Accepted! Not my top choice though…
@Claireclaire24- yes, I would be too.
Good luck.
@Charlie2772 I don’t think @alwaysdriving was offended but was just trying to point out that BC isn’t a target school for a student with the stats you cited and in consideration of a 27% admission rate. So yes, it is advised to have likely, target and reach schools, but BC is a reach for almost all students given the selectivity (and most especially for regular decision.)
I got accepted!! Yay…but got virtually no financial aid at all. Other schools have given me both aid and generous merit money. They gave me 4 years of housing, so they kinda want me, I guess, but there is no way that my family can afford BC…and, as luck would have it, BC was my top choice. When we did the price calculator online and submitted our fafsa, the amount that we were supposed to pay was HALF what BC came back with…is this usual? I am sad.
Same here. BC and Georgetown pretty much want EFC +10k + subsidized loan from us. This is ridiculous. If my EFC is X, I am OK with paying X out of my pocket.
Well, I guess no BC or Georgetown for my kid …
In prior years, BC’s calculator has been close to the actual offer. Go back thru and run it again and see if you might have made an input error. If not, call BC and make an appt to speak to a FinAid counselor.
Hint: home equity can trip up applicants.
Waitlisted
2024 acceptance rate: 24%
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7000 accepted, 29400 apps (24% would be 7056)
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https://bcheights.com/2020/03/24/admissions-decisions-class-of-2024/
You know, EFC +10K might be do-able…but we would be expected to pay EFC plus 40K!!! And I’m the valedictorian. I could not have worked any harder…honestly. I did my best. Oh, well. It wasn’t meant to be. Boston College is the best…still love them…no hard feelings. Hopefully, there is something else waiting around the corner for me…but it’s getting late…tick, tock. lol
Accepted to MCAS! Very excited.
ACT: 35
GPA: 3.97 UW
I’ll have done 10 APs by the end of high school.
5 5s on AP tests so far
ECs are solid, essays were a little weak as I’m not the most thrilling writer.
My mom went to BC.
So far I’ve been…
Rejected from Notre Dame
Deferred from UChicago, Northeastern
Waitlisted by Vanderbilt, UCLA
Accepted to UCSB Honors, Cambridge, and Edinburgh
@evergreen5… with tight housing on campus as is, lets hope BC admissions didn’t under estimate the RD yield- otherwise, lots and lots of forced 3;s and 4;s.
Some additional info (Note the HUGE waitlist):
This year, Boston College received approximately 29,400 applications for 2,325 openings in the Class of 2024. As shared in a previous communication, 1,000 spaces were filled via Early Decision when we admitted 37% of ED applicants. This left 1,325 openings to be filled from a Regular Decision pool of 26,700.
The Regular Decision admit rate is 22%. The mean composite SAT for Regular Decision admits is 1467 and the mean composite ACT score is 34. Admitted students hail from 49 US states, 2 US territories, and are citizens of 78 countries.
We will offer a place on the waiting list to a little more than 6,500 students. While a waiting list of this size feels large, we feel it necessary given the many uncertainties facing our profession and society this year.
I don’t have anyone to talk to about this, so I made an account today and came here. I’ve been waitlisted at BC and Brandeis, and rejected from NEU. Those were my reach schools. I feel so lost and devastated: it’s as if I worked so hard for four years just to have it go to waste. I was president of the NHS, Secretary of student council, cross country and track captain, 1430 SAT score, 4.4 GPA, countless community service hours. Now I’m going to end up at my state school just like everyone else who made fun of me for working so hard.
BC class of 2024 admit rate is 23.3%. With hyper competitive applicant pool. 10 students apply and 8 receive disappointing news. And without the current health situation it would have been lower still.
Don’t hang your head. Focus on options not preferences.
Future burns bright for all of you.
The true mark of greatness is in the recovery from adversity.
Those who know tiger woods well asked to describe his greatness. The universal response was no one has ever been able to put the last bad shot out of their mind and on to the next one faster than him.
@2020seniorgirl Hi! The college admissions process is horrible in that it can make you feel horrible about yourself. You’ve put in so much hard work, and when you see a rejection, or waitlist, or whatever it may be, it is easy to feel like that hard work isn’t paying off. It’s a horrible feeling—one I’ve felt multiple times in the last few months. Please do not give up! The college admissions process, like I said, is horrible, but in other ways it’s great in that you can look at it as another challenge, another obstacle to overcome, and move forward. It’s okay to be upset, but please don’t give up. You didn’t put in all that hard work for nothing.
So problem resolved itself today on Ivy Day. Son got into 5 Ivies and our contribution is right around EFC.
Hey there @2020seniorgirl . Boston College student class of '21 here.
I know you’re going through a tough time, but you are going to get through it. The college admissions process was difficult for me too, but I want you to know that your hard work will not go to waste. I know the devastation of feeling inadequate, but this process isn’t personal. Rejection doesn’t mean you’re not good enough: it just means you didn’t fit their needs to fill this year’s class.
You will do well wherever you go. If you end up at a state school, you’ll be fine. You can transfer, or you might like it! Also, you might get off the waitlist: it happens more often than you think.
Stay strong, have faith in your abilities, and know that you’ll look back in a few years, when you’re sitting in your dorm room, and feel proud of all that you’ve accomplished.
What’s the difference between 3 and 4 years of housing? If you received 4 does that mean admissions liked you more?
^in a sense, yes. But what it really means is that your numbers were at the top xx% of the admissions pool. (Recruited athletes, nursing and a couple of other special programs automatically receive 4 years of housing.)
Accepted! So honored! Wish there was a better way than FaceBook and Instagram to meet other accepted students, though.