Chance me please

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<p>Hello, I am looking to go to Boston College in the Fall of 2012. Please be so kind as to rate my chances of being admitted into the Carroll School of Management. I am currently a senior in high school, and I’m planning to major in Finance/Accounting/Business. Here are my credentials:</p>

<p>Scores/Grades:</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.5 out of 5
Class rank: Top ~10-15% (there are ~360 or so students in my grade). My school does not provide students with actual class ranks, so this is only an estimate.</p>

<p>Freshman Year classes: Accelerated English, Accelerated Algebra II, Accelerated World History, Honors Biology, Honors Mandarin I, and other irrelevant electives. At my school, the “Accelerated” level is the highest level besides AP. “Honors” level classes are one level below “Accelerated”.</p>

<p>Sophomore Year classes: Accelerated English, Accelerated Geometry, Accelerated World/American History, Honors Physics, Honors Mandarin II, and other irrelevant electives.</p>

<p>Junior Year classes: Accelerated English, Accelerated AB Pre-Calculus, AP U.S. History, Accelerated Chemistry, Accelerated Mandarin III, and other irrelevant electives.</p>

<p>Senior Year classes: Accelerated English, AP BC Calculus, AP U.S. Government and Politics, AP Statistics, Accelerated Mandarin IV, and other irrelevant electives.</p>

<p>AP Tests: AP U.S. History - 5
AP BC Calculus - not yet taken
AP U.S. Government and Politics - not yet taken
AP Statistics - not yet taken</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Test: Math - 800 Reading - 690 Writing - 740
SAT Subject Tests: Math II - 800 U.S. History - 770 Chinese with Listening - 740</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities/Clubs:</p>

<p>Mandarin Club (4 years): Member
Speech and Debate (1 year): Member, won 3rd place in Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Chinese National Honors Society (1 year): Member/tutor
Writing Center (1 year): This is a tutor center for people who need help with writing. Member/tutor
Investment Club (1 year): Member/secretary
Piano (5 years): 5 years District Winner (in National Piano-Playing Auditions), ranked as Advanced-C level by American College of Musicians</p>

<p>Other factors:</p>

<p>I was born in China and came to the United States in 2nd grade. I live in Massachusetts (not too far from Boston College in fact). I am fluent in Mandarin in terms of speaking and listening, but less so in writing. I am generally accepting of people because I value the perspective that others can add to my life.</p>

<p>Thank you so much for reading over this. If there is anything I forgot, please say so and I will provide it. Thanks again!</p>

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<p>Haha, so I remembered right as posted this. The GPA listed above does not factor in my first term senior year grades, which are:</p>

<p>Accelerated English - A-
AP Statistics - A
AP U.S. Government and Politics - A-
Accelerated Mandarin IV - A
AP BC Calculus - A</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>yea… youre definitely in.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your input.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Dear KaySheng : Your application will be coming from the most heavily represented state at Boston College - Massachusetts. Therefore, a class rank outside of the Top 10% will be heavily challenged by your regional cohorts. Your SAT I scores are certainly strong and while removing all aspects of language (Chinese courses) seems to weaken your application, the remaining elements are sufficiently strong that you should pass the curriculum strength tests.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, your profile does not scream “school spirit” to the reader and how you augment the college’s freshman class. There is no sports involvement, no school music ensembles (despite piano), and limited honor societies (strange given the class rank) listed in your profile. Volunteerism is non-existant in the profile and leadership positions are not present.</p>

<p>Yours is an application that paints a very academically oriented student who studies hard and does well - but come the weekend, does not really get involved with anything school related. Perhaps we are over-scrutinizing your details, but we are not seeing a well-rounded individual emerge in this brief snippet. We hope that the social gap was closed by identifying how you will or can add to the Boston College campus fabric. For some reason, this profile does not seem aligned with Boston College on a very deep level.</p>

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<p>Your app is worth applying, but like @scottj said, your application is missing a few factors that could harm your chance of acceptance.</p>

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<p>Thank you both for your input. It’s true that I am not particularly involved in school activities during the weekend. But I feel like that is because I work hard during the week, and I want to relax more in the weekend. Also, the things that I do participate in are high school football/soccer games (watching, not playing), but I can’t really talk about that on my application. The only other honor society at my school is the NHS, which is much more selective than NHS at other schools (from what many of my teachers tell me). Applicants have to fulfill 150 hours of community service (which I have), and have a near 4.9-5.0 GPA.</p>

<p>Yes, I do regret not having participated in more sports/school activities, but hopefully my academics will make up for that. Thanks again</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>While BC certainly does value athletics a great deal, your stellar scores and grades should make an acceptance no problem for you. At least in my opinion. Good luck!</p>