<p>Deferred and surprised.</p>
<p>35 ACT
4.0 UW, 4.52 W GPA
Captain of volleyball team, editor of newspaper, editor of yearbook, senior class vice president, president of national honor society, vice-president of DECA marketing association
National Merit Commended
5 5’s on AP’s
Great recs, essay won me a scholarship last year.
Over 200 hours of community service.</p>
<p>What did I do wrong?</p>
<p>I am surprised. This may be a situation where you want your GC to call admissions and see what other info they are looking for. Did one of your recs not go as you thought? Did your teachers say something in a recommendation that was perceived as negative. Is it possible that your essay was not specific enought to BC? I would go back to the common app website and download what you submitted and take it to some teachers and your GC and see if anything jumps out at them. I would be really open to feedback and ask people if there is some trait or thing about you that someone is not telling you. Good luck.</p>
<p>How was your course rigor? Your deferral shocks me, to say the least.</p>
<p>I could be completely off, but maybe this is a case of “yield protection”? Your deferral is very shocking to me! If BC is your top choice maybe make that very clear to the school, and that will put you in a very good place for an RD acceptance!</p>
<p>Are you related to anyone? Legacy? Contacts? Do you have friends in admission? Does your family donate money to the athletic program?</p>
<p>IvanKaramozov: I have taken 9 AP’s and 6 honors courses. Taken 3 additional math classes, having doubled up in math every year since sophomore year.</p>
<p>I may have to call BC admissions. After looking over my commonapp nothing stands out as a mistype or error. Maybe they saw something that I didn’t.</p>
<p>I vote yield protection. Your profile is Ivy-type. Did you apply to any?</p>
<p>BC doesn’t do yield protection. They offer full scholarships to their top applicants. Something bad happened. Maybe not sending SAT/SATIIs rubbed them the wrong way, you fail to post your % rank and if you’re not t10% not many top colleges will want you, your essay was written as a junior while everybody else wrote it as a senior (a year more of development), you could have come off as a little bit arrogant for a Jesuit college (as an admitted senior into two Jesuit schools, I’d vote on that one), or myriad other reasons.
Stop looking for an ego boost and start working on your RD apps so your results are better.
(I don’t mean for this to be mean. Sorry if it comes off that way. Based on what you posted you seem like BC character, but again 30 words don’t describe a whole person)</p>
<p>Dear tebowforheisman : While I am not a huge subscriber to the “yield protection theory”, yours is one application that could lead to that view. Only 1,000 students nationally score a 35 ACT composite score. (For those interested, only several hundred score a perfect 36 and approximately 6,000 students nationally score a 34.) </p>
<p>What were your class rank and average? Were you a top 10% candidate?</p>
<p>Your recommendations and essays could have been a potential hole as that material is not present. Were there structural or grammar errors? Was the content real, insightful, personal, or contrived? Only you can spend some time in introspection on those questions.</p>
<p>Also, there could have been some element of your application that was left incomplete for some reason - you will want to check that information.</p>
<p>Now, if Boston College is REALLY your one and only school of interest, you should take your case to your school principal and ask him/her to personally intervene by calling BC admissions as a means of protecting your school’s reputation and vouching for your overall academic quality.</p>
<p>Something did not interest the BC readers during your EA phase - you absolutely need to understand their thinking as it might impact your application into other institutions.</p>
<p>To DonaldDraper:
I do not mean to sound arrogant. I was merely asking what I can/should improve to my other applications before they are evaluated, or if anyone could think of an outstanding reason as to why I was not admitted. Not for an ego boost, but as need-to-know information. I thank you for your input, though.</p>
<p>By the way, my class rank is 3/486. So top 1%.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone for the input.</p>
<p>tebowforheisman,</p>
<p>Your deferral is very surprising.</p>
<p>I really wouldn’t expect this from BC, especially with all of the service you’ve done. But sometimes, applicants can come off as plain boring. I don’t know enough about you and do not want to make assumptions, but perhaps your profile was too generic for the EA round.</p>
<p>Example: Ivies and related schools often reject (and defer) valedictorians and 2400/36 scorers.</p>
<p>But, ofcourse, BC isn’t an Ivy.</p>
<p>Sometimes, high numbers and typical ECs aren’t enough to get you in.</p>
<p>Regardless, I wish you the best of luck in the RD round.</p>
<p>Don’t overthink it. Have your GC call. Someone is always the one who’s file was reviewed at a time when the adcom was in a bad mood.</p>
<p>I was deferred too…</p>
<p>ACT 35
GPA 3.88 UW, 4.5 W
Full IB Diploma Candidate
Sat II Math and Physics - 800
Top 5%</p>
<p>Good ECs.</p>
<p>Really surprised…</p>
<p>sanny1 I’m surprised you were deferred as well.</p>
<p>where are you from?</p>
<p>can you resubmit your app after a deferral to bc? Like what if you wanna update it, and revamp your essay and stuff?</p>
<p>don’t worry about being Deferred. 5 girls from my daughters school are attending BC this year and everyone of them was deferred. They all had 4.0 or above, tons of AP and Extra curricular, great SAT scores, they spent summers doing community service, they had leads in plays and played an instrument, spend time in Europe… etc etc… and they got in regular admission.</p>
<p>tebowforheisman: I am from New Jersey</p>