Boston College Early Action 2022 Deferrals Thread

My D was also deferred from Nursing- 1280 sat and 4.0 gap

My S was deferred from Nursing as well! Did anyone get in for Nursing?

Deferred to CSOM - 32 superscore, 3.79 UW, 8 AP’s I honestly had no idea that EA was that difficult to get into so def overestimated my abilities

also deferred:
-School of arts and sciences
-1390 sat
-88% gpa (im international so idk the whole 4.0 gpa thing)
-730 mat subject, 600 french subject
-AP: lit (3), lang (4), psych (4)
-decent ec’s and essays

I know my testing stuff isn’t that great but im still kinda bummed. tryna stay hopeful for the regular decisions. I’m probably gonna send a LOCI next week

I was also got deferred, which I’m pretty upset about, but I’m glad I still have the chance to get in RD.

  • Applied to MCAS
  • 1430 SAT
  • 34 ACT
  • 4.00 unweighted GPA (my school doesn’t do weighted GPA)
  • 9 APs: Bio (3), Lang (4), German (4), Calc AB (5)
  • Dual enrollment classes at Lafayette and Lehigh
  • Heavily involved in extracurriculars, specifically soccer and track
  • Really good letters of rec
  • Tons of volunteer hours
  • Decent essays

hey to those who are sending LOCI where are you sending them too?

What’s a LOCI?

@warrenb a LOCI is a letter of continued interest that some deferred students send in to Admissions to reinforce their interest in the school. Here students can claim school is their first choice and how motivated they are with some promising to accept their offer if eventually admitted, etc. etc. We didn’t do one.

Were can I find a LOCI to fill out?

@Banker1 is there a specific LOCI form I can fill out and send in? I’m very interested in that

@warrenb there isn’t a specific form but you can google “how to respond to a college deferral with a letter of continued interest” and see some pretty good advice.

http://blog.synocate.com/how-to-respond-to-a-college-deferral-with-a-letter-of-continued-interest

is there a lower chance of admission from a deferral?
BC was my #1 and this deferral feels like a huge setback. I know BC does not track interest–is the LOCI an encouraged follow-up?

@barelygrace http://bcheights.com/2018/01/17/3170-admitted-early-action-class-2022/

Thoughts on yield and an applicant’s location: from the article in the Heights (linked above), concerning BC’s emphasis on yield:
“Because BC has to compete with many prestigious institutions for students, the Office of Undergraduate Admission has boosted its efforts to increase the yield of accepted students.”
BC has reported in its annual fact book that its yield runs about 26% for 2020 and 2021 classes. BC also reports the yield by state. Not surprising that states with very strong public universities (Calif, Michigan, Virginia) have very low yields for the admitted BC applicants: (2020: 17% CA, 19% MI, 11% VA) and (2021: 16% CA, 14% MI, 16% VA). So being from one of these states is most likely a negative in their “holistic” review of an applicant.

I was focusing on the remark “boosted its efforts to increase yield of accepted students”. Sounds like a change in policy so might show up in lower acceptance rates in the current and future years. My guess is that most universities are using predictive analytics as part of their enrollment management efforts (BC has an office titled Enrollment Management, with employees with titles referring to predictive analytics). Their predictive models are a black box to us, but most of these models use past data on student characteristics and choices to make predictions. Is this what is meant by a “holistic” approach to admissions? a predictive model that uses SAT/ACT score, GPA, EC’s, visits to campus, etc. as input into the model and the output is a measure of the probability the student will enroll if accepted. The models produce a score (0-10) but it is essentially a probability/ log odds sort of measure. Distance from campus is an often cited variable for such a model. I can’t blame them - reading through 30,000+ applications is a tough job to do without the use of technology. But it becomes a game - applicants want to know what variables they are using. FYI: one company in the enrollment management industry is Hobson’s - they market their services to universities for enrollment management. They also own Naviance - a service that most high schoolers use. I assume that any data my son enters into Naviance is then used on the other end. Naviance also knows the list of schools to which he has applied. Can we assume that information is not sold? Big data, big questions.

Hard to believe that once upon a time if you were graduating from a Catholic high school in the Boston Archdiocese and had a rec letter from the principal you were virtually guaranteed admission.

@jojo99 I had wondered about that same quote, but with the emphasis on a marketing campaign and knowing that BC does not track campus visits, I have doubts about BC catching full-blown Tufts Syndrome. I’m sure they look closely at fit as always.

If BC accepted fewer students from states that were a lower yield in prior years, or used distance in a way that downgraded an applicant’s acceptance chances in order to protect yield, it seems to me that would regionalize rather than nationalize the university, the opposite direction I think it wants to go.

Perhaps geography is a distraction as it doesn’t differentiate among types of high schools. I do get the sense @TomSrOfBoston that there may still some benefit to applying from Catholic high schools.

Last year BC ended up having an over enrolled number of s

Students class of ‘21 so May be decreasing acceptance #s to avoid this happening again this year.

Back in the dark ages, a bunch of now highly selective schools were really easy to get into. At one time, you could drive up to USC (LA) on the first day in the fall, apply, and register for classes same day. The big UC’s (Berkeley and LA) used to accept nearly every minimally-eligible applicant.

Even H had a much, much higher admit rate.

btw: Didn’t BC used to run/own the Catholic prep school in town, so a strong rec from the proctor would easily be all you need for registration?