<p>White Female from California
US Permanent resident from Estonia </p>
<p>GPA: 3.83w 3.47uw (?)
SAT: 700 cr, 660 w, 470 m (will retake for higher math score in sept or oct … whenever the next test is offered)
SAT II: Biology-M 720, Literature 590, Spanish 620
ACT: 24
AP: Biology 4, Spanish 3</p>
<p>Extra Curricular:</p>
<p>Leadership positions in several organizations
Youth Advocacy
lost of volunteer work
and an after school job at my parent’s salon </p>
<p>Senior Schedule:</p>
<p>AP phyisics
AP Gov/Econ
Choir
AP statistics
Honors Trig/precalc
English 1A at local college
Spanish 4 at local college
Nutrition at local college</p>
<p>No, you can apply as undecided in CAS, but it's very hard to tell you what your chances are without knowing that, as each school has very different requirements and acceptance rates.</p>
<p>I agree. If you can really focus on bringing up that math score that would make a huge difference and put you in the running. What the previous poster meant is that some schools within BU may have higher requirements that others, so Communicatiosn, SMG (School of Mangement) could be more competive than say CAS and of couse CGS.</p>
<p>The trouble with those numbers is that they do not tell you anything about your chances at a particular school of BU; they reflect only a nonexistent "average" admissions scenario.
In the school of music, the acceptance rate is lower than in CAS, about 33%, but the SAT scores and GPA lower. Conversely, a 1600 and 4.0 aren't going to be much help if you can't play/sing/paint/act/sculptor.
Similarly, SAR, COM, SMG, and others have admissions requirements well removed from those of CAS and CGS.
Perhaps worst of all, these averaged figures make various individual schools of the university look less selective than they are.</p>
<p>Class of 09--so does that link above mean that 25% of kids tested over 1410 on the SAT, what about the new SAT?
Is there an average score in the middle range?</p>
<p>I always thought the exact average was calculated differently since it took in the middle of the lowest and highest scores overall. For instance, the 25% over 1410 could be almost all in the 1400s or have signifacnt numbers in the 1500s so wouldn't that make a difference?t</p>
<p>The OP combined CR (700) and math (470) was 1170. The CR score is quite fine. If she can bring that math score up into the mid 500's or higher, her chances at BU will improve significantly. The writing subtest is good also, but BU as most other school does not really know how they will be using that score.</p>
<p>I called admissions and went to take a tour of BU so I sat through the info hour... they are counting the writing section so thus out of 2400 all together.</p>