<p>So I’m getting anxious and find myself checking this site and Agora everyday (which i expect most of us are doing); I figured why not get the ball rolling and make the decisions thread since it’s now the official mailing period. Please only post decisions and congratulations. Good luck to everyone in the coming days!</p>
<p><em>Make sure you remove the space right after the first [ in each line!</em></p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 700
[</em>] SAT Math: 780
[<em>] SAT Writing: 720
[</em>] SAT Total: 2200
[<em>] SAT II: bio 670, math 700
[</em>] ACT: 35 composite with a 36 on science
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 4’s and 5’s on every AP
[</em>] GPA weighted: N/A
[li] GPA unweighted: 3.75</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: magnet
[li] Ethnicity: asian[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
I am absolutely shocked by my decision. I felt that I definitely deserved an acceptance… I’m extremely nervous to hear from my other schools since I had originally thought of BC as a low match.</p>
<p>Decision && School:
Boston College CAS DENIED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal:640
[</em>] SAT Math:650
[<em>] SAT Writing:700
[</em>] SAT Total:1990
[<em>] SAT II:US History-770, Biology-680, Chemistry-670
[</em>] ACT: Did not take
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Just took Ap US History last year (5), chem, gov and politics, envi sci this year
[</em>] GPA weighted:Not sure not out of 4.0 scale
[<em>] GPA unweighted: about a 3.9 , when i put it in the scale
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: 16 out of 456</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: really great, others really like it, original topic
[</em>] Teacher Recs: don’t know didn’t see them, one is annoying me though cause a teacher i asked to write it i thought liked me but now i found out she doesn’t it
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didnt see
[</em>] Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New Jersey
[</em>] School Type: Public - Fairly Large (about 2000)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White, italian catholic
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: no
[li] Important ECs: eagle scout, boys state, science league, math league, TEAM (community service), medical club, NHS, lots</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: I don’t know why I was denied and Im pretty annoyed, if someone could guess why that would be great, i thought my SATS would be weak but they were in the middle 50% range.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: What annoys me is how im reading kids from other countries are getting in before the kids in the US. when are we gonna recognize that we need to put our country first.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 730
[</em>] SAT Math: 800
[<em>] SAT Writing: 790
[</em>] SAT Total: 2320
[<em>] SAT II: Math II: 800 Chemistry: 800 Physics: 800
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Chemistry 5, Physics B 5
[</em>] GPA weighted: 4.2
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.9
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: Top 5%</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Okay
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Didn’t read (I assume they were good)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably pretty generic
[</em>] Hook (if any): Nope</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CT
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Nothing amazing, 1 varsity sport, a couple of other activities that I’ve been very involved in (Sorry I can’t be more specific)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: A couple of awards, a good amount of community service, unique/interesting summer activities.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Congrats to everyone who got in, good luck to the waitlistees, and for those that didn’t get accepted, don’t get down on yourself you’ll get in somewhere that you love.</p>
<p>BTW, I got the extra tabs at around 9 am eastern time today, in case anyone was interested.</p>
<p>International students usually do not qualify for need-based financial aid and must pay the full tuition cost, so accepting students outside the US definitely helps with the school’s budget.</p>
<p>SAT Verbal: 690
SAT Math: 790
SAT Writing: 720
SAT Total: 2200
ACT: 33
GPA weighted:4.0 91.92
GPA unweighted:4.0 94.32
Rank or % estimate:Top 10</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
Essays:OK
Teacher Recs: Didnt see
Counselor Rec: Didnt see
Hook (if any): First generation</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
State or Country:MA USA
School Type: Private- very competitive
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Legacy Yes/No: N
Recruited Yes/No: N
Important ECs: Dance team captain, Choral leader, Job, Community Service .</p>
<p>Other Factors: Boss from work sent in a great rec letter</p>
<p>Congrats to all that got in and to those that did not, you find success somewhere else!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 660
[</em>] SAT Math: 760
[<em>] SAT Writing: 780
[</em>] SAT Total: 2200
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 5 on AP US History
[</em>] GPA weighted:
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.9
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: top 8%</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Spent a lot of time on them. Teacher told me they were amazing. Main one was about me as a basketball coach. Additional info was a beautiful piece about immigrating to the US.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One said I was best student in his 10 yrs of teaching. Other was pretty good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Regular
[</em>] Hook (if any): first generation/born in a different country?</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: volunteer basketball coach at an athletic league, Eucharistic minister, varsity math league school winner, volunteer at local shelter, plus a bunch more.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]**Other Factors: **</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Bleh. I guess the competition was pretty rough?</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 690
[</em>] SAT Math: 690
[<em>] SAT Writing: 650
[</em>] SAT Total: 2030
[<em>] SAT II: 690 USH, 620 Lit, 600 Math II
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Euro 3, USH 4, Lang/Comp 5; taking Psych, Gov, Stats, Econ, and Lit this year
[</em>] GPA weighted: 5.8/6.0
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.7/4.0
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: top 5%</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I thought they were pretty solid
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Never saw them…
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Terrible haha, he’s a dink
[</em>] Hook (if any): None</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Public, sends a few grads to top schools
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Area All-State musician on both trumpet and vocals, 2 varsity sports and captain on both, lead in the school musical, a ton of others</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Dunno, I had really good EC’s?</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Ugh. This will set the tone for all my reaches.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 680
[</em>] SAT Math: 720
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2200
[<em>] SAT II: 700 Lit, 700 Math I, 690 Bio-E
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Bio (5), Psych (5), Gov’t (4)
[</em>] GPA weighted: 4.8
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.9
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: 2/285</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: My essay was pretty good, though nothing spectacular
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Didn’t read
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read
[</em>] Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: Pennsylvania
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[*] Important ECs: Model UN, NMF, National Honor Society, International Thespian Society, Jazz band, Heroes Program, School Newspaper</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 800
[</em>] SAT Math: 720
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2320
[<em>] SAT II: 800 UShist, 770 Bio, 750 Math II
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: US Hist 5, Bio 5, Spanish Lang 5, Calc AB, Euro Hist, Spanish Lit, Music Theory, English Lit
[<em>] GPA weighted: 102.010
[</em>] GPA unweighted: unknown
[li] Rank or % estimate: 1/120</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good?
