<p>I don’t know about earlier… but check out this paragraph</p>
<p>“The decision, which Admission Director John Mahoney Jr. describes as an attempt to right-size BCs applicant pool after a decade of steady increases, has resulted in 25,000 applicants for the 2,270 seats in the incoming class of 2017, a pool that Mahoney describes as serious applicants who are well matched for Boston College.”</p>
<p>from [this</a> article](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/publications/chronicle/FeaturesNewsTopstories/2013/top-stories/applications013013.html]this”>http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/publications/chronicle/FeaturesNewsTopstories/2013/top-stories/applications013013.html).</p>
<p>Are there TRULY 25,000 applicants this year for “2,270 seats?” So only 9% of all applicants actually go to BC?</p>