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i forgot to mention this in my last post, but bucknell, like all but about 20 schools in the country, is not entirely need blind. (this allows the university to meet 100% of demonstrated need.) so that you are not applying for financial aid probably wont matter, but if your son is one of the final 50 in the pile and the schools finaid allotment is almost gone, it may.
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whistle, the original posters son is in the middle range of enrolled students in both sat critical reading and math. his overall score of 1320 is fine. further, the top x% class rank statistics are nearly irrelevant because they apply only to students with official class ranks. the student in question, like most bucknell applicants, attends a competitive high school that does not rank. as such, the many students who 'unofficially' arent in the top 10% of their classes because of their competitive high school environments arent included. that we dont know his actual unweighted gpa keeps me from commenting on that.
as i said before, i would not say that his admission to bucknell is likely. however, that does NOT mean that bucknell is not a good fit. nothing in his background suggests that he could not succeed academically and socially at the school, and isnt that what a school being a good fit is all about? what bucknell admissions ultimately decides is a different story, but it has no impact on fit from the applicants perspective.
as such, there is NO reason not to apply. his chances for admission are certainly better than mine (on paper) were for cornell. i mean, who was the last prospective math/econ major you saw admitted to an ivy league school with a 78 in podunk high school physics? |