EA Notifications

<p>Deferred…2190 SAT, top ten percent, varsity athlete/volunteer, good reviews on essays</p>

<p>Those are high stats^ I’m surprised.</p>

<p>Just out of curiosity, did a lot of other people from your school apply to BC/did a lot of those people NOT receive an email?</p>

<p>This is crazy! But I still believe all deferrals have been sent. Also, BC head admission officer came to school a while back and emphasized the essays over and over. That’s my only guess as to why some of you with 2100+ were deferred and some with lower will probably be accepted.</p>

<p>Wow. I might have actually been rejected, seeing ppl with high stats deferred…</p>

<p>@coolpillow: if you had stats in BCs 25-75 percentile I don’t think they would flat reject you EA</p>

<p>if emailing the deferrals was really a mistake you think they may have just sent deferrals to one school? - anyone deferred feel like posting which school you applied to? I applied to Nursing and did not get an email.</p>

<p>^ I applied to Carroll but haven’t heard anything yet. I don’t think they review apps by school, so everyone should receive it at once… It’s really unlikely they sent out those emails by “mistake.”</p>

<p>Pretty surprised by the number of 2100+ SAT students who got deferred this year. Not a rejection obviously but I don’t remember it being this competitive last year (albeit, this is a very small sample size).</p>

<p>Deferred. 3.5 UW/4.0 W, 32 ACT, 2120 SAT (660 Math, 660 English, 800 CritReading).</p>

<p>Not surprised (they stressed how competitive ED was), and I feel I have a chance in RD.</p>

<p>Interestingly, they also introduced a supplemental essay this year too.</p>

<p>how do you know there are more deferrals? Where did you read that</p>

<p>I am utterly shocked by the strength of applicants deferred-- even be it this small a sample! I wish we could get a clarification if all deferrals were really sent out or not. Applied to college AandS with no email</p>

<p>So the students whom have been deferred today, how did you get the letter? Via email? </p>

<p>Sent from my SGH-T989 using CC</p>

<p>An explanation for what seems to be a lot of deferrals with high stats could simply just be that, in general, College Confidential users have higher stats, </p>

<p>If every person who was deferred was forced to report their scores on here, we would maybe see a different trend…</p>

<p>Although, that will never happen and there will never be a way to tell. We’ll all know in a week I guess.</p>

<p>Too good for Boston College?</p>

<p>They asked for my mid-semester report november, I wasn’t notified, but I noticed it on my portal and they received it very early December.</p>

<p>Is there a consensus as to whether all deferrals have been sent or not? </p>

<p>It’s hard to imagine a random amount being sent with no order to the madness</p>

<p>I personally believe that all deferrals were sent out. Numerous people said that they called Admissions who told them that all deferrals had been sent out. If this had not been the case, I would assume more people would have received emails today, but this does not seem the case.
I applied to Lynch; has anyone else applied/been emailed?
Starting to get very nervous!</p>

<p>Dear Readers : Over the last several weeks, we have seen several posters and threads discuss Boston College in the context of a safety school, an Ivy-League option, and an additional option on the plate. Now with the EA results are emerging, we are seeing large numbers of College Confidential posters who are “shocked” by the results.</p>

<p>Let me share some early, albeit generic, points regarding the EA round. First and foremost, remember that from roughly 6,000 EA applications, approximately 2,500 on average are accepted (typically resulting in a yield of about 30%).</p>

<p>Take a closer look at the Boston College board score metrics on CollegeBoard.com. There, you will see that 30% of the entire freshman class has critical reading scores of 700 or more; 42% of Mathematics scores are 700 or more; 44% of Writing scores are 700 or more. If you look at the overall midpoints, critical reading is at 670, Mathematics is at 690, and Writing is at 680.</p>

<p>The point is that scores below these midpoints appear in the entire admissions pool - expecting an EA acceptance based on numbers in the mid-600 range is a longshot when considered in isolation.</p>

<p>Another poster highlighted the essays - including the supplemental essay this year. Over the last several years, we have stressed that our applicants need to answer the “Why BC?” question. Take a critical eye to your essays if you were deferred and consider if you answered this very simple question. As we have written numerous times, Boston College knows it is a great institution - any school in the Top 30 nationally would be able to make that claim. The question is why you as an applicant make Boston College a better place for the upcoming freshman class.</p>

<p>Now, some readers will ask themselves “How would I know that answer since I have not attended Boston College yet?” In fact, that is the core of the difference in the essays. Many students can demonstrate a true passion for Boston College through their research on the school, its programs, academics, and culture. Those that can weave this story into the existing essay topics will be the most successful. </p>

<p>Finally, review your leadership, volunteerism, sports, music, arts, clubs, GPA, course work (versus the top levels at your high school), awards, honor societies, rigor of your academics (AP/IB vs. Honors), and finally presentation of all of this material. Did you paint a picture that reads acceptance or is your application simply a bullet list of items?</p>

<p>Spend some time reflecting on these points as the difference between acceptance and deferral typically resides within these very few points at a macro level.</p>

<p>Thanks for your insights, Scott.</p>