Boston College Class of 2023 Early Action Thread

Does the decision come out on the portal? or are we emailed our decision?

@collegeisstress decisions do not come out on the portal- they will be e-mailed. that much i know.

Does anyone know how much BC stresses SAT scores??? I’m close to 25% and it’s making me so anxious that I wont get in, my stats are below:

SAT: 1390 (I recognize this isn’t traditionally low, but it is low in relation to what Bostons range is)

GPA: 3.95 (UW) 4.07 (W on 4.3 scale)

AP’s: Biology, Psychology, Art

Course load: all honors (except English) I go to a private/Catholic school so I don’t get many opportunities for electives/AP’s… I’m hoping colleges will recognize this

EC’s: Founder and Editor of School Newspaper (started it my sophomore year), Math Honors Society, National Honors Society, Writing Honors Society, President of Spanish Honors Society and Spanish club, Violin, Varsity diver (districts qualifier), Some service (nothing specific)

Any comments on my chances would help. (Even negative ones!)

does anyone have any idea of what time the decisions will be emailed?

Historically between 5:40 pm and 6:00 pm… Also, in the past rejections and deferrals have come out in the first batch of emails, acceptances in the second batch. Doesn’t mean it will be the same this year, obviously. What I’m wondering about is the increase in EA applications now that BC let’s you apply EA even if you are applying ED elsewhere.

Here are my stats:
Female
School: Private Catholic School
From: Florida
Race: Caucasian
Major: Psychology BS
Extras : Lower income, have a twin sister

Stats:
ACT: 35 Composite
SAT 1500
Rank: 11/300
GPA (weighted): 5.1
GPA (unweighted): 3.95
AP’s Taken: APWH, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, APUSH, AP Euro, AP Lit, AP Language, AP Calc AB, AP Computer Science, AP Psychology, AP Gov
Classes: all AP or honors

Extracurriculars:

  • Varsity lacrosse starter all 4 years (MVP 3 Years in a row)
  • Travel lacrosse (9-11)
  • Key Club Secretary / Historian (11-12)
  • Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society (9-12)
  • National Honor Society (11-12)
  • Social Interactions Club President (10-12)
  • Dance Marathon Hospital Coordinator (12)
  • Student Government Exec Board (10-12)
  • Student Leadership Exec Board (9-12)
  • Senior Athletics Club Executive Board (12)

Community Service:

  • 100+ Hours volunteering with Horses and the Handicapped
  • volunteering at local church
  • Coordinated toy drive, animal shelter drive, and blood drives
  • Dance Marathon Chair
  • time spent volunteering at library and animal shelter
  • Special Olympics and Relay for Life Coordinator

Honors:

  • AP Scholar with distinction
  • High honor roll (9-12)
  • Girls Lacrosse MVP (3 years)
  • Excelsior Student Distinction

Essays:

  • both very strong

Letters of Rec:

  • AP Lit teacher probably excellent,
  • Philosophy teacher/ Dean of Discipline, probably very good
  • Counselor rec probably very good

based on stats alone, i expect you will get accepted but many 4.00’s and 1500 sat’s did not get accepted . Strange but true. Go back and read the stats from the class of 2022 RD thread.

I’m so nervous, I got rejected from ND last Friday, so I’m thinking that’s not a great sign…

My stats:
Female
School: Private Catholic School
From: Virginia
Race: Caucasian
Major: Management and Leadership (CSOM)

Stats:
ACT: 32 (E 34, R 32, M 32, S 30)
SAT 1370 (didn’t send)
Rank: n/a
GPA (weighted): 4.153
GPA (unweighted): idk
AP’s Taken: AP Chem, APUSH, AP Psych, AP Calc AB, AP Stats
Classes: all AP or honors (besides required religion class)

Extracurriculars:
-Student Council Representative
-Catholic Witness Club (vp)
-founder and president of Baking Club
-worked at local bakery during summer and weekends for 2 years
-Girls Who Code
-book club
-Member of school musical (junior & senior year)
-Varsity Tennis (mvp award, captain sr year)
-National Honor Society
-Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society
-Science National Honor Society (officer)

Community Service:

  • 60+ hours of service, but I’m a genuine idiot and did not highlight on my application

Honors:
-Spanish award (9,10)
-Public Speaking award (11)
-St. Michael’s College Book Award (11)

Essays:

  • strong common app essay
  • not so strong supplement but pretty good content

Letters of Rec:

  • advisor/previous religion teacher who I have a great relationship
  • english teacher who also directs theater productions that I have been in

@mollymg01 I was rejected from ND too, your stats are pretty similar to mine. Lets keep our fingers crossed!

