<p>So…I wasn’t the best applicant ever…but I didn’t even get deferred?</p>
<p>3.8 UW GPA</p>
<p>I took 12 Honors/AP/IB classes during HS</p>
<p>2120 SAT (1400 CR+M)</p>
<p>Managing Editor of the Newspaper</p>
<p>Reasonably good essay</p>
<p>Kind of in denial…anyone else feeling the same way?</p>
<p>I’m very surprised. Were your essays written in haste, without much thought? Maybe you made a glaring mistake? Other than that, I am shocked because BC tends to defer reasonable applicants-- They defer around 50% of all EA applicants, and reject only about 20%</p>
<p>What was your class rank? Any other ECs?</p>
<p>KBronx
Something is wrong there. Your stats are above the BC averages. I could maybe understand a defferel (maybe) but your stats are too strong to get denied. I would call them, ask to talk to an admissions advisor then ask them to take a look at your application. I personally think unless you have a criminal record (lol) that something is wrong with your app, if you can correct it you could then have a shot at RD. Good luck!</p>
<p>That is odd. I saw lower stats accepted/deferred. Like, way lower stats. (I myself have a 3.6 UW with a 2120/1460, and a similar class load. If it matters, I’m OOS in MI)</p>
<p>Don’t really have an explanation. Honestly, to me, I oddly feel better about my application now; they must have seen something worthwhile in me to defer me while rejecting someone with a similar profile.</p>
<p>Dear KBronx17 : Trying to provide a profile critique on a rejected application is simply not fair as commentary can only be seen as “piling on”. Look at your course work compared to the highest level at your High School, critically review your essays, and review that all of your scholastic achievements and awards have been listed along with your sports, music, arts, volunteerism, community service, and related activities. </p>
<p>Again, sorry to hear about your rejection and good luck in uncovering the institution that will be the right match during the regular decision round. Remember that even highly qualified candidates can and do get rejected and your challenge will be how you now respond to improve your regular decision applications.</p>
<p>This is actually quite surprising to me. I got accepted EA and have taken 6 AP classes and 1900 SAT (1300 2 Score). I have very good ec’s but I feel that what got me in was my writing. I consider myself to be a strong writer and I took a chance on the supplemental essay. I talked about Santa Claus and how it taught me humility and skepticism ^^. But hey if they don’t want you, forget it. There are plenty of colleges out there that would love to have you.</p>
<p>I am quite skeptic about your standard of “reasonable” stats, no offense. Test scores do not mean you will be accepted into any colleges. Even 2300s can be rejected from lack of ECs. I would work on improving your ECs man, since your SAT scores are not great enough to get you right into BC or other schools as good as BC. Correct me if I am wrong, since I am not an applicant of BC and I might be mistaken</p>
<p>Another way to view at an academic profile (GPA & SAT/ACT scores) is that it puts your application into the pool of applications to be further evaluated. It’s in that pool where the adcoms then look further at the big picture of your application. Once in that pool, a stronger profile can help, but it’s no longer the primary focus. Scottj’s many comments do a great job highlighting the areas an application can look stronger beyond the academics.</p>
<p>Being rejected is not something to be taken personally. With 30,000+ applicants, BC adcoms know they have to turn away many qualified individuals. That message really hit me when I heard the director of admissions at MIT tell us they could fill the entire freshman class with qualified applicants from Massachusetts alone.</p>
<p>I’m in denial. I had just a little below your stats but my extra-curriculars, recommendations, etc. made up for it. I’ve wanted to go to bc since 7th grade so it sucks. Took me a while to get over it…</p>
<p>You have nothing to lose and other applications to finalize, so I would get in touch with your regional rep (or have your guidance counselor call) and at least see if they will tell you any reason for the rejection. Or get someone knowledgeable and objective to review your whole app. You might as well learn something from this.</p>
<p>If BC was looking for the highest stats, they’d have computers do admissions and save a lot of money. But they’re not; they’re looking for people, the complete picture. You should have never expected to get into any college simply based on your stats.</p>
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<p>Strongly disagree. Let it go, and get focused on those others apps. Unless the GC is buddy-buddy with the regional rep, the only thing the rep will say is, competitive group, blah, blah, blah. Plus, the reps are on vacation until after New Years. </p>
