Chance me pls

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
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<p>school does not rank
superscored ACT would be 31
97 cumalitive GPA
Senior year alone so far 103 gpa
sport played all 4 years - captain
travel sport played as well (NO Division1-not good enough)
hundreds of hours of volunteer work
some club involvement
have 2 jobs
2 letters of recommendation (1 good, 1 alright)
common app essay was pretty good
supplements (rushed so average)
first generation college student
asian
poor. income=around 25k for a 5 person family
around 20 people from my school are applying this year</p>

<p>please tell me honestly</p>

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<p>please chance me! top choice school!</p>

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<p>Dear catloverforever : There are numerous errors here that first need to be corrected. While you might not know your individual rank, your High School will most definitely provide Boston College with the grading deciles from your graduating class. Hence, an admissions couselor will most assuredly know whether you are in the Top 10% or not for your High School class. Additionally, the lack of curriculum detail (AP/IB vs. Honors) makes the assessment more difficult at this time.</p>

<p>Second, I am immediately concerned about the quality of your essay given the use of word “cumalitive” as opposed to “cumulative”. Small point in the grand scheme of this profile however an error that stood out to me as a reader.</p>

<p>Third, the tense associated with the word “sport” seems improper as one normal refers to “sports” being played all four years. This phrasing was awkward which again might indicate other sentence construction issues in your essays.</p>

<p>Fourth, “some club involvement” tells us absolutely nothing about your interests, leadership skills, or engagement. More specifically, do you think there is a single application among Boston College’s 30,000+ applications that is submitted without “some club involvement”? That phrase literally adds nothing to this profile.</p>

<p>Fifth, having a single “OK” recommendation is not good enough when you are going against 30,000 applications where if even 10% had two great recommendations, Boston College could fill their admission pool from that group alone. Remember it is a competition and you are giving a reader the opportunity to say “No, thank you”.</p>

<p>Sixth, as we have said often here on College Confidential, the essays are a critical component in answering the “Why BC?” question for admissions and expressly leading the reader to your value as an admitted freshman. Your profile unfortunately does not take us with you on that journey.</p>

<p>In closing, our review here is longer than the profile that you have provided. Based on what we see, there are simply too many gaps and problems for us to render a reasonable decision - or even critique - on your chances although numerous concerns have been raised.</p>

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<p>Dear catloverforever : Having done a bit more research, the following three quotes were provided by you in other threads.</p>

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Here, you said in your repost that Boston College was your top choice school.</p>

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This implies you are from New York which is the second most heavily represented state at Boston College (after Massachusetts) meaning that the competitive pressure will be increased for you.</p>

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Be very careful thinking that a $50,000 per year bill is within reach given the financial disclosures that you made earlier.</p>

<p>In closing, there seems to be double-talk in triplicate in some of your posts. Perhaps it is a context issue or an issue with the veracity of your credentials, but my honest suggestion would be for you to reconsider a Boston College option. With all sincerity, you do not appear to be a fit for the Class of 2017.</p>