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Last year 1260 were admitted early decision of 3221 applicants, which is an acceptance rate of 39%. The acceptance rate for students in regular decision was 17%.
When accounting for athletes and other hooked applicants in the early decision pool, the acceptance rate for all other early decision applicants was probably closer to 30%.
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Thanks Bill - can you share where you saw these stats? At least for RD, BC reported ~5000 of 39,681 for an RD rate of 12.6%. Just wanted to know if they updated this information somewhere.
Common Data Set.
I subtracted the ED results from the total applied/accepted numbers to come up with the RD stats. I welcome anyone to check my math. Please correct me if I got it wrong. 
By the way. I was also surprised by the numbers I came up with because I had also seen the lower reported numbers.
Givens:
39,681 total apps
3,221 ED apps
5,000 total acceptances
1,260 ED acceptances
My math:
39,681 total apps less 3,221 ED apps equals 36,460 RD apps
5,000 acceptances less 1,260 ED acceptances equals 3,740 RD acceptances
3,740 RD acceptances divided by 36,360 RD apps equals a 10.3% RD acceptance rate
5,000 total acceptances divided by 39,681 total apps equals 12.6% OVERALL rate
1,260 ED acceptances divided by 3,221 ED apps equals 39.1% ED acceptance rate
So, if I had a child who really wanted to go to BC and could afford to apply ED, that seems to be the way to go!
Thanks. I don’t know where I went wrong, so I appreciate that tou corrected it.
I’ll say again that the 39% includes athletes and other hooked applicants. It’s not just the general pool of ED applicants. My guess is that the ED acceptance rate for general ED applicants without hooks is closer to 30% (round numbers) than 39%. That’s still better odds than 10%, so I agree that if BC is the clear front runner, that’s the way to go.
Okay. I figured out what happened.
When I googled the B.C. common data set for this year year, I was given the wrong year. Unfortunately I didn’t pick up on it because the year was written in the fine print.
Thanks for correcting the error.
Can you tell me where you obtained the current B.C. common data set @PANJ616? I can’t find it anywhere. I know that B.C. reported a 12.6% acceptance, but that was for this year. No one has published a common data set yet for the class entering fall, 2025. Their acceptance rate for this past year’s freshman class, entering fall, 2024, was 14.7%, based on the article on their website, but the common data set for that class still isn’t up on their website.
Even the 12.6% that they reported for this year’s freshman class is suspect because they had to pull a record number off their wait list after that number was reported due to lowe4 yield than they expected.