<p>Ive been deferred at Boston University and im wondering what i can do to help my chances and what chances do i actually have?</p>
<p>SAT 760 Math 630 Verbal
SATIIs 750 Writing
750 Math 2C
690 Chemistry
600 US Hist</p>
<p>highly competitive private school in New Jersey that doesnt rank
GPA 83.5/100</p>
<p>Sr year: AP Law/Gov
AP CALC AB
AP COMP SCI A
Modern Drama (AP ENGLISH DIDNT FIT WITH SCHEDULE)
PHYSICS</p>
<p>2 APs, 2 honors last year and had 7 serious courses overall</p>
<p>Extracurricular:</p>
<p>120+ hrs volunteering at hospital
cocaptain of wrestling team
baseball team
sports editor of school newspaper
Near completion of EAGLE SCOUT AWARD= just waiting on paperwork</p>
<p>My freshman and sophomore grades were consistant low Bs and one C+ each year…
Junior year grades imporved and Sr year GPA is about 3 pts higher than career</p>
<p>essay assume average/above average
recommendations by 2 qualified teachers plus one from hospital I volunteer at.</p>
<p>My letter of deferal suggested sending sr year grades, i presume its to see if my junior year grades were an anomyly or if i actually did mature after sophomore year. I think senior grades will help me but What can I do to help my chances besides sending a letter to admissions office?</p>
<p>Do I have a shot or is gaining admission after being deferred near impossible?</p>
<p>I am surprised by your deferral. You mentioned that BU suggested you send in your senior year grades. My school was contacted for my grades without my knowledge. Do you think your counseler might not have sent them?</p>
<p>The only other possibility in my mind is that they found your GPA to be too low. I think it's clear that you're working on getting it up and that you're in more difficult courses, but BU might have a cutoff for Early Decision. Early decision is always more selective. You have a good shot at regular admissions. Go for it.</p>
<p>Nom, how is Early Decision more selective? I'm curious why you think this. Do ED applicants have higher stats which makes it naturally more selective? The ED acceptance rate is about the same as the RD rate.</p>
<p>Your stats are great for BU other than your GPA; that is the reason you got deferred. If your senior year grades have improved definitely send them, along with a letter explaining any grade inconsistencies. Good luck!</p>
<p>I don't have time to fully defend my statement right now, but I'll briefly explain why I might be wrong.</p>
<p>BU is a safety for many students who don't get into more prestigious schools. For this reason, there might be a greater number of highly qualified applicants during regular decision. I overlooked this point when I made the blanket statement that "Early decision is always more selective."</p>
<p>What you said about the acceptance rates is insignificant. What matters is the quality of the pool of applicants. This is something we don't know about.</p>
<p>I'll explain myself tommorow. . .I'm really overloaded with work right now.</p>
<p>Nom, I wasn't asking you to "defend" anything. Just wanted you to explain your statement that ED is always more selective. I wasn't taking issue with it, just asking for elaboration.</p>
<p>im shocked you got deffered i have a lil below than you and i got in, however i do have a bro that goes there and a sis that graduated..what school did you apply to? i think youll get in RD, the chances for RD is 52% admittance rate and for ED its 46%...thats what admissions told me</p>
<p>but i only got a 1310 on my SAT AWESOME essays, a 3.3 GPA highly weighted only 2 Ap's this year tuns of recs i got straight c's frosh all a-'s one a one b+ soph and junior year and my first term i got c, a, a-, b+, b-</p>
<p>@jenny540: Huh? I count five periods, none of which end a sentence. I really do appreciate your input, but I don't know how much content I missed in translation.</p>
<p>Unrelated to the original poster and BU: The acceptance rate for a school could be 99% but that doesn't mean that a mediocre student has a 99% chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Hey, does putting down the other colleges you're applying to really not influence the decision, or is that just a blatant lie the admissions people want you to believe?</p>
<p>i think its a pseudo truth. they want to see that you are applying to similiar schools. when lafayette asked me what schools i included other schools i thought about applying to in their overlapping areas, figured it couldnt hurt.</p>
<p>and shut the hell up i wasnt talking to you i was talking to the original person that posted. and what i was saying was that there DEFINITELY is more chance of getting in throuigh regular decision than through early decision</p>
<p>Wow, jenny540. I promise you, I wasn't trying to offend. . . I was concerned that I did fully understand your post.</p>
<p>Now, as these are public forums, people anybody can reply to other replies. It is my understanding that the goal of these forums is to provide the best information possible. Often, that involves asking other posters for clarification. I appreciate your feedback, though. As a fellow web denizen, I will weigh your opinion when I post in the future.</p>
<p>Now, @star_sail:
I think that the form is used for two purposes. First, it is used by the university for internal analysis. Second, I'd hazard a guess that it IS a factor in regular decision, despite what they say. If a student lists their other applications as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Cornell, and Brown, it is a sign that BU is a safety. Many schools are known to reject overqualified safety school applicants. So, if you're a highly competitive student applying to BU, it might not be the best decision to list your other applications. Besides that, I have no idea.</p>