Why do schools offer Spring Admissions? Are they for lower stat kids?

socaldad2002
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 22:50:55 +0000

itsgettingreal17:

The only reasonable inference is that they don’t want those students’ stats counting. That doesn’t mean they aren’t qualified. Sure they are. But they just aren’t their preferred applicants to make up the class that is used for rankings and tracking purposes. I don’t need to see the stats for that. They will never disclose them. But even the spring accepted students understand the rationale. Let’s not be coy.

^^^ this…I have seen it happen at BU last year, great kid majoring in Elementary Education but “unhooked” and could not get better than 26 on the ACT (took it like 6 times) and 3.4 GPA, even her private counselor who packaged her well said “you are not getting in” but family was wealthy and she was admitted for Spring 2019.

I know it’s anecdotal, but it makes perfect sense. This is a full pay kid that will pay 300K+ and they liked her background for the major but didn’t want her low 25th percentile stats to adversely impact Fall admit data.