<p>Hi Everyone, I am a senior this year and I just recently applied to Boston College Early Action. It is my top choice and I am wondering if I have the credentials to get in. I have a good connection to the school who will be writing me a letter of recommendation. Based on my academics/extra-ciriculars/connections, do you think I will get accepted, deferred, or denied?</p>
<p>Academics.
3.53 unweighted GPA
31 ACT's</p>
<p>Senior year
AP classes: biology, macro economics
Every other class is honors besides Spanish</p>
<p>Junior year:
All honors.
(school only offers 5 AP courses and these are only offered to seniors)</p>
<p>Extra circular:
Certified EMT (emergency medical technician) for towns volunteer first aid squad.
School service award for 350 hours of service per year.
School newspaper editor (Won Columbia University Press Association gold medal in 2012)
Nationally ranked tennis player (*next to college means I could play for team)
School tour guide
Peer leader
Jazz band saxaphone section leader
Varsity tennis captain, varsity cross country member
Job at jewelry store</p>
<p>You are right on the brink. If you are from an area where there are a lot of top kids applying, like the NYC, Boston, NEngland areeas, your chances are less than half. Look at your school Naviance, or ask your gcs how many kids apply from your school to BC and if the ones with your test score, course difficulty and class rank tend to get accepted. From my son’s school, you would not look good. From Columbus, Ohio, you would. BC is need blind so that won’t make a difference.</p>
<p>I would talk to the tennis coach. If he’s interested and shoots a memo to Admission that you are a possibility for the team, that would make it a likely admit for you.</p>
<p>I am from New Jersey so that is not in a diverse area for admissions. The tennis team is really good (in ACC) and I would not be able to make the team, so the coach would most likely not support me. Im hoping my connection is helpful, he is a jesuit professor there.</p>
<p>Nope, NJ is not. The thing is, your course load is not competitve. AP Calc and English would make it a bit better. Your ACT is right in there. If your high school is known to NJ, and it recognizes your course load and grades as hard won, then you have a good chance. Otherwise, you don’t. I know a bunch of kids from my son’s school with your profile, and they don’t tend to get in, and they often have connections there. You are close, and need one push to go over the bump, a sport would do it, a top class rank, a school well known to BC as rigorous in the courses you are taking. If the prof has pull with admissions, that would be a help Just being a prof there would not.</p>