<p>epooqeo: Don’t agree with everything said here. Here is my take on the situation: BC’s admin does handle all of its affairs including admission as a business affair. It was a deliberate business move to place an essay within last year’s application in order to reduce superfluous application (the “why nots?”)…and it worked…from 35,000 applications for the class of 2016 down to 25,000 applications for the class of 2017. But, this is when it starts getting tricky: they maintained the same acceptance rate of 28% for they accepted 7000 out of those 25,000…that way US News and World Report rankings are not affected. (So you need not worry). However, the yield was poor: only 1300 had accepted a spot for the class as of May 1 meaning a yield of 19%…very low (ie top accepted students went some place else probably ivies). So how do you compensate that and fill up the class of 2250 or so students? Well BC had put 6000 qualifying students in their waitlist and so on they went all summer long accepting students from the waitlist. If you check out the waitlist and decision threads, they were accepting students all the way until august. But the bottom line here is: yes, BC manages everything like a business and you know what, even though, it hurts and you may not agree with it, you should understand it and probably would do the same if you were in their shoes.</p>