<p>Dear Marker13 : In your senior year, you just have to have a full course load in the five major areas : mathematics, science, English, social studies, language. You should be striving to take the most rigorous course load possible.</p>
<p>An 1850 three-way SAT score (bottom quartile), a weaker senior year English class, and no senior year History/Economics spell doom at a university like Boston College with a strong liberal arts core at the heart of the curriculum. </p>
<p>Specifically, you should absolutely be taking Honors English at a minimum and probably should have been on an AP English track in order to improve your chances for success. Just as a reference point, a “C” in Honors English could well be worse than that at Boston College - just food for thought when thinking about the workload.</p>
<p>Now is not the time to kickback to bolster your GPA as that is not where your application’s challenges will be. Either you are up for the challenge or you are looking to slide : quite frankly, your questions are reading like the latter and if we can pick up on that attitude in a College Confidential posting, you can be assured that the admissions staff will make the same inferences.</p>