Chances at BC?

<p>i’m in love with boston, and boston college really seems like a fit with its strong english dept. and great accomodations.</p>

<p>18 y/o white male
Private School in S. Indiana</p>

<p>3.8 GPA
Top 20% Class Rank</p>

<p>SAT:
Critical Reading: 700
Math: 650
Writing: 800
(Cumulative 2150)
SAT II:
will take in october (Eng. Lit and Math IC (can opt to IIC if i feel like it)
projected: English Lit: 740 Math: 720</p>

<p>Although I take the toughest schedule possible, my school only offers AP English, I scored a 4 on the test.</p>

<p>ECs</p>

<p>Wrestling-3 years-Team State Placer
Football - 4 years
Student Gov. - Attorney, District Rep, Secretary
Academic Super Bowl-4 (3 years team captain)
PEERS Project-(2 years team captain)
National Honor Society
Student body government - Attorney, District Rep, Class Secretary
High Honor Roll each year
Several published poems/essays
Founder of the Fine Arts Club
probably some minor stuff i’m leaving out</p>

<p>criticism and suggestions are very welcome.</p>

<p>thanks in advance</p>

<p>Your ECs look pretty good but obviously, for any high calibre schools, SATs and GPAs take precedence not to mention most candidates tend to have decorative array of ECs.<br>
Unless your high school is ultra competitive (and nothing much you can do now), but your GPA is in the lower range compared to 75% of BC students who graduated in top 10% of their class. And your SATs are by no means low scores, but I would recommend re-taking them and try to increase your verbal and math scores but it's really your decision if you want to focus on SAT I or SAT II. Not to dishearten you but there is a rumor (which in my opinion is pretty accurate) about BC weighing writing section lower than the verbal and math sections. Speaking from person who was accepted by BC last year, I had a dismally low 620 in writing but SAT I combined mid 1400s so that's just my personal 2 cents.
Also in my opinion, my school did offer more APs than you did, but I opted to self-study for some courses which were not offered by my school, got good grades back and I think that reflected pretty well by the BC admission board. BC has a very nice AP policy and you may even accelerate a year if you bag enuogh AP credits, so that may as well go into your senior year considerations.
Hope it helps and best of luck to you.</p>