Don’t sweat it. ND loves legacies and you’ve worked hard to even consider such great schools. Good luck.

@cdr2001 I’ll keep mine crossed for us both! Best of luck with BC and everything else!

@privatebanker ND was, unfortunately, my top choice. Once I was rejected, I wasn’t even sad, I was just mad and upset about how tailored ND’s process of admitting is (with legacies and the large amount of athletes). At my high school, in recent years, the only students who have gotten in were either incredible athletes or both of their parents went to ND. BC is my top choice now, and I would be more than happy to attend if I got in, plus it has so many pros (I hope I don’t make BC sound like a “rebound”)! Anyways, good luck with everything!

Not to throw cold water on anything buy my advisor let me know yesterday that BC’s early applications increased 54%! Looking at 2022’s EA application rate of 10,350 last year would suggest BC received nearly 16,000 applications for 2023’s EA pool. Ugh! I think this is going to be a tough one tonight. It would also explain why BC took longer to release its EA decision.

I think they also are releasing later this year because they were very clear that if you applied elsewhere ED, and got in, you must withdraw your BC application. So they may have been allotting time for that to happen.

@Gooder - That’s a massive jump (!)

Would be ironic, as well, given that the new head of undergraduate admissions at BC was quoted in an article this Fall that he did not want to simply boost application #s to appear more selective. That section of the article reads:


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The easiest way to increase selectivity is to attract more applicants, and many admission offices spend considerable resources to build their pool of prospective students. BC’s admissions office is not interested in inflating application numbers, according to Gosselin. He sympathizes with the psyche of high school students in the college process and does not want BC to contribute to the proliferation of applications.

“We’re really focusing on those students that have identified BC as a good match,” Gosselin said. “It’s our goal to try to reach as many students as we can, but our goal has not been and will not be moving forward simply to boost our application numbers for the appearance of selectivity.”


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Full article link is here: http://bcheights.com/2018/09/02/new-undergraduate-admissions-director-talks-yield-and-diversity/

I heard that BC EA applications are up 45% --this is not surprising given that BC relaxed the rules (you can now apply ED to one school and still apply EA to BC).

Last year: “In December, the University admitted 3,170 students, for an early action acceptance rate of 31 percent.”

So, IF they keep to EA acceptance size to approximately 3,170 and the pool increases to 16,000 applications, then we’re looking at 20% EA acceptance this year.

Also, BC has a new Director of Admissions so strategies may be different this year…


BTW, I saw Notre Dame rejected 60% of EA applicants this year.

I find it hard to believe that applications were up that much as well but that is what was communicated to me from my college advisor. I know there are a lot of my peers applying to school as well so I am concerned as I would assume that 2-3 max would be accepted from one school. I guess we will know in a couple days when that admission statistics are released.

@Gooder - to clarify…I found the increase amazing, not that I didn’t believe you (!)

My comment about the irony is that it their plan was to NOT have a huge increase in applications, their strategy didn’t appear to work

Not sure if the EA increase will result in a significant increase in applications overall. Some of this year’s increase likely comes from ED applicants to Cornell, Penn, Duke, and NESCAC schools (Tufts, Middlebury, etc). In previous years, this type of applicant would apply RD to BC (if they were deferred or rejected at their ED school). This year they can apply EA to BC which has frontloaded application #s

It isn’t necessarily a huge increase in applications. It is a shift from RD to EA. Obviously applications will increase because people who get into their ED school (and thus would never have applied to BC under the old method) will now be an extra application, but overall I think it is shifting a lot of the same applicants from RD to EA. BC’s goal is to have the same acceptance rate between EA and RD, so I wouldn’t expect the acceptance rate to plummet (as in same number of acceptances despite the massive increase in EA applications). It will go down, but not like some of the the math I’ve seen in prior posts. If it goes down, deferrals will increase, rather than rejections. If my son doesn’t get in tonight, we are basically screwed. Can’t count on deferred acceptance to RD, so we’ll have to pick a much worse school to ED2 (to be on the safe side.) This whole system-gaming by the other schools really puts you in a corner…

Good luck to everyone, and just expect a deferral and you will be fine. A LOT of deferrals will get in RD.

So is this the first year BC has offered EA? What have they done in prior years?