<p>Tons of kids from my school apply to BC (about 35 each year.) Many of the top 5% just apply as a safety school, get accepted but don’t go. This really hurts my chances because BC is my first choice school and I really, really, really want to go. I attend the highest rated public school in NJ. It is extremely competitive and we send many kids to the ivy and upper tier schools. </p>
<p>So here goes my numbers… do you think I have a chance at EA, given all the comp at my school.</p>
<p>GPA 4.60 (out of 4) I only have weighted GPA
Top 5% in very competitive school
17 honors/AP classes
ACT 32 (superscored)
Many leadership school leader activities, School Ambassador, Tutor, NHS, Language Honor Society,
Very good essay
Very good letters of rec</p>
<p>I think you have a really good chance at EA. When we went to see BC, they talked about how they do not limit how many students that they take from any given school. They said in fact, schools that are very highly ranked, they often take many of their students. I think overall, you are a very strong candidate. Good luck:)</p>
<p>I applied EA in October. I thought the fact that so many very qualified kids apply can hurt my chances of being admitted. It really stinks that so many of them just want a safety and take spots away from kids that really want to go. But I guess that’s how it is. :(</p>
<p>No tribegirl09, the fact that other highly qualified students apply, get admitted to and use BC as a safety school has little or no impact on your chances. BC EA is a more difficult admission. BC uses the EA process to admit those students who are obviously interested in BC and whose qualifications would have gotten them admitted regardless of the timing of their application submission. They aren’t taking spots away from anyone else, they are claiming their spot.</p>
<p>Second, BC is well aware that they will yield far less than 100% of admitted students. In the fall of 2009 they admitted 30% of applicants and 25% of the admitted finally enrolled. In effect BC plans for a large percentage of students not to come - 30,000 apply, 10,000 are admitted and 2,500 attend. If you’re a qualified candidate it’s a little far-fetched to argue that the admission of highly qualified candidate makes it impossible for you to be admitted. If too many admitted students choose not to attend, in the short run BC goes to it’s waiting list, in the long run they increase the size of the admitted pool which increases the final class size. It’s not an exact science, but within certain parameters it’s highly effective.</p>
<p>Finally, given your stats and passion for attending BC I suspect that you have a very good chance of being admitted if not during EA then certainly during RD.</p>
<p>I’m fairly confident that BC will accept you. My statistics were far weaker (and I applied for regular decision) and I still got accepted. I was probably a borderline case, but it shows that BC isn’t terribly strict when it comes to examining the numbers - the intangibles are probably the most important. </p>
<p>It’s a great school; you will like it here. If they waitlist you, stay on the waitlist, write an essay saying how much you want to come, and I have no doubt that they will eventually take you.</p>
<p>Do you think that EA is in fact more selective then RD or do they say that just to make sure only the kids that really want to go apply EA?
Does anyone have stats for % accepted EA vs % accepted RD and how many from each pool actually enroll?</p>
<p>^The applicant pool for EA is slightly more competitive than RD because you have to apply EA to be eligible for one of the limited no. (15 or so?) of Presidential Scholar awards. Since this is the case, the applicant pool is more competitive. </p>
<p>BC will look at your EC’s and CS very carefully. This may be where you are not as competitive as some of the other applicants, based on your brief summation in your post.</p>
<p>Good luck and I hope you get in. Great school. My daughter is a junior business major there.</p>