Ahhhh 12/18 guyssss!!!
BC sent email saying EA decisions will be released by email on 12/18!!!
For anyone in the same situation of not receiving the emails as me, I called admissions today and they said that a likely reason is if the email you put on your application has an unusual domain (like mine was specific to my high school). Apparently their systems have trouble with that… Anyone who’s worried about it can just contact admissions to give them a new email!
Just got an email from BC! EA decisions, or at least mine, will be posted on December 18!
Chanceme EA
GPA: 3.5uw/3.95w
SAT: 1500 (770m/730ebrw)
ACT: 34
ECs:
4 years of two sports and some coaching sports
Honors:
AP Scholar with Distinction
GPA award for sports
Notes:
Hardest schedule east year (will graduate with 10 aps)
Major is CS
From Northern Virginia
@SkNoVa you’re a strong candidate…which school? CSOM or MCAS? MCAS i would say you’re in for sure. CSOM you have a great chance but it’s very competitive.
SkNoVa, your stats are great (almost identical to my son’s) and i can tell you that it is still a crap shoot. If you look at prior EA threads for BC you will see the stats of people who were rejected and many are shockingly good. A lot of 3.8 uw, 34-35 ACT, many great ECs, lot of APs with good scores, and they were rejected. As collegemomjam says, which school you applied to is very important. CSOM you are much less competitive - but can still get in. Your geographic location is a big help. Good luck, you are clearly qualified… Also, what looks like a high acceptance rate is very misleading. Since they don’t do binding early decision and don’t purposely reject the very top students (knowing that they are likely to get into Ivies, the top NESCAC schools,etc.), Boston College is much more competitive than acceptance rate shows.
Bravo @BostonJD I have often stated that same fact on other BC threads…I think BC is overall now about at a 28% acceptance rate (had been low 30s for a while) which puts it around the same rate as many schools that are much easier to get in, especially if you are applying CSOM. BC doesn’t break out the acceptance rates, but I would guess that CSOM is between 15-17% acceptance rate. Lynch is the highest rate.
I have often praised BC, Georgetown, and Notre Dame for not caving into the whole ED game (and now the whole EDI, EDII, and EA that some schools offer!!!). They seem less concerned with rankings, and more concerned with getting the right applicants. Georgetown still has their own application and wants 3 subject tests, at a time when many top schools are making it easier to apply (IMO just to decrease acceptance rate and improve/hold ranking).
As a BC grad and mother of a current senior girl in CSOM, I cannot say enough good things about the school. If you get deferred, hang in there. This is a hard school to get in but if you do it is worth sweating it out.
Now that my daughter is a senior I am seeing what many of her peers are planning after graduation…my daughter has had a job lined up since the end of the summer, from an internship she had the year before. She works hard and has earned it, but BC definitely prepared her. Companies love this school. I know many others her age, some at some schools that are “more prestigious” that are still looking for jobs. The BC grads do GREAT. I’m really sad she is almost done. Hoping my son gets in next year!
@collegemomjam do you think there is any benefit to being a female applicant to CSOM? The numbers indicate nearly twice as many male as female students?
That’s a great question that I’ve always wondered. I always assumed yes. However, my daughter told me she heard it’s the opposite because they need boys. BC has the nursing school and school of ed and they are like 45/55 boys/girls so they need those boys in csom to make up for it. I"m not sure I believe that though. She also got into USC Marshall and Ross at Michigan when she got into CSOM and I was surprised by both (she had a strong application but her score was a little low…32 back in 2015). I often wondered if being female helped her at Marshall and Ross.
I don’t think being female will hurt in CSOM, but if it gives you and edge, I’m not sure. What did you put as your intended major? My daughter did finance and I do think there is a demand for females in finance (the industry as a whole…not sure if that impacts admissions anywhere!)
I think I have a completed app but never got an email about it and my portal still only has a list of things I submitted…is this a bad thing? I did not receive an email about when
That happened to me too! I think there’s probably several reasons why some people aren’t getting the emails, but when I called admissions a few days ago they told me that it was because my school email has an unusual domain, which their systems have trouble with somehow. I gave them a new email, but I don’t know yet if it has solved the problem since BC hasn’t sent out any more automated emails since then.
@dancinggirl13 wow you’ve been busy! My daughter is a sophomore Bio/premed major at BC. FYI they do not have a neuroscience major (you mention you are considering that)
Last year ea FWIW for the chance me kids
Dd accepted and attends. Despite being sick a lot her first semester She absolutely loves BC. FYI. Honors chem track which was a post acceptance process. Basic profile class rank 1 4.0 uw act 34. SS 35. Sat 1520 (?). 12 aps. Decent ecs and a sports captain but not nearly collegiate level ability. Mcas for biochem. Most of her friends have a similar backgrounds in the science classes. Not sure in recs or essays. Wouldn’t let me see them. Which was ok with us. Independent streak.
Waitlisted gtown and brown. Rejected Harvard accepted university of Florida honors (application. Is after acceptance)and Florida state honors BC was always first choice so didn’t actively pursue waitlists with follow up etc. so she didn’t accept her spot.
Best of luck. You’ll all be very happy where you land in the end. It always seems to work out for the vast majority. The schools who say no aren’t saying you’re not qualified or good enough. It’s just that they are building a class mosaic and maybe your spot is already filled. The school who says yes knows you’ll be happy and successful there. Trust yourself and the process.
I understand BC doesn’t track tours/information sessions. How, other than the essays, would they know a student has genuine interest in attending, rather than it being one of many schools they are applying to? I would assume expressed interest could help with their yield.
@dancinggirl13 and @immomtoone
BC DOES now have a neuroscience major!!! They just added it. It was on their facebook page I think…I don’t know why they aren’t listing it yet on the website but this was great news.
I’m positive about this. Private message me if you cannot find it and I can send you a link.
My daughter was one of the people not receiving the e-mails, and it was frustrating (she did get the previous e-mails for application confirmation and portal setup info). She has a normal domain for her e-mail address, so that wasn’t the issue. The only thing I was wondering that might be the cause was in the Agora portal, there is an option for “Email Services”. There was a confirm button on there for her email address. I’m pretty sure she never clicked on the button when she set up her account. Needless to say, I had her confirm it just in case that is the issue.
@collegemomjam Do you know if the neuroscience major is new? I swear when I applied that was not an option, so I chose biology.
Good luck everyone. I was in your spot this time last year and now I just finished my Spanish exam tonight at BC. This time last year I got deferred from EA and then had to wait 3 months to find out I was waitlisted from RD and then didn’t find out till June I got in off the waitlist. I know how agonizing it can be. But never give up. I love BC and it was worth the wait and the extra effort. One more exam. Good luck everyone.
@finn1313 yeah, you can major in neuroscience. I’m a biology major. https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/psychology/undergraduate/psychology-majors.html#neuroscience