Anonymous
08/26/2025 11:54
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:With an average high school GPA of 3.48? These days a monkey can get that.
Probably a lot of private schools kids where they don't just give out As.
Yep. Lots of private school kids from the Philadelphia and Lancaster areas go to Bucknell, many of them from very academic schools.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 11:21
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Colby acceptance rate in '24 was 9%. Do you think every high school graduate in New England applies to Colby? 29% does not reflect a "highly competitive" admission rate.
Colby sux knutts.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 11:15
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote:With an average high school GPA of 3.48? These days a monkey can get that.
Probably a lot of private schools kids where they don't just give out As.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 11:14
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote: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.
So there's "record enrollment" and the acceptance rate only dropped 3 points?? Please help me understand how this makes Bucknell highly competitive?
Anonymous
08/26/2025 11:10
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote: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.
Colby acceptance rate in '24 was 9%. Do you think every high school graduate in New England applies to Colby? 29% does not reflect a "highly competitive" admission rate.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 10:41
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is the top spammer in our house. My kid hates them for this reason. It's a complete turn-off.
Interesting . I’d be annoyed also.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 10:24
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Bucknell is the top spammer in our house. My kid hates them for this reason. It's a complete turn-off.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 10:21
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Villanova was 27% and many call that a highly competitive school 🤔
https://www1.villanova.edu/university/undergraduate-admission/applying-to-villanova/admission-profile.html
Villanova's average high school GPA and test scores are much, much higher. Much.
More than two-thirds submit scores to Bucknell. Less than 25% submit to Villanova. That alone explains the difference in score ranges.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 10:18
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
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.
It is low for a NE school. I believe the stats for the engineering school and business school admits is higher. The School of Arts and Sciences brings down the average.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 09:12
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
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.
And now you have confirmation to that effect.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 09:07
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote: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.
Villanova was 27% and many call that a highly competitive school 🤔
https://www1.villanova.edu/university/undergraduate-admission/applying-to-villanova/admission-profile.html
Villanova's average high school GPA and test scores are much, much higher. Much.
Anonymous
08/26/2025 09:04
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Bucknell > Villanova all day long
Anonymous
08/26/2025 05:04
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
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.
Villanova was 27% and many call that a highly competitive school 🤔
https://www1.villanova.edu/university/undergraduate-admission/applying-to-villanova/admission-profile.html
Anonymous
08/25/2025 13:40
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
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.
This is maybe the most DCUM post ever. Both Grinnell and Cornell catch strays in a dig at Bucknell. Stay classy!
Anonymous
08/25/2025 13:38
Subject: Récord enrollment at Bucknell
Anonymous wrote:Record freshman class enrollment by one (1)--yes, one student.
1,040 freshmen enrolled versus old record of 1,039.
OK. Will that 1 extra student still be able to access the pipeline to the street?