<p>Personal Info
-I go to a public school in Texas.
-I am a senior.
-I am white.
-First generation.
-3.6 GPA
-Top quarter of my class.
-SAT: 1900
-SAT II Lit: 670
-SAT II US History: 650 </p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars/Other
-President of Leos Club (Community Service Organization)
-President of Mu Alpha Theta (Mathletes)
-Secretary of NHS
-Vice President of the Class of 2012
-President of our LGBT program.
-Logged 175 hours of community service.
-Art Club Representative
-Student Council member
-Member of the Academic Decathlon
-Columnist/Senior Editor of the Newspaper
-Worked at Barnes and Noble for the past year and a half.</p>
<p>AP Courses
-AP Statistics
-AP World History
-AP US History
-AP Government
-AP Comparative Government
-AP Microeconomics
-AP English Language and Composition
-AP English Language and Literature
-AP Biology
-AP Environmental Science
-AP Spanish 4
-ACADEC</p>
<p>My GPA isn’t perfect and I have made some C’s… but yeah… what are my chances?</p>
<p>Strikingly similar stats to the person immediately below you on this thread! I will give you the same advice:</p>
<p>Our DD’s stats/EC’s were similar to yours (higher SAT, lower ECs). She was deferred in ED, and accepted regular decision this past year. BU is getting more and more selective -it is a terrific school and worth working hard for. I think what pushed her over the hump is that she thoroughly researched the school and included many non-obvious suggestions into the portion of the Common App about why she wanted to go speecifically to BU (I believe it was a “where do you see yourself in four years essay”). For example, she read old copies of BU Today, looked into the Community Service Center offerings, researched her college’s current newsletters, etc. She even went on rate my professors dot com and included the name of a popular professor who got great ratings in her essay! It is that level of commitment to the school as an applicant that I think pushed her over the edge. In my opinion, BU’s current administration (Dean Elmore who is totally a hoot is the Dean of Students) is passionate about passion, and that is what they look for. Good luck!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I think your stats are a bit low. BU is very hard to get into nowadays. The applicants from New England often have very high stats.</p>
<p>Being from Texas will probably be an advantage, as they probably get “too many” applicants from New England.</p>
<p>Let me also suggest to you that you check out University of Connecticut as well. And University of Massachusetts Amherst.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I agree, Floridadad - although our DD’s SATs were 2150, her GPA was lower, and her EC’s not as strong. I would recommend you take another SAT class and really work hard on the essays. You can do it!! You are the editor of a newpaper! (And by the way, they have at least 3 publications - BU Today, BU Quad I think, and another alternative - I have been very impressed with their media savvy.) Don’t rule out College of General Studies if you are lucky enough to get in - you can start courses in your major, and get a GREAT foundation and network of advising. Awesome program, and at the end you get your pick of other schools to move into.</p>
<p>Yeah I also disagree with floridadad - the average GPA at BU, listed by naviance (which is one of the most reliable sources), is a 3.54, and the average SAT is a (1770 - 1980).</p>
<p>Your SAT is good - Im not going to be like most other CCers and say that you NEED to work on it. Your SAT fits right in with what Boston University is looking for.</p>
<p>So looking at your GPA, which is about the average, and your SAT, is at the average, I’d say, pretty obviously, you have an average shot at getting in.</p>
<p>Meaning - its a coin flip…there’s no reason for you not to get in, but there is nothing that makes you more appealing than the next BU applicant.</p>
<p>Now, if you OPTIONALLY chose to took an SAT course, and raised it to 2000 or above, you’d start to stand out.</p>
<p>No offense to shoot4moon, and Im sorry if I put words in her mouth, but for her daughter to have that high of an SAT (which is pushing Ivy league status) the GPA must have been pretty low - I am assuming somewhere around a 3.2 - 3.4?</p>
