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Get the inside scoop on Bucknell admissions. Vault provides detailed accounts by students & alumni of the admissions process, including advice on getting in, applications, interviews, essays, and selectivity.


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Admissions Survey Excerpts
Alumni
Admissions at Bucknell is very competitive and becoming more so each year. They offer early decision, which is a good idea if Bucknell is your fir...   READ MORE
Alumni
Tough school to get into.   READ MORE
Alumni
Bucknell is looking for diversity so students outside the tri-state area have a much easier time being accepted than those typical east coast prep...   READ MORE
Current Student
It is a joke. I have friends who got in with negative GPA.   READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
Alumni
Each program at Bucknell is quite different in regards to academic nature and the effect it has on your time and sanity. The engineering program i...   READ MORE
Alumni
FAir amount of workload, great small classes, and great atmosphere to learn.   READ MORE
Alumni
Great basic liberal arts education. Easy time getting the classes you want. Heavy work load that supports the philosophy of "work hard, play har...   READ MORE
Current Student
Professors suck. They hate you. Unless you are cute. A prof gives an A for two bjs.   READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
Alumni
The Career Development Center at Bucknell prides itself on the high placement rates of recent graduates. Many companies recruit heavily out of Bucknel...   READ MORE
Alumni
They try their best to place you, but their forte is Engineers.   READ MORE
Alumni
Lots of opportunies for Banking. Career prospects could be better for those not interested in econ, marketing, ect.   READ MORE
Current Student
They train wannabe investment bankers.   READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
Alumni
Bucknell is situated in Lewisburg, a rural town in the heart of Central PA. No big cities, plenty of farmland and rolling hills. Bucknell takes fu...   READ MORE
Alumni
Everything was great, the housing, the safelty, the library the facilities.    READ MORE
Alumni
Great school, very safe, beautiful dorms, gorgous campus, very happy students who love the school.    READ MORE
Current Student
Sucks - the best thing is seeing Lewisburg in your review mirror.   READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
Alumni
If you love city life, then you probably are not even considering Bucknell. Because of its rural setting, Bucknell students primarily stay on camp...   READ MORE
Alumni
Not many bars in town, only 2 when I was there. Not really a college town, not much diveristy.   READ MORE
Alumni
Crazy campus social life, lots of fraternity parties-serious alcohol problem,the greek system is the social scene.. very few bars, no dating scene...   READ MORE
Current Student
Great for hookups. Hard stuff flows. No candy.   READ MORE

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