Anonymous wrote:Bucknell was the most bland campus in the most depressing city we toured. I can’t figure out why anyone would want to attend school here. Lafayette was lovely and even Lehigh’s weirdly sloped campus was preferable. I truly don’t get it.

Seriously???? Lewisburg is a quintessential college town. It gets ranked as an idyllic town often. Any chance your kid was rejected and you are bitter? 🤔

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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.

Very true. It draws a private school crowd.

I am astounded at how many have 4.0+ at schools now - it was not like that when I went to high school…and it is not that the kids are now somehow miraculously smarter.

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Grinnellers are at a disadvantage on The Street. When they show up for interviews with a bullhorn tucked under their arm, the uptight reactionary interviewers often see that as a red flag.

Lol. No Street pipeline for the cornfield Cornell, despite having Charlie Munger manage all their money. The truth is only extreme weirdos, Iowans, or folks looking for a full ride go to Grinnell.

What are you guys talking about? Ceteris paribus, if a school like this is getting more good applications, their acceptance rate goes down and their enrollment stays the same.

If they choose to expand their student body (or if they make a mistake and more of their admitted students accept than their model predicts), their enrollment goes up.

Expanding enrollment could possibly mean lower standards, but not always. Very prestigious schools (e.g., Princeton, which also increased enrollment) have so many highly qualified applicants that admitting more doesn't really change the profile.

Getting their yield wrong also doesn't say anything about standards. It's getting really, really difficult for schools to predict yield. So this kind of change doesn't mean that their yield necessarily increased.

I don't know anything about Bucknell, but much of the conversation on this board doesn't make much sense.

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’s a gateway to the Street!

Bucknell was the most bland campus in the most depressing city we toured. I can’t figure out why anyone would want to attend school here. Lafayette was lovely and even Lehigh’s weirdly sloped campus was preferable. I truly don’t get it.

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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.

Grinnellers are at a disadvantage on The Street. When they show up for interviews with a bullhorn tucked under their arm, the uptight reactionary interviewers often see that as a red flag.

I worked in big law and run into Grinnell grads occasionally. Just did a case where lead lawyer on both sides went to Grinnell. Never worked with anyone from Bucknell. Guess they all are on “the street”.

Cleaning the street, on my experience. Quality is not there.

Anonymous wrote:Elon enrollment down because they raised standards. Looks like those kids ended up at Bucknell. Not surprised. Bucknell is Elon’s little brother.

Sure seems like it. Bucknell taking all comers now.

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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.

Grinnellers are at a disadvantage on The Street. When they show up for interviews with a bullhorn tucked under their arm, the uptight reactionary interviewers often see that as a red flag.

I worked in big law and run into Grinnell grads occasionally. Just did a case where lead lawyer on both sides went to Grinnell. Never worked with anyone from Bucknell. Guess they all are on “the street”.

Elon enrollment down because they raised standards. Looks like those kids ended up at Bucknell. Not surprised. Bucknell is Elon’s little brother.

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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.

Grinnellers are at a disadvantage on The Street. When they show up for interviews with a bullhorn tucked under their arm, the uptight reactionary interviewers often see that as a red flag.

Well, a woman I know loved her 4 years at Bucknell and now is a corporate lawyer for a large international company. So it has something going for it.

It's a great school. Elon doesn't come close to being in the same echelon. And I don't have kids either.

funny the anger towards bucknell - truth is maybe not ur nerdy kid with low eq, but cool good looking athletic kids who want to have fun and get a good job full up the ranks in lewiston every year. These are the kids your ivy strivers will be working for in 10 years -

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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.

Oh, spare me the private schools don't inflate grades bullshit. The large majority of them do. Also, if you're suggesting that Bucknell is full of top students from private schools that just grade them hard that too is bullshit. Top students from rigorous private schools aren't going to Bucknell. They have better options.

The bottom line is that Bucknell just isn't all that selective.