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<p>Yes, that would be a good function for the GC, who can also call up the recommenders and ask how strong those recs really are.</p>
<p>Good luck Kbronx.</p>
<p>Have someone proof-read and edit your essays and all other materials. I’m not a college admissions officer, but I’ve been involved in hiring recent college grads and there is nothing worse than seeing typos and poor grammar in an application. It is more common than you can imagine, even from BC grads.</p>
<p>BC’s not the only game in town. You do have great stats and undoubtedly a great story to tell. If its Boston you want, look at BU and Northeastern. Both great schools with much to offer. It its Jesuit you want, look at the other great options throughout the USA. Think big.</p>
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What if they made a mistake.? We’ve seen colleges send out acceptances when they meant to sent rejections ( Vassar IIRC and others) Following up has no downside. They already rejected you so may find out if there is a problem so hopefully you can correct it for other schools…</p>
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<p>It…will…never…happen. There is zero chance – zero – of an adcom actually telling you what the weakness(es) were in the application. They may tell your GC, but not you the applicant.</p>
<p>Look at it from their pov, what is the upside to them to go into a long, sordid discussion of the applicant’s weaknesses? It is a waste of their time. The ONLY thing you would here is the standard pablum: ‘most competitive class ever’, yada, yada, yada.</p>
<p>Time to move on.</p>
<p>Dear jandjdad and Other Readers : If you have any doubt, re-read bluebayou’s response. A rejected applicant will not under any circumstances be given the definitive reason for why an application was rejected. It is the APPLICANT’S job to understand the weaknesses in an application; this is NOT a function of the review committee. The review committee is protecting the UNIVERSITY’S interests, not the applicants.</p>
<p>Remember that if your application was outright rejected during the EA round, the material effectively scored in the bottom 20% of the application pool. In other words, there were four more intriguing applications for every one that was rejected. Not only will an adcom not have access to all of the review information (multiple readers reject a rejected application), but the personal risk in sharing that negative feedback with an unknown applicant is large.</p>
<p>Taking additional action on a rejected EA application is simply a waste of time.</p>
<p>2110 SAT
3.91 weighted GPA
US history: 4 AP calc AB and BC: both 5s
5 APs all together – I don’t know how many honors, a lot
good ECs and Recs I assume
Phenominal essay
varsity athlete 4 years, soccer and lacrosse</p>
<p>I was expecting a deferral, might not be as wonderful as your stats, but oh well. off to RD</p>
<p>Similar to what bluebayou and scottj stated, a friend of mine who worked as an adcom at two top-20 schools once told me they will never ever discuss why an applicant was rejected. </p>
<p>Aside from it being something they had no intention or desire to do, she said many times it’s impossible to go back revisit an application to try and recreate the reason for a rejection. That “discussion” is long gone.</p>
<p>Instead, she stated they made sure they could always look back at an “accepted” application and state why an applicant was accepted.</p>
<p>Scottj and Bayou,
Maybe I wasn’t clear. I’m not suggesting that the OP ask for the reason for his/her rejection, just to ask the adcom to make sure it wasn’t a mistake. If you take every decision at face value and never question the ones that seem outside the norm (and this one does, based on stats only- not knowing the whole picture), then there is potential for a mistake to go unrectified. I’m not suggesting he ask the cause for his outright rejection, just to make sure there wasn’t a mistake. With an early action admission rate of 44% and SATs that appear to be near the top 25% of enrolled freshman per collegedata.com, it seems odd. You can call it naive to expect them to even check it again but with such a huge number of applicants, how is it unreasonable to think that maybe there could b a mistake? Again, what is the downside, he already was rejected. Maybe because I have seen too many mistakes in things much more important than even college admissions to just accept things that I think it’s not too much to question it…
If it had been a school with a single digit acceptance rate I would totally agree with you, but in this instance unless there are some very important factors being left out…</p>