I’m a current student at BC and know a decent amount of the admission process here. From what I understand, admissions aims to admit roughly 1/3 of the class through Early Action. Since they don’t have a full picture of what the applicant pool looks like for the year, they limit acceptances to top students that fall well within their criteria. There are three decisions that can result from applying early action: an acceptance, a rejection, or you can be deferred to regular decision.