Chance me!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
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Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 760 (Math), 750 (Critical Reading), 690 (Writing) *sending this
ACT: 33 (composite)
SAT II: 710 (Biology), 700 (math level 1), 700 (US history), taking math 2 in october
Weighted GPA: 98.68 (school doesn’t do it on a 4.0 scale)
Unweighted GPA: 92.74
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10% (school only ranks by decile)
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4), Stat (3), and Lang/Composition (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Econ, AP Government and Politics, AP French, AP Calc AB
Awards: lots of awards from Academic Decathlon (regions and state level), some all-league and all-county for tennis, academic awards from my school

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Future Business Leaders of America (VP junior year, lost run for President), Girls Learn International (Treasurer junior year, Pres. senior year), Interact Club (Treasurer senior year), Academic Decathlon (regular competitor junior/senior year, always make it to state competition), Band (Librarian senior year, one of the best in the state), French Honor Society (Secretary junior year, President senior year), varsity Tennis, National Honor Society
Job/Work Experience: camp counselor, desk/gate/food service at tennis club over the summer
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at town’s public library, active in community service club for all of high school (minimum volunteer hour requirement to stay in club)
Summer Activities: working, volunteering at town’s public library, 1 week summer program for economics at Cornell
Essays: still working on them, but should be great
Teacher Recommendation: one should be exceptional, the other very good
Counselor Rec: my counselor knows I take school very seriously, but other than that he doesn’t know me that well

Other:
Applying for Financial Aid?: probably, but not expecting a lot
Intended Major: Economics
State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey
School Type: average-sized public school (~220 in my grade)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $150,000+
Hooks: I was born in Hong Kong?

Reflection
Strengths: SAT score out of 1600, always taken hardest classes possible
Weaknesses: I am a well-off white girl from New Jersey, my writing score, my subject test scores

I just took this template off another post so I wouldn’t forget anything!
I would like to note that I’ve taken all honors/AP classes for all of high school, which is why my unweighted GPA is so low.
I love Boston College and would be ecstatic if I got in!

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Regarding your SAT subject scores:

Quote: SAT II Subject Tests are optional. If you would like to highlight a talent in a specific area, you are welcome to submit SAT Subject Tests for consideration with your application. Subject Tests, particularly in foreign languages and the sciences, may be used for placement during the first year. Unquote
http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/process/freshman/requirements.html

Best of luck to you!

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I hope you have a very good chance because your profile looks a lot like my son’s profile. I think of this as a match type of school for you-- not a safety and not a reach – but your stats fit well within BC’s admitted students parameters. You just can’t count on acceptance, even with your stats, when the admit rate is around is around 25%. Good luck

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Dear lizard27 : With $150,000+ in family annual income and a New Jersey residence, you can rest assured that unless you have sibblings attending college in parallel with you, your family will shoulder the entire annual Boston College fee. If you application is to be predicated on receiving financial aid, be sure to cast a wide net with other institutions similarly ranked. In short, your financial profile will not attract need-based aid.

On the academic front, you are clearly missing advanced science which is one of the five core areas that Boston College seeks in their accepted applicants.

I would be interested in understanding why you think your essays would be “great”. Explain why you make Boston College a better environment over all other potential applicants. (Common theme in my chance-me reviews.)

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Your profile is, in a lot of ways, almost exactly the same as mine was before I was accepted (into CSOM). Your weighted GPA is within .05 of mine on the 100 scale. Your SAT is 10 higher on a 2400 scale. Our ACT is the same, despite the fact idk your sub scores. And I also took 3 SAT II’s, averaging around the same as well (650, 750, 770 for me) if I remember correctly. I also had a spot in FBLA, took 3 AP’s by junior year, and took 5 more senior year. I was also a white applicant from the northeast and, from what I can tell, the breadth of our extra curriculars, while different, would probably be equally strong in the eyes of an admissions officer (I’d assume). If you care to compare any further, check my past chance me’s from before I got in. You can find them in my post history.

With that said, you have a great chance. I know we’re not exactly the same person or anything, and essays are obviously a factor, but you should have a good shot. I was given 4 years of housing, which is apparently offered to the top 10/15% of the class, after all the nurses, athletes, handicapped students, etc are provided housing. The reason I bring that up is, if our applications are viewed as similarly as I think they would be, there’s no reason to think that you wouldn’t be at least accepted or even given the 4 year housing option.

You say you applied for Econ. That can mean either CAS Econ (BA) or CSOM Econ (BS). I applied CSOM Econ and supposedly CSOM admissions criteria are a bit more stringent, so you definitely have a good chance both ways, but maybe a bit better if you did CAS.

Hope this helped. PM me if you have any questions