Great job! Please share some stats if you do not mind. Thanks.
Congratulations!!!
Thanks. I have posted her stats on another thread but here they are again.
GPA - 3.94 (UW) in a very competitive public high school in MA with 6 APs. School does not rank but she is top 2 in a class 0f 380 based on a senior award that she got.
ACT - 35 (one sitting)
No hooks.
I think ECs are important for being a Finalist. She is at a national level for her sport (not recruited though), lots of Art awards, community service, social justice work, founded her own sustainable company etc.
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I know essays are important, but Iām curious if having a really good supplement would be helpful to me. My stats arenāt quite where they should be for BC, but I think I wrote a really good essay about a unique community Iām apart of. Do you think it could make up for my sub par grades?
Didnāt get it. Does anyone know how many people are taken as finalists?
If anyone wants stats: 99.1/100 W GPA (3rd out of 95), 35 ACT, decent essays, good recs, DECA 2x ICDC (+ executive board) , captain of two sports teams and two other competition clubs, not much community service (did coach basketball though), tutored kid with ADHD for 2 years and umpired for a while
I am applying for Carroll Accounting
Approximately 50 finalists with 15 ultimately chosen.
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There will be 18 scholar total. Just received an email of not being chosen.
" > The Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program committee has completed its review of candidates and all finalists received notification of their selection yesterday. With over 8,000 candidates considered for just eighteen Presidential Scholarships, the competition was extraordinary."
It is hard to believe within 2 month, AO went through 8000+ applications thoroughly (word by word). I bet there is a simply āauto-disqualifyingā system that helps them filter out most of the applicants.
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So if there were 8k apps before Nov 1, around 2k ED1 and 6k RD apps applying early specifically to be eligible for Gabelli.
Since the point of the scholarship is to poach ivy-level applicants, I suspect the first cut is not that hard to make. Keep in mind that just two years ago, when they had unrestricted EA, they evaluated 16k apps for admission by December. While that proved to be too much volume, my guess is that cutting among 8k for the scholarship would be simpler than deciding admission.
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Agree. If with a filtering software/system, cutting 100k apps wonāt be challenging. 
However, if AO read all applications word by word, I cannot believe it.
They donāt need a computer filter to make the initial cut (and honestly that sounds too automated for them lol but I have no personal knowledge). Nor do they need to read every single word of an app to eliminate it from scholarship contention. A quick glance at rigor and GPA would probably eliminate a huge portion of them.
That said, they are absolutely capable of reading 8k apps between Nov 1 and Jan 1, about 9 weeks minus a week for the holiday, letās say 1000 apps/week. For RD, they probably have an additional 21k apps to read between Jan 1 and late March, 11 weeks, an even faster pace, almost 2k apps/week.
(Looks like they have about 19 admission officers. 1000/week would be 52 apps per AO per week, or 11 per day. That does not sound terrible, even though I have no idea what their actual process is. Presumably the serious apps take longer than the less competitive ones)
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Now I am guessing the AO works a couple of months stress-fully and enjoy the rest of year off (with pay). 
Congrats to your daughter! Very exciting!
My DS20 was a finalist last year and it was such an honor to be flown in to Boston as he had never toured BC. Sadly, he was not selected (I wouldnāt feel too bad for him as heās attending another highly selective school on the west coast.)
The one thing I would suggest is if BC is your daughterās first choice, make sure they know that. My son didnāt have a 1st choice school, he just wanted to see what offers came his way. But it seemed that the students that were selected were the ones who really, really wanted to attend BC (according to my son anyway). Good luck! Would love to hear how the interviews go!
So in another words, simply, the ED applicants have much bigger chances. This IS THE FIRST CHOICE for them.
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My son said he knew of only 1 finalist that applied ED. (There may have been more.) Iām sure they consider many factors, but my guess is they want to offer the scholarship to students who will accept the offer.
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@Cambriamom, thank you so much for your insights. If it is OK with you, I will message you to learn more about the interview process that your son went through. I am glad to hear that your son is in a happy place though he was not selected. I understand that it is a very competitive process.
BTW, my D21 also applied RD since BC (though we are in MA) was not her first choice. But she seems to be liking this program a lot and it has risen to the top of her list if she gets selected.
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Sure! Feel free to message me.
Iāve been a long-time lurker on CC but donāt have many posts. Iām hoping that wonāt be an issue with messaging?
I uploaded documents they asked for in my financial aid portal , and they havenāt accepted 2/4 documents. Itās been 1 week. Should I email them?
@asdfgabjkl Hi did they ask everyone for financial documents? I just got a message from them saying some financial documents are missing . My daughter didnāt know until I got that message
I happened to go to the financial aid portal and found out I was missing 4 documents. They didnāt tell me anything at all