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Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston University
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<p>I am a Latino male from Florida, attend top school in state, for gifted etc.
my stats:</p>

<p>SAT: M 720 CR 670 W 660
ACT: 30
SAT II: will take in october</p>

<p>school does not rank, but probably in top quarter
GPA: 3.5 uw 4.2 wt
all honors courses except for 7 AP courses: AP US Hist, AP World Hist, AP Enviro Sci, AP Stat, AP Gov, AP Macroeconomics, AP English Lang</p>

<p>EC: crew for 4 years, senior year Captain, Rookie of the Year Freshman year; highly competive recruiting stats (princeton recruit); close to 20 hours a week of involvement in crew
Comm Service: 180 hours, teaching kids to row
Summers: crew camps, volunteer work at crew</p>

<p>I am visiting later this summer, and BU is currently in my top 3 so interest is definitely extremely high! I don’t have much extra stuff other than crew because its year-round, through all of school and summer… so im hoping that is understood!</p>

<p>Thanks a mil for your input!</p>

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<p>Unless you do something really off-the-wall like streak naked for a Senior Prank and get arrested, you're in, probably with merit money.</p>

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<p>Yeah if you were lookin for an ego boost you're not gettin one outta me..</p>

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<p>ego boost? hahaha.. Is BU really that easy to get into? I thought I might have to worry...</p>

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<p>how does early application affect your merit money? Are you more likely, or what?</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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<p>When my S applied early decision in 2004, the BU website said that ED candidates had priority consideration for merit aid. However now it says only that ED applicants have priority consideration for housing. So this must be a policy change. He did receive the University Scholarship (half tuition) with similar stats to yours. Especially because you are a URM, BU might be likely to offer merit aid, whether you apply ED or RD. Just my opinion.</p>