<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.50
GPA - Weighted: 4.88
Class Rank: 14th, top 5%
Class Size: 264</p>
<p>Spring:
SAT I Math: 680
SAT I Critical Reading: 600
SAT I Writing: 750
SAT II Italian: 630</p>
<p>Just sat today for fall SATs, hoping for 20-50 pt boosts in each. Taking 2 SAT math subject tests next month (so EA app isn’t possible, but unlikely that she’d be strong enough candidate to be accepted EA anyway)</p>
<p>All-honors or AP courses all 4 yrs of HS (only 2 AP courses in total, and both this year)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: student senate, executive committee, Italian club
Sports: 4 years each of tennis (captain, 2 varsity, 2 JV) and outdoor track (3 JV, 1 varsity)
Volunteer/Service Work: altar server
Honors and Awards: national honor society officer, italian national honor society, PC book award</p>
<p>Dear Sandman62 : Regarding the averages listed, it is very strange to see a 3.50 unweighted average with a 4.88 weighted score when only two AP course have been taken. Even with a 10% addition to a base average, your daughter would have come to a 3.85; a 20% addition would have been a 4.20. So there is something not square in these numbers. Normally, a 3.50 average is not a top 5% (or 10% score) in a graduating class, particularly sized as 264 student count suggests. As a pedantic point, your daughter is not in the top 5% strictly speaking, but top 10% which is fine for our purposes.</p>
<p>As you probably already know, the critical reading score on the SAT I is comfortably in the bottom quartile of accepted students while the SAT I math score is in the midpoint range. The writing score is solid although the two way SAT I score of 1280 is weak. Your note does not explain why your daughter would expect a 20-50 point boost in any individual section, but your daughter will need another 80-100 points in total to create any comfort level.</p>
<p>That all said, two AP courses is a realtively weak number in comparison to those in the application pool who will have ten or more, but this will be related to your high school curriculum. If your school is rich in AP offerings and your daughter’s course selection was a cut below the AP curriculum, that will tilt the tables seriously against her application. Right now, the profile is missing any history or science information, two major components in the Boston College core courses.</p>
<p>Sports and some extra curriculars are present. Music and fine arts are missing. Volunteerism, community engagement, or a work history could use some description here.</p>
<p>Right now, this is not the type of application that would receive attention in the early admission phase. (See the applicants stats link at the top of this page for more details on the Class of 2013 applicant pool.)</p>
<p>Even in the regular decision pool, this application needs some work to compete with the applicant cohort group. Overall, this feels like a 25% chance of admission in the regular decision pool giving the benefit of the doubt on the averages that we questioned earlier.</p>
<p>Our suggestion is to find some softer opportunities and treat Boston College as a stretch school based on the data presented.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response Scott. Are you a college counselor?</p>
<p>I realize that “strictly speaking” she’s in the top 5.3% of her class. </p>
<p>Her weighted GPA is much higher than her regular because, tho she hasn’t taken a lot of AP courses, she has taken ALL HONORS classes since 9th grade. Meanwhile, last year’s valedictorian had a much easier near-even mix of honors and non-honors - playing the game, so to speak. Our D has stayed the course w/ the harder honors classes.</p>
<p>The only reason we’d expect a 20-50 pt boost would be because she’s had 6 more months since the last test, and it seems that most kids we talk to achieve better scores on subsequent tries.</p>
<p>She will also apply to Stonehill, Quinnipiac, Roger Williams and URI - all of which I would expect her to be accepted into rather easily. </p>
<p>Since the College of Arts & Sciences tries to maintain a historical 50:50 split between the genders, I’m guessing it is more difficult for female apps (since urban campuses tend to receive a lot more female applications). (No real facts – just supposition – since BC doesn’t publish its common data set.)</p>