confused Bucknell and Grinnell though it’s true that they both end in the same four letters.

They are over enrolling because the transfers out is particularly high.

Anonymous wrote:What college has more intrinsic humor possibilities on a board like this?

I mean, the name itself is hilarious: "Buck-nell"

Always doomed to be confused with Cornell and Grinnell:

"Bucknell? Isn't that in Nebraska or somewhere?" or "Bucknell? Oh yeah, I think I had a friend who went there to study hotel management."

It's an off-brand version of the most off-brand Ivy League school and the most off-brand liberal arts college. And preposterously, no one has seen a bison in Pennsylvania since the end of the last ice age.

So all hail Bucknell, the RC-Cola of selective colleges! If anyone has ever needed to experience the refreshing taste of Royal Crown, it's the brand obsessed people on this forum.

Bucknell is much more nationally known than Grinnell. I've never run into a Grinnell grad on Wall Street unless it's at the coffee shop where they work as a barista while focusing on activism or that novel they keep meaning to finish.

What college has more intrinsic humor possibilities on a board like this?

I mean, the name itself is hilarious: "Buck-nell"

Always doomed to be confused with Cornell and Grinnell:

"Bucknell? Isn't that in Nebraska or somewhere?" or "Bucknell? Oh yeah, I think I had a friend who went there to study hotel management."

It's an off-brand version of the most off-brand Ivy League school and the most off-brand liberal arts college. And preposterously, no one has seen a bison in Pennsylvania since the end of the last ice age.

So all hail Bucknell, the RC-Cola of selective colleges! If anyone has ever needed to experience the refreshing taste of Royal Crown, it's the brand obsessed people on this forum.

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

That only means that the real score is likely even lower than 1270, doofus.

Record freshman class enrollment by one (1)--yes, one student.

1,040 freshmen enrolled versus old record of 1,039.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

True, with 68% submitting (19% submitting ACT), which actually is pretty high for a TO school. https://www.bucknell.edu/sites/default/files/institutional-research/common_data_set_2024-25.pdf

Anonymous wrote: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.

+ 1.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know that enrolling more students is necessarily a good thing. It strains resources.

Correct. They over enrolled. That’s not a good thing.

I don’t know that enrolling more students is necessarily a good thing. It strains resources.

the achievements listed are also pretty mid - almost like the bottom 10% of kids at Sidwell who don’t even try

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

yeah meaning the true average would be much much lower. Not a hater but lump this in with big TO schools like Colgate Wake Richmond and Nescacs - the TO experiment is over and it has failed. I get schools like Wake Wes and Bowdoin were TO long before the fad, but it does nobody any favors in terms of academic quality of the undergrad population