<p>Decision: Accepted to Arts & Sciences Honors Program</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2350+
SAT II: 3, all above 750
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 2% at competitive public
AP (place score in parenthesis): Three 5’s<br>
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 2 varsity sports (captain of both), non-scientific publication, an instrument, a few clubs/committees with some leadership or recognition
Job/Work Experience: yes–a few hours a week since freshman year
Volunteer/Community service: yes–done through my activities
Essay: I liked it a lot.
Teacher Recommendations: Both very good.
Counselor Rec: Sounded really good (but I feel like everyone’s must?)
Intended Major: Biology
State (if domestic applicant): CT
School Type: competitive suburban public. usually sends a couple to a few to the ivies every year.
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female </p>
<p>Congratulations to those who were accepted, and for those who weren’t, you will still end up at great colleges!</p>
<p>SAT: 780 M, 690 CR, 730 W
SAT II: 800 US Hist
ACT: 31
ECs: internships, cornell summer college, 14 years dance
Recs: awesome
Area of study: Biology</p>
<p>even if we don’t go to bc, we’re still going to college!! get excited.</p>
<p>Accepted to Carroll School of Management
(business)</p>
<p>East Asian
Female
NY
Public School - Very competitive
SAT: 2110
Rank: No rank
GPA: 93.5 / 100
I personally really liked my essay. I don’t know how much of my essay factored into my acceptance though.
Great rec from my precalc teacher.
ECS: many leadership positions, over 200 hours of community service, etc.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone :). I’m seriously considering attending BC.</p>
<p>^ I haven’t received my letter yet (in MA) I have the 6th tab and in my application status it says “withdraw application request”. Does it mean I am in or rejected?</p>
<p>sowmit - that is what happened to me yesterday when I checked and I got my acceptance today. There’s also a spot for the housing deposit, right?</p>
<p>No, I don’t see that. Can you tell me where is it please? It also might be because of my FAFSA. I mentioned that I will live of campus with my parents since I live literally 15 minutes away from Boston.</p>
<p>Edit: When I log in, I see 6 tabs. When I click on app status there is what it says—
If you have not previously paid your application fee, you may pay it here now.</p>
<p>If you would like to withdraw your application, please submit the Withdraw Application Request. "</p>
<p>Then a list of required and received documents.</p>
<p>Hmm. I’m not sure then. When I clicked on my application status it went to a window with an option for a housing deposit, withdrawing my admission, or deferring it. But the sixth tab is a good sign! You will probably be hearing from them on monday.</p>
<p>D got accepted today. But the $53K price tag is just sooo much!
A middle-middle income family with 2008 W2 of ~$148K (before taxes); about $100K after taxes. BC offering only loans, so we’d have to foot the entire $53K, now or later. That is just a ton of money for EACH YEAR!</p>
<p>Again, middle incomers are caught in a vice; if we made just $60-70K, we’d get lotsa free $$; and if we made $300K we’d be all set. But making a middle income wage of $148K, puts us in a very difficult situation, esp after losing quite a bit in the stock mkt.</p>
<p>Any other hard working families feel this way too??
Solutions?</p>
<p>Rejected. Just got it in the mail today. I didn’t even know it would come this early because it said that they wouldn’t send it out prior to April 15th. Whatever though. I got into Cal and UCSD and I would rather go to both of those over BC</p>
<p>jomass, we’re right there in the vise with you! We’re only seeing merit offers based on the same income profile you described. When you look at the offers my S has already received, we’re not feeling the love from BC. </p>
<p>I’m thinking that regardless of how the economic situtuation has impacted you, this may trigger a pardigm shift in how families look at college affordability. With a down market and affordable loans drying up due to the drop in equity, middle class families that do not have the merit aid are going to vote with their feet more and more and go for value in the state schools. Private colleges will in turn need to become more competitive in their offers if they want to keep cash flow from incoming students constant. </p>
<p>Although the power in the admissions game appears to be in the Adcom’s hands, every April the real power comes back to the consumer. It is now up to the schools to re-sell themselves to the admitted students. We only pick 1 school out of the 5-10 that have been applied to and the 100’s out there…</p>
