Application Deadlines

How to Apply

Start with either the Common App or Coalition App.

Personal essays must be submitted electronically through the application website.

Pay the non-refundable $40 application fee or request a fee waiver through the application website.

Home-schooled Student Admission Requirements

• ACT or SAT scores.*
  • SAT code: 2050
  • ACT code: 3528
• One graded English paper.
• One writing sample from another subject.

*Note: for the 2020-21 application cycle, home-schooled students may choose to be test-optional because of challenges applicants may face in taking standardized testing during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This policy change will be re-evaluated at the end of the 2020-21 application cycle.

General Admission Requirements

Foreign Language

All applicants to all of Bucknell's degree programs are required to have completed a minimum of two years of a foreign language (in the same language) in secondary school.

Note: Coursework taken prior to the 9th grade does not count toward the two-year requirement.

Mathematics

All applicants to all of Bucknell's degree programs are required to have completed a minimum of two and one-half years of college-preparatory mathematics.

Engineering applicants and applicants to sciences or mathematics majors are expected to have completed a minimum of three years of college-preparatory mathematics, but their secondary school programs should include as much work in mathematics as possible.

Science

Engineering applicants are required to have one year of either chemistry or physics; however, Bucknell strongly recommends a minimum of three years of science, including chemistry and physics.