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<p>Hello, I’m a soon-to-be senior in HS and wanted to know if I could get into Boston College.
Here’s my stats:</p>

<p>OVERALL WGPA: 4.875, UGPA:4.525
Class rank: 124/502 (very competitive class)
ACT: 27 (not happy with this score :(…retaking it)
SAT: taking in Sept.</p>

<p>FRESH:
French II: B/B
Global Issues: A/B
English I: A/A
Algebra I: A/A
Biology: B/A
Woods I: A/A
Health: A/A
WGPA: 4.714</p>

<p>SOPH:
French III: B/B
3D Art: B/A
English II: A/A
Keyboarding: A/A
H Geometry: B/B
Chemistry: B/A
WGPA: 4.5/4.83</p>

<p>JUNIOR:
H French IV: A/B
H US History: B/B
Photo II/III: A/A
AP English Lang: B/B
H Journ/Creative Writing: A/A
H Algebra II: B/B
H Physics: B/B
WGPA: 5.286/5.143</p>

<p>SENIOR CLASSES:
AP French
AP Macroeconomics
H Govt
AP English Lit.
AP Psyc
H Pre-Calc
AP Bio</p>

<p>EC’s
Editor for school newspaper (9-12)
Member of NArtHS (11)
Member of FrenchNHS (10-12)
Member of MathHS (11-12)
Member of French Club (9-12) applying for president or secretary senior year
Assistant for Publicity for school plays (10)
Tutoring
Volunteer at Community Hospital (11-12)
Volunteer at Animal Shelter (9,11-12)
Cashier at grocery store (11-12)</p>

<p>Awards
Participation at UIC’s Biomedical Research for a Day Mini-Medical School–entered application, got accepted.
Honorable Mention for Upstate 8 Conference (Photography)
Honorable Mention for Norris Art Show (Photo)</p>

<p>Hooks
-I’m a twin, I have a sister who’s one minute older than me
-I was diagnosed with two heart conditions when I was in 8th grade–it has affected my life drastically…I can’t participate in ANY sports or gym class, ride roller coasters(my fav. thing to do) and many more things that seem normal to kids my age.
-My parents are divorced
-First generation student
-Participated in the Make-A-Wish program and traveled to France</p>

<p>***I have visited JHU and Boston College (favorite!!!), NYU and Columbia. They were all great…which ones could I get into???
I was also thinking UCLA, Boston University, Northwestern, and…Yale (?).
Which one should I apply ED???</p>

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<p>How do you have a WGPA of 4.8 with all of those B’s your junior year?</p>

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<p>I think she might be on a 6 point scale, because with all those B’s there’s no way it could be a 5 point scale.</p>

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<p>my gpa is out of 5. sorry–i totally forgot that most schools are out of 4. so i guess my 4.83 /5 would really be 3.83/4.0 is that correct???</p>

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<p>Your GPA should be 3.525 if I’m not mistaken…
And I don’t know if you forgot a class or something but you only have 6 classes listed for Sophmore year… Did you take World Hist or anything?</p>

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<p>no…i didnt take a history that year. so what do you think my chances are?
ALSO…I will be applying in like november–are the essay questions up now? if so, will they be the same for next year? I wanted to get a head start on my essays this summer.</p>

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<p>I don’t know, I would shoot for higher test scores though</p>

<p>I would check these threads and find people similar to you
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/318740-official-class-2011-rd-decisions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/318740-official-class-2011-rd-decisions.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/42217-letters-sent-out-march-17-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/42217-letters-sent-out-march-17-a.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/676114-accepted-class-2013-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/boston-college/676114-accepted-class-2013-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I should do that soon too, BC is my number two behind McGill</p>