Desired school: Boston College, Morrissey College of Arts and Science
Background: White male from a competitive Catholic school
Major: Undecided
Applying: Early Decision I
Legacy: Father attended BC Law, donates every year.
GPA: 3.45 unweighted (School has grade deflation, upward trend since freshman year, junior year I had a 3.65, top 20% of my class)
SAT: 1420
AP Classes: 4 (Calculus AB, Biology, Statistics, Language and Composition)
Honors & Awards: High Honors (9, 10), President’s List (11, 12), Secretary of State’s Civic Leadership Award, National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta Mathematical Honor Society
ECs: Mentor kids with special needs in math and life skills, summer internship at a local pediatric cancer organization (2 summers), president of school’s philanthropy club, co-president of school’s Spanish club, math peer-tutoring.
Common App Essay: 8/10
Supplemental: 8/10, wrote about how BC will help me work towards the common good, classes/professors I would take in this journey and how they would benefit me in my service work.
It might be helpful for you to talk to your school counselor to understand what kinds of students from your high school have been accepted to BC. You SAT is within their published middle percentiles.