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

<p>I’m considering applying to BU this fall, and was wondering what my chances would be.</p>

<p>-Caucasian male, low income family, attending competitive suburban school in MA</p>

<p>GPA: 3.2 (will explain below)
-All honors/APs</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
Humanities Honors
AP Chemistry
Psychology Honors (school doesn’t offer AP)
Calculus AB
Forensic Science
Gender Studies Honors
Assembly Language Programming Honors</p>

<p>ACT: 28, with a 9/12 on the essay (will retake in fall, I might do better 'cause I took it without any studying the first time)</p>

<p>Essays: I’m going to work hard on them, probably good</p>

<p>Rec’s: Excellent…AP Physics teacher/Civilization teacher</p>

<p>EC’s/Work Experience:
-TJ Maxx Customer Service Coordinator/Frontline Supervisor (about 30 hrs/week during school) (Employee of the Quarter…w00t?)
-Boy Scouts of America (Life Scout - the rank under Eagle) (about 100 hrs of community service - undocumented)
-Mass. General Hospital Radiation Oncology Volunteer (about 50 hrs documented) (this summer)
-Museum of Science Boston Discovery Center/Museum Store Volunteer (about 850 hrs documented, hoping to reach 1000 by the time I apply)
-MOS SciCORE Exhibit Hall Interpretation Summer Internship (summer going into 11th grade)
-MOS Courses, Assistant Teacher Summer Internship (this summer)
-Math Leage (top freshman/sophomore scorer)
-Chess Club (probably not important)
-Rotary Youth Leadership Awards - 2005
-National History Day Competitor (Group Documentary) - went to the regional competition)</p>

<p>-In addition to this, both my mother and father attended BU…my father went to CGS and my mother to the CAS (however, I’m not too interested in CGS).</p>

<p>Here’s the problem…my grades junior year were significantly lower than previous years (I had mostly A’s and B’s during freshman/sophomore year in all honors) because of some severe clinical depression I was dealing with during junior year, combined with the fact I was working 30 hrs/week and taking the hardest curriculum possible. My guidance counselor told me she would write a long note about it with the school record (we’re pretty close because I’ve been seeing her weekly since freshman year) and explain everything that happened, and I thought I might be able to write about it in one of BU’s essays as well. I’m planning on working extremely hard first quarter and will hopefully pull up my grades significantly.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot :o</p>

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<p>Explain your GPA and do really well the first semester of senior year and I think you're in.</p>

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<p>What's wrong with CGS?</p>

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<p>I agree with jPoD: what's wrong with CGS? If you go there, you have the opportunity to move into another college at BU. Are there any other major, quality universities which do that? Would it be better to go to a worse school?</p>

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<p>"Are there any other major, quality universities which do that?"</p>

<p>Actually, I believe that NYU has a similar program.</p>

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<p>Correct. Had a brain freeze. At NYU, it's General Studies Program. There, if you maintain a 3.0 you automatically move into the program to which you originally applied.</p>

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<p>do well next year and you'll probably be accepted.</p>