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Great
[li] Counselor Rec: Great</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NJ
[</em>] School Type: Catholic
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Lots of music stuff, Sailing, Leadership in Key Club</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Went to Governor’s School last summer. </p>
<p>Congrats everyone! Good luck to waitlisted people!:</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 680
[</em>] SAT Math: 800
[<em>] SAT Writing: 760
[</em>] SAT Total: 2240
[<em>] SAT II: 740 Math II, 720 USH, 700 French Reading (2160)
[</em>] ACT: -
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 4 Comp Sci A; 4 Comp Sci AB; 4 English Lang; 3 US History; Taking English Lit, French Lang, Calc BC, Macroeconomics, US Govt this year.
[</em>] GPA weighted: 4.5
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.67 (Exactly 2 A’s for every B I’ve made)
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: 96/1200</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I don’t think it was that good… I had a friend look at it and that was it. No teachers or parents.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good, one taught me from 8th and 11th so I think that she had an interesting perspective on how I’ve matured; French teacher has had me for three years and has liked me a lot
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I think it was good. My counselor likes me
[</em>] Hook (if any): None</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: TX
[</em>] School Type: Large (4000)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Not many at all. French Club Pres, French Club Vice Pres, FNHS, Key Club for two years. That’s it.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: I’ve held a job every summer since 8th grade and two since the beginning of senior year. Besides that… nothing really</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I wasn’t too surprised I got in but I’ve been so happy about it :)</p>
<p>Wait how do you guys know that you are accepted??
I logged on and apparently I can pay my deposit and stuff but it doesn’t really say that I got in</p>
<p>Stats:[list]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 700
[</em>] SAT Math: 700
[<em>] SAT Writing: 740
[</em>] SAT Total: 2140
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: US History (5), Psych (5), Lang. & Comp. (5)
[</em>] GPA weighted: 4.0
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.9
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: Top 10%</p>
<p>Subjective:[list]
[<em>] Essays: Unique - I wrote my Common App about being left-handed.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Definitely awesome, I was really close to those teachers (Physics and AP World/AP Comparative Teacher)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I’m assuming fantastic because I have a very close relationship with my counselor.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Didn’t have one for BC (for other schools it was being a female engineer) - just over all well rounded. </p>
<p>Location/Person:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Public, around 1,000 kids.
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Model Congress (Secretary), Piano, Dance</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Awesome job everybody! Around five people got accepted from my school (that I know of), and one was rejected. BC would be my DREAM school if it had a civil engineering program…</p>
<p>ACT: 33
GPA: 91
HS: very ultra-competitive public high school
extras: good
recs good
rank:unranked
asian male
hooks: first generation to attend college.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: did not submit
[</em>] SAT II:did not submit
[<em>] ACT: 32; 10 writing
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: AP Chemistry: 3; AP Language & Comp: 4
[<em>] GPA: 94.3/100
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: school doesn’t rank, but around like top ten is what my counselor told me</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Common App essay was about my heritage (I’m Nigerian) and how it’s affected my views. Supplement: I did not think it was particularly outstanding, but I guess I was wrongg
[</em>] Teacher Recs: don’t know. But I asked one of the teachers for a rec last year for MITES and my guidance counselor read it and said it was “lovely”
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I don’t know.
[</em>] Hook (if any): URM (black)</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Catholic, Small (my class has 65 in it)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Black
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: Nope
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Nope
[li] Important ECs: Varsity Cheerleading (fall & winter 10, 11, 12), Varsity Spring Track (11, 12), Youth Court Facts Attorney, Circle of Friends volunteer, Senior Class Council Rep, Empire Girls’ State Delegate, People to People Student Ambassador and National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine as summer activities[/li]Job/Work Experience: internship at local neurologist’s clinic, paperwork etc at mom’s office</p>
<p>[/ul]**Other Factors: **
Idk, I guess they just liked me =]</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Congrats to everyone else!! idk where BC stands on my list yet though, it all depends on next week =x</p>