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Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston University
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>So I am going to apply to the college of engineering and prospective major ins biomedical engineering </p>

<p>My sister attended BU…not sure if it helps</p>

<p>Asian Male Resident of Westwood, MA
GPA: 3.18 UW, 5.18 W (out of 6.0) - school does not weight AP’s and honors differently
Rank: School doesnt rank
Competitive school (we send about 5 students to Ivy’s every year)
Class size: 220
Most rigorous course load

  • 9th grade - All honors classes
  • 10th grade - AP Chem and the rest honors
  • 11th grade - AP US History and AP Physics B and the rest honors
  • 12th grade - Taking AP Stat, AP Calc, AP Physics C, AP Lang and Comp, Honors Spanish, Honors Psychology</p>

<p>AP Chem - 4, AP US - 3, AP Physics B - 4</p>

<p>ACT: 33 (34 M, 34 S, 34 E, 31 R, 9 essay)
SAT: 2080 (750 M, 680 W (8 essay) , 650 CR)
SAT II Chem: 720
SAT II Math I: 720
SAT II Math II: 760
SAT II Physics: 640 (screwed this one up…)</p>

<p>EC/Volunteer:
-Internship for two summers at Harvard Medical School in the New Research Building (Summer of 11th,12th)- Did mostly computer stuff (installed servers, software, hardware, etc.) to help in research for the Humane Genome Project
-Began a branch of Akshaya Patra in Massachusetts (11th, 12th) - Akshaya Patra is an organization which gives free food to underprivileged kids in India
-National Honor Society (11th, 12th)
-Academic Decathlon (10th, 11th, 12th) - won award for speech in statewide competition
-Science Team (10th, 11th, 12th)
-Key Club (9th,10th,11th,12th) - Recently elected as Vice President
-Percussion (9th, 10th)
-Religious (Jain - props to anyone who’s heard of Jainism) Education (9th,10th,11th,12th)
-Created advertisements for nationwide Jain phonebook (summer - 9th)
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (9th) – Educational Studies Program - I went to MIT every Saturday for 10 weeks and took classes in Economics, Debate, and How to start a high tech business
-Selected for and attended Boys State (11th)
-Leadership Development Program (summer - 9th) - I helped organize games and take care of little kids
-Minuteman Press School (Summer of 12th) - I learned about printing and marketing (my parents started a printing business and Minuteman Press is a franchise, so we all went to this school for 2.5 weeks and learned about how to start the business, how to price jobs, how to print on a press, etc.)
-National Honor Society (11th, 12th)</p>

<p>Sports:
9th - Soccer, Ski Team, Outdoor Track
10th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track (letter)
11th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track
12th - XC (letter), Indoor Track, Outdoor Track</p>

<p>Awards:
Honorary Mention in Speech in State Competition for Academic Decathlon
Commended Student for National Merit Scholarship
AP Scholar</p>

<p>Recommendations:
I’m definitely going to get good ones from my GC, my math/computer science/engineering teacher, and my english teacher</p>

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<p>anyone????</p>

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<p>send in your ACT scores, and sat2's</p>

<p>id say you're in with scholarship money, the university scholarship (half)</p>

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<p>actually scratch that</p>

<p>dont send in SAT2s, cuz they'll see your SAT scores too, your math is great, but reading is slightly weak compared to the 680 avg score</p>

<p>so just your ACT, and write about all that good extra-curricular stuff you've done</p>

<p>good luck buddy</p>

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<p>thanks for the reply</p>

<p>anyone else have any opinions?</p>

<p>also, do you only get deferred to CGS if you apply to CAS? The reason I'm asking is because if i dont get into the college of engineering, i definetly don't want to go to CGS.</p>

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<p>I am fairly certain that you get deferred to CGS no matter what school you apply to, assuming you don't get into that school.</p>

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<p>i see....do you think i will be deferred to CGS?</p>

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<p>I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure that if you apply to ENG and don't get in, you'll be considered for the science and engineering program (SEP) that's in the Metropolitan College. It's a program you do for two years (with summer courses) and then you basically transfer into ENG for your junior year.</p>

<p>There's more information here:
Boston</a> University Metropolitan College Undergraduate Degrees: Undergraduate Bachelor of Science and Engineering Degree</p>

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<p>thanks for the info heather!</p>

<p>Do you guys think I will be deferred to CGS/SEP?</p>

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<p>Well, I'm a sophomore BME major and I'm going to say you probably won't have any problem getting into ENG. You have roughly the same SAT scores and higher ACT scores than I had plus you seem to have a good list of extracurriculars.</p>

<p>I wouldn't be too worried if I were you.</p>

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<p>Yea, but I'm concerned about my GPA, although it just went up to 3.27 UW, 3.77 W (they changed the weighted to out of 4.5 cause i think they realized how ridiculous it is to have it out of 6)</p>

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<p>bumpitybump</p>

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<p>anyone?????</p>

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<p>bump one more time</p>

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<p>you will be fine. your scores are right on target for most programs at BU.</p>

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<p>these people are ridiculous
i'm a freshman here at BU in SMG ...
i have alot of ENG friends o_O </p>

<p>my gpa was a 3.1ish? unweighted was a 3.8ish weighted.
2200-range SAT I's // 680-range SAT II's
supbar EC's -- tutoring, frisbee, drawing, the like </p>

<p>and i still got the dean's scholarship :P asian female from MA, btw</p>

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<p>woohoo i feel much better....btw how much is the dean's scholarship?</p>

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<p>its 10,000 a year...i have it</p>