Chances please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
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<p>My info:
Junior White Male in small Catholic school in Pennsylvania, both parents went to college</p>

<p>GPA: 93.5 unweighted average
Rank: 7/150
Difficulty: My junior and senior schedules were literally the hardest ever taken at my school
SAT Math: 790
Crit. Reading: 750
Writing: 700, 6(!) essay
SAT Subject Tests: Chem-770 (hoping this will somewhat make up for my chemistry grades, which have been my worst the past two years)
U.S. History-800
Math pending
AP’s: U.S. history-5, Calc, Stats, U.S. Gov, Microecon, English, Spanish pending
National Merit Semifinalist</p>

<p>Not a well known high school, pretty much everyone goes to small local colleges</p>

<p>EC’s: Football four years
Baseball four years (not getting recruited for anything)
Concert Band 4 years, section leader 3 years
Church youth group 3 years
National Honors Society senior year
Peer Ministry senior year
Student Council freshmen year
Hospital volunteer service
over 100 hours of general service
I have a job at a golf course
I also golf, ski, and play guitar and piano outside of school, put it in the additional info section?</p>

<p>I probably will be applying Early Action</p>

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<p>Dear steveb120 : Your GPA, class rank, board scores, academic rigor, subject tests, and advanced placement curriculum all seem to be in place. Our only question is how did you wind up with a 6 on the essay? Somehow, that is the only piece of the jigsaw puzzle that does not fit! Two sport athletic participation, music, honor society, and some community involvement are all present. On this last point, you might want to underscore how your efforts have made a difference overall to the community.</p>

<p>Yours is an extremely compelling application and we would not be surprised to see you as part of the Class of 2014. Good luck in your application process.</p>

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<p>Thanks scottj. I’m still at a loss about the essay too…I brought a copy to my school’s AP English teacher for her to her look at, and she said it was a very well-written essay…I honestly think it might be because they couldn’t read my horrible handwriting haha.</p>

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<p>^ Can I read your essay so I can understand more of how to improve mine while learning from yours?</p>

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<p>yeah i’ll pm you, good luck with the reading part though haha</p>