<p>I was deferred.</p>
<p>SATS R 670 M 670 W 670
ACT 28
Jesuit High School
3.6 gpa
Very good Ec and recomendations
father went to bc</p>
<p>would love to hear what your stats are and how are you doing???
hang in there</p>
<p>man, legacy didnt get you in? BC is funny like that.</p>
<p>SAT: M 800 R 730 W 770
SATII Biology 730 World History 720 Math IIC 800
Top Public HS (i.e. sends around 10% to Ivies)
3.7 UW GPA (92%)
Excellent EC's (and I'm not just saying that)
Very good teacher recommendations (seriously). Unknown counselor rec.</p>
<p>AP Physics B (5)
AP US History (5)</p>
<p>Currently Taking:
AP BC Calculus
AP Physics C
AP Economics
AP Government
AP English
College Spanish (whatever "college" means)</p>
<p>I am shocked I was deferred. It's funny because I was accepted at the University of Chicago EA. Chicago, no offense, is leaps and bounds ahead of BC. I'm curious as to why BC deferred me...</p>
<p>jamesn</p>
<p>that is extremely odd... can you think of any reason beyond your scores and such that they would defer you.... im shocked as well</p>
<p>Uh oh.. I'm a legacy as well....</p>
<p>but no response yet.</p>
<p>SAT: 2320 (740 verbal, 780 math, 800 writing)
SAT IIs: 800 Chem, 800 Math II
APs: Comp Sci AB (4), US History (4), Chem (5), Calc BC (5) + taking Lang, Gov, Stat this year
GPA: 3.58 W
School: Competitive, rigorous, public magnet school, no class rankings
ECs: Golf (1 year JV, 2 years varsity (co-captain senior year), outside tournaments), elementary school tutoring (4 years), volunteering for my golf teacher's junior golf camp (3 years), tutoring, a couple other jobs</p>
<p>i feel bad for u guys i only had a 1360 and got in haha</p>
<p>maybe a little to early for that jcg</p>
<p>yea jcg, not the time for that now or ever...</p>
<p>and btw, college admissions aren't based on SAT scores alone. if they were, decisions could be made in a day by a computer ;-) so pointing out that you got in with your score and others with higher scores didn't doesn't mean much</p>
<p>^Yeah, really.</p>
<p>I'm really surprised about some of the people who posted here...do you think maybe Tufts Syndrome came into play here?</p>
<p>idk esgee but it almost seems that.</p>
<p>BC is crazy for deferring kids with stats like that!!</p>
<p>wow @ james. yeah they are really fickle. i was accepted as a transfer but when i talked to a counselor they used the word "lucky." i wonder if they really do see which paper lands the farthest for good students :P</p>
<p>SAT: M 750 R 710 W 740 (1460/2200)
SATII Literature 740 U.S. History 650 Math IIC 740 Korean w/Listening 790
3.79 UW GPA 4.02 W GPA
Ranked 27/239
Honorable Mention at AFCEA National Science Fair, 2nd Place at Virginia State Science Fair, All-Virginia Orchestra 2nd Chair, National Merit Semi-Finalist, Korean School Assistant Teacher for 4 years
Very good teacher recommendations, one of them he was my favorite teacher and we had a really good relationship. He's still my teacher this year for a different subject and he's been dying to hear if I got in. I'm telling him the bad news tomorrow... Don't know about counselor's, shes a bit sketchy.
I thought my essay was good. I wrote about a violin cultural exchange thing I did in Peru, where we played for orphanages. More specifically, I talked about a certain boy I interacted with and how that interaction touched and greatly morphed my perspective on the world around me as well as on human nature itself. Apparently it wasn't good enough though...?</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB (4)
AP US History (4)
AP Government (3)</p>
<p>Currently Taking:
I'm in IB, so I basically take one of the hardest possible workloads my school or any school has to offer.
AP Psychology
IB History of Americas HL
IB Math HL
IB Spanish SL
IB English A2 HL
IB Biology HL
IB Geography</p>
<p>Comments:
When I got my letter of deferral I was shocked in general. My friends who are my school's val and sal were deferred from Yale and Stanford respectively earlier this week, but I never thought that the same thing would happen with me and BC. I'm still confused as to where my application was weak. Was it my GPA and rank? Doesn't BC take into account the rigor of the coursework? Do they even know what IB is, lol? I'm just really disappointed.</p>
<p>My S has similar stats (33ACT, 2APs w/5s, one with a 4, taking all APs this year, top 25% of very competitive CT public high school, loads of focused ECs). He has always taken the most rigorous courseload possible. We're not surprised though because we know how hard it is to be accepted from our area of CT. Where are you all from? Usually only the top 10% or so from our school are accepted at BC.</p>
<p>jcrew and mdshin2001... theres no way you guys got deferred..</p>
<p>On the one hand, congratulations on your acceptance; on the other, no need to be unkind</p>
<p>*Statistics: *[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1310/2000 (CR: 660, MATH: 650, WRITING: 690)
[</em>] SAT II: Math II: 710; Literature: 650; Biology M: 630... =/
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 11/288
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang(4), Biology (2)- Bio teacher stopped teaching when he got a new job halfway through the year...
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP BC Calc, AP Spanish, Physics Honors, Psych, Creative Writing, Band
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Southeast MA Regional Youth Leadership Award in Tobacco Prevention, National Spanish Exam Placer, U Rochester Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award (Social Justice)
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching Band, Peer Leadership (VP, 11. Pres, 12), SADD (VP, 12), Concert Band, Town Prevention Coalition (Only Steering Committee Youth), Book Club, NHS
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 6 month at part-time job through summer & school year
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: MSPCA Volunteer, Tutor, lots of other things through Peer Leadership
[<em>] Summer Activities: work, volunteering
[</em>] Essays: I think they were pretty good. I love writing.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: great I'm sure... one's my SADD advisor that I'm super close with & the other was my AP Lang teacher that gets along very well with me as well.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: really good probably
[<em>] Interview: nope
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): MA =/
[<em>] School Type: smaller public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): would be first generation college graduate[/ul]</p>
<p>Maybe if I had some better SAT scores?</p>
<p>Statistics:
SAT I (breakdown): 1400/2040 (CR: 710, MATH: 690, WRITING: 640)
SAT II: Lit: 710; Chem:680 Physics:680
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 25%
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lit(3), US(4), Physics(3), Chem(3)
Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lang, AP Calc, AP Bio, College Spanish, Ind. Study in Photography
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): All league honorable Mention (soccer), Nation Servant Leadership Award.
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Local Student run comm.service group (2 chairmanships). NHS, 2 Varsity Sports, Drama Club, Young Life. Medical/Missions trip to Ghana, Africa
Job/Work Experience: 1.5 Years as a coffee shop barista.
Summer Activities: 2 Months of Volunteer work at Young Life Camps
Essays: Great, wrote about my experiences in Africa while doing a med clinic
Teacher Recommendation: didnt read them
Counselor Rec: didnt read it
Interview: nope
State (if domestic applicant): NY
School Type: smaller public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Over 1000 hours of community service...? Idk</p>
<p>I can think of one reason I may have been deferred. I had a conversation with an admissions officer about majoring in Economics in CSOM and International Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Essentially, I was quite critical (in a goodish way) of BC's lack of international focus and after analyzing requirements found that I would not be able to double major in those two subjects. I think the admissions officer might have taken that as an "i'm not interested" as this conversation happened after I sent in my app.
Truth be told, I wasn't too interested. BC is a great school to have been accepted to, nonetheless. I am still confused, but I have one explanation.</p>
<p>Boston College has been known for deferring/rejecting those who are simply using them as a safety school.</p>