<p>Hello CCers! I’m an early action applicant from New York and I have a bit of a dilemma. Looking at my school’s naviance I see that last year BC deferred many Early Action applicants with statistics very similar to mine (2220 SAT + 94 UW GPA) while admitting students with somewhat lower statistics. I asked my guidance counselor about this, and she said that many schools deferr/waitlist/reject some applicants if they feel that they are using a particular school as a safety. This is in fact not the case for me. BC is my 2nd choice school behind a large reach (Ivy). I went for a campus visit in the summer and I wasn’t offered the chance to sign in even though I attended both an information session and a tour. We were simply given a web address to sign up for a mailing list which I was already on. Additionally, BC does not offer interviews, so I cannot express interest in that way. Is there any other way I can express interest? Would an e-mail explicitally stating that BC is one of my top choices be a good idea? All advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>I really don't think BC tracks interest at all, considering they don't have you sign in when you visit or anything plus the fact that they get over 26,000 apps.</p>
<p>yeah and i dont understand how they track interest i wanted to get mail from them but when i was writing up the inquiry it says INTENDED ENTRANCE YEAR or somthin and it starts from 2008 so i was confused about that too.. is it too late to get info for entering 2007...? lol</p>
<p>i was wondering the same thing, but when i went to visit in the summer they said we could give them our name and address and stuff but that it was only so they could send us information, and they dont track it.</p>
<p>They've got way too many applications to worry about interest.</p>
<p>I was wondering about the same thing since when using the common app your essay is generic and not directed to one school</p>
<p>BC does not track interest at all. Admissions from a few top schools went to our school last year and BC said tht interest is irrelevant. </p>
<p>Luckily, i got an interview with BC :]</p>
<p>The only interest they seem to track is athletic...it is very smart to check your Naviance because you will see what a crapshoot it is! Just be ready to move onward and upward to another school that will actually interview you and look you in the eye, even if it is with an alum, as in Tuft's!!</p>
<p>BC has ~26,000 applicants. they couldnt possibly interview that many people. they sent 6 admission reps to our school for around 100 students, and it took from 8-3, every 30 minutes.</p>
<p>Conn Coll had seniors who worked in the admissions office interview my D1; it was enjoyable and my D1 felt she could be herself...Have alumni, seniors assist the admissions in the process if it comes down to the wire with cum and grades and extracurriculars...it could be optional for BC prospectives..</p>
<p>Wait so some prospective students do get interviews? I'm confused. I thought I read on BC's website that they did not offer interviews.</p>
<p>I hope not...i really wanted an interview...I'm pretty sure at the information session they said they dont offer anyone interviews tho...right?</p>
<p>They don't. That one girl's school just had one because there were SO many kids from there - it's just a tradition thing I guess when they've had so many applicants from that school every year.</p>
<p>its a well known fact that BC is big into yield protection...its extremely hard for a school which gets so many applicants from such a wide range of stats as BC does (ie some people apply to BC as a large reach, while for others it is a super safety, there arent that many other schools like this). If BC were to accept all of its top applicants, it would have to raise its acceptance rate to a point where it would extremely hurt the selectivity rating on US News, therefore BC waitlists a certain number of people from the very top of its applicant pool, those who it is almost certain will not attend, and takes some people with borderline stats because those are the ones that will help our yield stay afloat at around 35%. It is really tough being an admissions officer for BC I would imagine, especially with our location around so many top tier schools (ivies, MIT, top LACs) that we are often thrown into the college list of people who are using BC only as a last resort, and sometimes those are the ones who get waitlisted. I had a feeling it would happent to me last year, but luckily it didnt because i didnt get into most of my top choices.</p>
<p>I'm not saying I don't believe you, but do you have proof of this? Just wondering where you get this idea. If they were "big into yield protection," don't you think they'd have visitors sign in or something in order to track interest? Just doesn't seem right.</p>
<p>just look at the stats on last years regular decision thread</p>
<p>they know what stats are ivy material and what stats people will most likely come to BC with. also, if youre from a catholic or jesuit prep school they know the yield will be higher so they will accept more people, as people from these schools are known to choose BC/ND/GTown over ivies many times. Of course I cant have proof, even if i did work for admissions they wouldnt tell me that, but I do have many examples</p>
<p>uhm. its not a girl's school.. its an all guys school that has strong ties to BC. our teachers take classes at BC for free and some of them even teach part time at BC.</p>
<p>and yeah, its a jesuit high school located in boston...</p>
<p>vision, im assuming u mean bc high?</p>
<p>yup. bc high. we used to be a BC feeder, but it seems to have died down a little bit.</p>
<p>this is one thing I hate about BC...they don't care if you're interested in their school</p>