{"admissions":{"act_25":20,"act_75":26,"admit_rate":80.6,"applicants":18629,"sat_25":1020,"sat_75":1230,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":{"act_pct":68,"definition":"share of enrolled first-years who submitted a score (CDS C9)","sat_pct":18,"year":2023},"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Bowling Green State University is a public four-year college in OH. It admitted 81% of applicants (18,629 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1020\u20131230, ACT 20\u201326. 18% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 68% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $24,022 a year on average with aid, $33,007 a year at full price for in-state students.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $47,896 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $382,872 ahead with aid, $346,932 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Engineering ($93,626); Engineering-Related Fields ($89,514); General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations ($86,245).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 20% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Bowling Green State University: 3, 14 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often St Ignatius High School (3.3 per class year, 10 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023, 2024, 2025); The Seven Hills School (0.6 per class year, 3 over 5 class years, 2021-2025); Canterbury School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 6 class years, 2019-2024). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/bowling-green-state-university-main-campus.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Bowling Green State University: 2, 3 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Key School (0.3 per class year, 2 over 6 class years, 2021 - 2026, counted column \"Acceptances 2021\u20132026\"); St Anselm'S Abbey School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 5 class years, 2022-2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/bowling-green-state-university-main-campus.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/bowling-green-state-university-main-campus.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Public","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":18396},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":18547},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":21820},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":25741}],"full_price":33007,"in_state_basis":true,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":24022,"npc_url":"https://www.bgsu.edu/bursar/calculate-your-cost-of-attendance.html","tuition_in_state":14460,"tuition_out_of_state":22448},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":47896,"median_6yr_after_entry":41281},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":3,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, so this counts admissions rather than students, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times. 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