<p>Hey! I’m a HS junior this year and I visited BC this summer. I must say, I really loved it. I am looking at more throughout the year, but I’d love to attend. Since I’m a junior, I haven’t taken SATs but my PSAT score was 220 so hopefully I will be around 2200 for the SATs. Practice tests have indicated around that same score area. I am a white/pacific islander male, not sure if that really affects anything, though.</p>
<p>My grades have been straight A’s throughout HS.
At the end of senior year, I hope to have taken the following AP classes:
AP Language and Composition
AP Calc AB
AP Calc BC
AP Economics
AP Government
AP Literature</p>
<p>GPA: 4.43 weighted, 4.0 UW
Rank: 9 out of 591 </p>
<p>Here are the ECs I am currently involved in:
ASB- Jr. Historian
CSF- Jr. Tutoring Coordinator
Drama- Deeply involved since freshman year (Play and musical lead as a sophomore)
Newspaper Asst. Editor-in-Chief
School Magazine Photography Editor
Coordinates annual “Student-Directed One Acts”, raising over $1000 each night
Serves as a Youth Councilmember for my city
Freshmen Mentor Program Member
Eagle Scout</p>
<p>Awards:
English Medal Winner (Each grade level has one winner)
Math Achievement Award
Dance Department Award (First boy to win)
Principal’s Honor Role all four semesters I have been in HS</p>
<p>Volunteering:
Tutoring- approx 100 hours so far
Various Community Service through service clubs- 150 hours so far
Local Umpire for Youth Baseball League</p>
<p>Not sure what else I’ll need to include. Chances? I know you can’t accurately give chances without solid SAT’s but I am confident of my ability to test at the same level I have practiced at.</p>
<p>keep up the good work you seem to be on the right track. Schools like BC like it when applicants demonstrate leadership so keep that in mind. You’re only gonna get a 2200 SAT after getting a 220 on the PSAT if you prepare for it. the PSAT is much easier than the SAT. There isn’t much more to say.
Keep it up!</p>
<p>This is an often-stated piece of advice, but it bears repeating: Pick 2 or 3 things in HS that you do with deep passion, as opposed to going for breadth and surface-involvement. Also, BC is huge on volunteer activities (community service; church involvement) – it has a very high volunteeer quotient among students on campus, whether in the local Boston community or in national/international programs – but you’re already well on the way there too. Best of luck. It’s awesome here.</p>
<p>Thanks DukeofEarl and azavras. I am pretty deeply involved in what I am currently involved in, and I just enjoy staying busy! Drama is really the one thing that takes up the most time, though.</p>
<p>I visited BC this summer and the atmosphere (even without students) was great! I’m coming back this March to see it again since school will be in session.</p>
<p>Thanks, that is what I thought prior to coming here, but everyone just seems so loaded! I’m trying to figure out reaches, matches and safeties. Do you have any suggestions @konrad?</p>
<p>@BostonBoy95: Good luck. Not sure what you mean by everyone here seeming “so loaded”. If you mean with brains and accomplishments, yeah many are. If you mean with money, yeah many are (but not me, I’m a townie ). And if you mean with beer, well, yeah, many are at times. Anyway, come by when class is in session and see for yourself.</p>
<p>@konradpawlak: Not sure about your “aim higher” comment. I agree that BostonBoy has strong creds, no doubt. But his numbers and stats are right in line with typical BC admits. Don’t fall into the simple trap that assumes life is better at one of the 20 or 30 schools that may rank higher than BC in some national surveys, just because they rank higher. College is your home for 4 years, and BC is an awesome place to live and learn as an undergraduate.</p>
<p>@BostonBoy95: If you want reaches, matches and safeties: Let’s stick with Catholic tradition schools since the list gets huge without a filer, but look at Providence, Stonehill, Fairfield for safeties – all GREAT schools but slightly lower bar for the numeric aspects of your stats. Matches I’d say Villanova (although may be slightly lower but not a safety), Notre Dame, maybe Tufts (although slightly higher toward being a reach all things being equal). For stretch you get into Georgetown (just more competitive in terms of yield), and Duke and all the Ivories and Ivory wannabes. DISCLAIMER: This is all quick and dirty and slapped together by me, conpletely my uninformed opinion based on me applying to a lot of those schools back a few years ago, so please, knee-jerk flamers, don’t start in with “How can you say Tufts is not above Georgetown, blah blah blah.” I know, it’s an inexact science, and one person’s cool school is another’s slum (even though I got into Brown, once I really looked at it I thought it was a disheveled mess administratively, and the buildings were mostly dumps, but I know it is some people’s be all dream school and I respect that). That’s why ice cream comes in different flavors.</p>
). And if you mean with beer, well, yeah, many are at times. Anyway, come by when class is in session and see for yourself.</p>