<p>Hey thanks for reading this! I’ll try to outline my stats as fast as possible. I applied to BC RD and it is my dream school (I didn’t apply EA because I heard it was more competitive and I didn’t think my UW GPA would hold up). </p>
<p>Sex: M
State: MA
High School: Private, catholic - sends about 7 to Ivies each year (most are athletic recruits)
Major: Biology</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA UW: 91/100
GPA W: 106/100
AP Classes: (none offered for freshmen or sophomores)
Junior Year: AP Calc AB - 5, AP US History - 4, AP English Language (self-study) - 5
Senior Year Schedule:
AP Spanish Language, AP Biology, AP Psychology, AP English Literature, AP Statistics, Bioethics (Mandatory theology class)</p>
<p>Test Scores:
SAT I: CR 770, M 790, W 760, T 2320
SAT II: Math II 790, Lit 720, Spanish 700
AP scores above, ACT not taken</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (only important ones listed)
-) Hospital Volunteer, over 100 hours
-) All years Varsity tennis, Captain senior year
-) National honor society
-) Academic Decathlon, captain senior year
-) Math team, captain senior year</p>
<p>Awards:
-) AP Scholar
-) Numerous honor roll awards</p>
<p>So do you guys think I have a chance of being admitted RD to BC? If I am, I will be attending.</p>
<p>Seriously? My guidance counselor told me with my relatively low GPA (at my high school I’m only in the top 20 students) that I shouldn’t apply EA because I wouldn’t get in. </p>
<p>Also I think my extracurriculars are pretty average…I know my test scores are good but that was mostly luck because I hardly prepared for the test and somehow managed to do really well. I don’t know maybe I just lack confidence :/</p>
<p>In my first post I seriously was about to bet that the reason why you didn’t apply EA was because of your guidance counselor.</p>
<p>As for your EC, you culminated into a leader for three of them. That’s very impressive. The golden rule for ECs is depth not number. BC loves leadership experience.</p>
<p>Aww thank you so much. There is one other issue…I wrote my essay about being gay at a catholic school, how I am not the stereotypical gay guy (love sports, many guy friends, etc), but how that has ultimately affected me as a person, my drive, and dedication to do well. My guidance counselor read this and thinks that BC, as a Catholic school, will not be too thrilled with the essay. </p>
<p>That being said, I also forgot to mention I am a member of my local parish’s youth leadership council, a group of about 7 students chosen by the youth minister to be leaders of the teenage members of the church. Do you think the essay will hurt my chances? I think BC is more liberal than some may believe but I’ve also heard nursing students aren’t even allowed to be educated about reproductive technology because it goes against catholic teaching…so I don’t know. </p>
<p>Are you <em>actually</em> this worried that BC’s admissions department is filled with prejudiced Catholic bigots to the point where merely writing an essay on a subject like that will get you rejected, or are you just asking “stress questions” to pass the time? And if you sincerely have such concerns, why are you even considering Boston College?</p>
<p>It’s natural to be worried (and nothing wrong with making a thread like this, lest I came off as harsh in the above paragraph), but I do not believe that you fully believe what you have written. We all know guidance counselors can oversimplify matters quite a bit, and I’m sure you are aware that you have an outstanding list of achievements.</p>
<p>I will say this: not to sell myself (or BC) short, but on paper I have a resume half as good as yours: just one significant extracurricular, a GPA that’s been to hell and back (and, might I add, lower than 100% of the possible total), a mere single AP test to my name, a sub-2300 SAT, and I go to public school. I got into Carroll Early Action without worrying for one second that I would not get in, and I was actually a bit bummed I missed out on the honors program. Sure, I was overconfident – nothing is ever a lock when it comes to admissions and I’m not a straight-A student by any means – but at least I was <em>confident.</em> Confident that I was trending supremely in the right direction, confident that my essay would help me stand out from the pack, confident that there was no conspiracy working inherently against me (I also didn’t have a guidance counselor telling me that stuff, but the point stands). I think that deep down we both understand that you have, at worst, an incredibly good chance of being accepted, and, naturally, little to truly worry about. Just enjoy yourself while you can and try not to think about college admissions until the envelope is in your hands, because there’s nothing you can do.</p>
<p>Dear eagledreaming : Can you explain how your school weights averages? It seems impossible to have an unweighted 91 become a weighted 106 - this is 16.5% uplift which seems outlandish. Most schools will weight an AP course between 10% and 15% at very most. To get to a 106, you would have had to have some awful grades in non-weighted classes and great grades in the your AP courses.</p>
<p>Oh and, to answer your question, my medical problems sophomore year resulted in a lot of Bs, some low some high, and a few lower As (I had an A+ in Spanish, but that was honors level). I took three APs junior year and five this year, which boosted my GPA quite a bit as I got As in those each term.</p>
<p>Sorry for the third post, but to tie it all together: sophomore year I was in all honors 1 and a one honors course. I didn’t do well in some of the honors one courses, (B- or so), bringing my average down. However, junior year I got mostly As (one B) in AP and Honors 1 classes (nothing lower), so I was able to get my weighted GPA up quite a bit.</p>
<p>Is this a joke? Gay guy, great grades and boards, NHS, tons of APs, overcomes medical problems, very active, active outside school - church no less, overcomes prejudice to be leader in multiple groups. I smell a ruse here. Either that your school should fire the GC, this mythical (or mystical) person would be a shoe-in anywhere.</p>
<p>PS: I think BC gets a bum rap on this but why would a gay guy want to go to a school that Princeton review has as top 10 “unfriendly” to Gay/Lesbians?</p>