My understanding is that they only accept 75-100 kids, which is why I’m so surprised and humbled that I made the cut!
ACT 33
SAT 2080 (2160 superscored)
GPA 114/100 weighted
Rank 5/716 (this rank is pretty recent though so they might have based their decision off the 8/726 I had at the beginning of the year or the 7/716 I had after the first semester)
11 APs
NHS treasurer
SNHS secretary
Lots of ECs
I guess my essays and my recs were good?
Again, I feel incredibly humbled and honored to be have accepted!
@collegegirl2k19 congratulations! My understanding is that they’re aiming to end up with about that number, so they probably need to accept a few hundred to get that result, given BU’s yield. But that’s still a few hundred lookout if tens of thousands, so you definitely beat the odds!
I’m glad I got into the honors college but it doesn’t seem like I got any merit scholarship, which is odd considering I’ve received presidenial scholarships at every other college i’ve been accepted to.
Applied for Trustees, but rejected by BU. So is it still possible to get the money ??
ok, ok, just kidding (the money part, Rejection is real.)
ACT 35, SAT2: math2 800, chem 800, bio 780,
NMF, NHS,
6AP’s all A’s and 5’s. Currently taking 3 AP.
president of 2 clubs; board member of another 2.
Gold medal on some national/state competitions.
Cancer research at Stanford 1 summer, Published 1 paper.
500+ hours community service.
My D is one of the lucky ones to be chosen for trustee scholarship and we are so happy,
International IB Student with 4HL, a very well written essay for the trustee scholarship and stellar recommendations.
Loads of extra curriculars.
Two emotions here: D was accepted this morning (which is great!) and she received the presidential scholarship (also great) but the money is just still so hard…even with the honor of the scholarship, total cost will be $42,000 a year. Which is really hard to get my head around…
@southernhope Same issue here. D2 received the Presidential and admittance to Kilachand, which are definitely honors and are much appreciated. But several other schools have either given her more merit aid or simply cost significantly less. I think it’s probably dominated at this level. It’s too bad; I think she would have really enjoyed Kilachand, BU, and Boston…
My best friend was accepted today to Engineering. Got the Presidential Scholarship but not the Honors College or Trustee Scholarship. ACT 35, Valedictorian (out of 450 students at a top public school). 12 APs, all fives, National Merit Semi-Finalist, Math Team Captain, 800s on Math 2, Physics. 20k isn’t going to convince him to drop a full ride offer from Northeastern or paying $20k extra to go to Yale (got in EA). Perhaps BU didn’t want to “waste” a Trustee Scholarship on him. Too bizarre! I just don’t get it!
@argentinaforever I got Honors for biomedical engineering too but not Presidential, and I had a 35 act too lmao. I’m Salutatorian and I have all of these APs and a perfect science ACT score, and research and National Merit and all of this other good stuff. I was deferred Harvard EA but I got presidential/full ride like everywhere else I got in so far…I didn’t get a dollar from BU. It’s really weird. I kinda think that maybe BU doesnt want to give out too much money to certain people because they know that these students will not go to their school anyways. but I don’t know. I’m butthurt lmao and I’m sorry to hear that about your friend! But congrats for yale for him/her!
@jb9832 Remember that what you see on cc is mostly statistical and not at all the full portrait odd the applicants. Just to pick one example - most students have waived their right to see their recs, so they don’t know whether they’re good, great, or outstanding, for example.
At my high school, the guidance counselors read the teacher recommendations, regardless of waivers. Some share qualitative descriptions with their students. My buddy knew he had stellar recommendations as his GC volunteered that to him.
I got into Honors college with Presidential scholarship! I’m excited! Does anyone know how many people are accepted into honors per year, either acceptance rate or a number? I’m curious about the gravity of this.
Here are the numbers as released by the admissions office:
Kilachand Honors College: Top 4% Avg. 3.9 Unweighted GPA 2190 Avg. SAT 33 Average Composite ACT w/writing
Presidential Scholarship: Top 3% Avg. 3.9 Unweighted GPA 2175 Avg. SAT 33 Average Composite ACT w/writing
Trustee Scholarship: Top 3% Avg. 3.9 Unweighted GPA 2237 Avg. SAT 34 Average Composite ACT w/writing
For Kilachand Honors College there needed to be demonstrated multidisciplinary interest making it very difficult for Engineering students, regardless of stats, to be accepted since there is little opportunity for non Engineering courses because of the shear number of requirements in the Engineering school.
Accepted to COE and somehow Kilachand despite a handful of typos/grammarical errors in my essay. I didnt apply for the trustees scholarship out of laziness.
I’m also wondering how selective Kilachand is. I know the college size is about 100, but that doesn’t tell me too much.
@jb9832
That makes absolutely no sense. They wouldn’t offer you nothing in terms of scholarship because they think you aren’t going to accept. It’s not like you can take it in cash and go elsewhere. If anything, they’d offer you more so that you’d attend. Maybe your essay sucked. I know mine would’ve.
@Nbo197 Congratulations to your daughter! Has she decided to enroll?
I got accepted to the Honors college and got thr trustee scholarship as well, but I am unable to decide between taking the offer or going to WUSTL with aid (the difference comes to 24,000 $ per year). I’m planning on pursuing political science and Biology, and hopefully go to law school later. Any tips, anyone? BU’s offer is humbling, but WUSTL is great too!