<p>I could be totally wrong but I can’t imagine someone getting deferred ED with a 2150 and anything over a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>Naviance only shows statistics from your particular school and/or other schools that use Naviance. There are many, many schools that send students to BU that don’t use Naviance. I would therefore say that Naviance may be a reliable source for your school, but the difinitive source is Boston University’s admissions office. The statistics that BU released for the Class of 2015 are an average SAT score of 1993, an average GPA of A- and an average class rank of top 9%. The acceptance rate for the class of 2015 was just 48%, compared to 58% in the previous year. So, while nobody on this or any other message board can give a definitive answer as to whether or not this poster will be accepted to Boston University, all 3 of the stats listed are in the bottom 50% for Boston University.</p>
<p>Fishymom - one thing you need to understand is that schools SEVERELY INFLATE the statistics on their website. </p>
<p>Top 9%, if you go to a solid school, is a HIGH A, which is pushing Ivy Leagues. The average Gpa at BU is a 3.54, which has been the common answer among NUMEROUS websites…so sorry, top 9% with an average gpa of a 3.54 - 3.6 don’t exactly add up…Also the middle 50% of BU, I can guarantee is NOT 1993…</p>
<p>Just use common sense - if that is an average, that means a MASSIVE amount of students needed to apply to the school and enroll with scores in the range of 2100 - 2300…since an average of 1993 implies that a massive amount of students applied and enrolled with probably a 1700 - 1800…</p>
<p>so sorry, again, BU is a great school - but the stats they are throwing in people’s faces on their website are more suitable for the Elite schools</p>
<p>I just have to add my 2 cents. I’ve been following this thread. First of all, GPA is GPA is GPA - every high school calculates it differently and even if they don’t rank, they do some sort of histogram that gives colleges an idea of where the kids fall; top 10% etc. So a kid who might be 10% in one school may be top 5% in another - which means BU’s top 9% is nonsense. They probably get that number from the histogram which varies from school to school anyway - so it means NOTHING.
SAT’s on the other hand are pretty hard to fake.</p>
<p>@rbethell76, you do of course understand that the statistics quoted on ALL of the numerous websites you reference come directly from Boston University. Have you ever heard of the Common Data Set? For the class of 2014, the average SAT score, based on the reported middle 50%, was 1910. I have absolutely no doubt that the average SAT score reported by BU for the class of 2015 is indeed 1996, given that they accepted approximately 10% fewer students than in previous years. There were 41,734 applicants for the class of 2015, which means somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 less students were accepted than in previous years. It is therefore not unreasonable that the average SAT score would rise from 1910 to 1993, given that the average SAT score reported for all applicants for the class of 2015 was 1896.</p>
<p>I agree that GPA is a pretty useless statistic, given the variability of
methods used to determine GPA by different schools. Class rank, on
the other hand, is a pretty good measure of how well a student did in
relationship to his or her peers, in his or her specific environment.<br>
Obviously, schools are not all created equally and not every top ranked
student has the same opportunity for course rigor and quality. But
class rank is a very good indicator of how well a student does within the
context of their environment. For the class of 2014, 88% were ranked
in the top 25% and 57% were in the top 10%. With the stats of the
average accepted and enrolled student for the class of 2015 rising
significantly, an average class rank of top 9% is not inconceivable.</p>
<p>For those of you truly interested in BU, I suggest you take a look at the acceptance threads for the class of 2015 on this board. Quite a few students with excellent stats posted who were either deferred or denied. The competition will only be stronger for the class of 2016. Best of luck to all of you!</p>
<p>The higher SAT score some of you are using is the average SAT for ACCEPTED students. The average SAT score for ENROLLED students is much closer (a little under) 1300 flat. Not everyone that gets accepted to bu goes to bu. In addition some schools put the accepted scores in press releases so that they attract better students. US News does a pretty good job at reporting their actual SAT scores. Hope that helps. bu also has a sub-20% yield rate (less than 1 in 5 students that get in go), no chance is the SAT score jumping 80 points in one year.</p>
<p>Yes, there is a big difference between accepted and matriculated.</p>