<p>I’m currently a junior, know its still early but am eager to see my chances thus far.</p>
<p>Gender: male
Ethnicity: Asian
School: public
Rank: top 5-10%
GPA: a 91 unweighted </p>
<p>Classes:4 honors classes every year – plan to take two APs next year</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
4 Year Varsity hockey and lacrosse
honorable mention hockey (sophomore year)
2nd Team All League hockey (junior year)
Chosen for Travel 16AA All Star Team for my state (junior year)
Probable Captain position for senior year in both hockey and lacrosse
National Honor Society,
100 hours of tutoring elementary level children
volunteer assistant of jr development program for lacrosse
Staff member for 4 years of diabetes walk
several clubs within my school
chosen as a reporter for my school’s morning news </p>
<p>[plan to attend leadership or other helpful programs in the summer]</p>
<p>dude…your lacking key information, most notably SAT/ACT scores, location, detailed curriculum, and much more. maybe you should look at other chance threads and see what information they provide, or you should wait until you have enough information on yourself to post some real stats and receive some justified answers. just cause your eager to see your chances it doesnt mean that your ready to be chanced yet. sorry to be blunt but its true. your better off chancing yourself senior year when your actually in the situation rather than junior year when things still have time to change</p>
<p>I disagree that you should wait until Senior year to consider your chances because by then you will be applying. Junior year is definitely a good time to be looking into schools and determining if they are a match, reach, safety, etc. as you come up with a college list and plan your visits. You can start by “chancing yourself” in comparing your stats to the various college profiles to see where you fit in. </p>
<p>Right now you ARE missing some key information but I assume you took the PSAT which is a pretty good indicator of how you test. You can probably assume that your score will go up some on the SAT with solid prep work and testing experience but don’t count on it jumping all that dramatically.</p>
<p>Your GPA is a little low but it will be considered in the overall light of your school and you don’t provide that. You also don’t provide the rigor of your courses as compared to what is available to you at your school. </p>
<p>Your service is nice but you’ll have to make it relevant in your application. Why tutoring? Why diabetes? Lacrosse volunteer is clear enough.</p>
<p>Leadership is undetermined as of yet…make sure you get yourself elected captain of those teams. Not really sure how those “leadership” programs help an application. Definitely do something worthwhile over the summer but don’t count on buying your leadership with one of those programs!</p>
<p>No mention of awards or intended areas of study/BC school of interest.</p>
<p>Consider BC, research the programs of interest to you and visit. If you are still interested and want to apply, then make sure your application clearly presents those unique qualities about yourself that would be worth adding to the BC community. Your best bet for admission? Get yourself recruited for the hockey team. Good luck!</p>
<p>Dear bcaddict21 : Adding to the themes already presented, you have one line in this profile where you suggest that you will have two AP courses in your senior year. Note that the average successful BC applicant will have slightly more than five AP exams with many students completing ten or more. Now, in part this depends on the curriculum offered by your High School, but two AP exams is not by any means exceeding the mark seen on most BC applications.</p>
<p>Lastly, consider this. You have four profile lines discussing hockey, clearly a passion, yet have barely scratched the surface on your academic profile. A 91 average from most schools will NOT place in you in the Top 10% academically, so just take a second and validate that data with your guidance department. Get the SAT and ACT exams into your second half junior year plans.</p>
<p>You might also want to avail yourself of a resource like collegeboard.com to do some reasonable searches to establish a list of target schools that might interest you. Right now, there appears to be a need to expand your focus across more schools than just Boston College. Best wishes and good luck.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with that statement. Successful applicants have taken about 3 to 5 APs and rest of honors in High School and got accepted to BC. Trust me, I know someone with only 2 APs and 93 average w/ Honors got into Washington University in St Louis. BC is looking for a well-rounded student, not someone who studies 24/7 6 hours a day to reach 2200 or 5s on 10 AP exams.</p>
<p>Dear HopefulEagle86 : While we can certainly agree to disagree, your discussion point is about one individual and mine is based on data inside the University. Accept it, reject it, or mull it over … our data points are offered to provide guidance to the most posters possible as opposed to once off situations.</p>
<p>hey fyi i didnt mean to discourage the OP from asking for opinions junior year, i was just saying that he was missing some key information and that maybe he should wait until SR year because by then he will definitely have all the info and stats required for a good chance thread</p>