Official 2010 Regular Decision Thread

<p>**Accepted! College of Arts and Sciences **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 640
[</em>] SAT Math: 600
[<em>] SAT Writing: 710
[</em>] SAT Total: 1940
[<em>] SAT II: Bio 680; History 640
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores:
[</em>] GPA weighted: 5.3
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 4.3
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: Top 10%</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: pretty unique, I told the story of a normal day at work through a weird perspective
[</em>] Teacher Recs: probably good, didn’t read them
[<em>] Counselor Rec: She liked me so probably pretty good
[</em>] Hook (if any): None (however, I talked to the admissions counselor multiple times on the phone about BC). </p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: no
[li] Important ECs: 6+ years of fencing, NHS, French NHS, french club, tons of volunteer work at hospitals.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: </p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: BC was a reach for me and my number 1 school. I am DEFINITELY attending. Despite my SAT scores, I believe that it was the quality of my ECs rather than the quantity that helped me a lot. Congrats to everyone who has been accepted and good luck to all those that have been waitlisted or rejected!</p>

<p>** Accepted in Arts + Sciences **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 670
[</em>] SAT Math: 790
[<em>] SAT Writing: 680
[</em>] SAT Total: 2140
[<em>] SAT II: 710 Math II + 710 USH
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 5/5/5/4
[</em>] GPA weighted: N/A
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.85
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: Doesn’t Rank</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: strong
[</em>] Teacher Recs: strong
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good
[</em>] Hook (if any): none</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New York
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: Nah
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Hahah no.
[li] Important ECs: Too many.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: ???</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Happy I got in but they gave me no financial aid soooo… O_O</p>

<p>i got accepted!
never been happier</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Accepted: CSOM Finance [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT Verbal: 620
[ *] SAT Math: 800
[ *] SAT Writing: 680
[ *] SAT Total: 2100
[ *] SAT II: Math II 760 Chinese/Physics
[ *] ACT: -
[ *] AP/IB taken/scores: -
[ *] GPA weighted: 3.92
[ *] GPA unweighted: Our school doesn’t have
[ *] Rank or % estimate: top 4%</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Great!!
[ *] Teacher Recs: Both are great
[ *] Counselor Rec: I’m really close to my counselor
[ *] Hook (if any): killer ECs. I’m catholic</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Philippines
[ *] School Type: International.
[ *] Ethnicity: Korean
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Legacy Yes/No: nope
[ *] Recruited Yes/No: nope
[ *] Important ECs: School President. Various leadership positions. NHS. Various charity projects. Rensselaer medal. </p>

<p>[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/etc:[ /b] congrats to everyone who got in!!! BC is definitely one of my top choices</p>

<p>i’m international too!!
how do all of you hear about your decisions?
through via mail?
or online?
or tabs on agora portal?</p>

<p>tabs jahahaha</p>

<p>are you sure the tabs way of checking is 100% correct?
and if one i accepted…what do the tabs change to?</p>

<p>any international acceptances yet?</p>

<p>if someone could post a screen shot or detailed description of what these tabs are supposed to look like, it would be awesome. my decision still isnt up</p>

<p>Accepted: College of Arts & Sciences</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 650
[</em>] SAT Math: 620
[<em>] SAT Writing: 690
[</em>] SAT Total: 1960
[<em>] SAT II: 680 each on US History & English Literature
[</em>] ACT: Should have taken!
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 5 AP’s Senior year; 4 Eng Lang, 4 US History, 3 World History
[</em>] GPA weighted: 97.44/100
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 93.58/100
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: Top 10%</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Best of the year per GC and all the English teachers.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Did not see but probably outstanding.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Did not see but probably very good as well.<br>
[</em>] Hook (if any): Interview & artistic portfolio submission for BC Theatre Dept; Jesuit parish.</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No. Mom got rejected in the Doug Flutie years.
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Cantor at Jesuit parish for Sunday Mass; professional actor since age 10; leadership roles in school EC’s.</p>[/li]
<p>Other Factors: Intended Theatre major with impressive performance resume/website.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Sorry…having trouble with formatting and don’t have the patience anymore. S still deciding between BC, Fordham LC and NYU. Best of luck to all!</p>

<p>ahhh I logged in, clicked on application status, and got </p>

<p>“If you have not previously submitted your non-refundable Enrollment Confirmation and Housing Guarantee fees, please click here to do so.”</p>

<p>But I don’t see anything that says that I got accepted. Does that mean that I’m in or not?</p>

<p>Yeah. It means that you’re in. Again, too scared to look. Hurry up BC with the mail!</p>

<p>^ Good luck, GD!</p>

<p>Awesome! Thanks GoldenDomer - good luck!</p>

<p>Accepted: College of Arts & Sciences</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 700
[</em>] SAT Math: 790
[<em>] SAT Writing: 660
[</em>] SAT Total:2150
[<em>] SAT II: Maths II: 800; Chemistry: 800; Biology: 780
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: IB Predictied - 44
[</em>] GPA weighted: No idea
[<em>] GPA unweighted: No idea
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: Top 5%</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good I think. I took time to get to know him personally :smiley:
[</em>] Hook (if any): Erm… don’t think so.</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Taipei, Taiwan
[</em>] School Type: International School
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy: Nope
[</em>] Recruited: Nope
[li] Important ECs: [url=<a href=“http://yichunteng.blogspot.com%5DYi-Chun”>http://yichunteng.blogspot.com]Yi-Chun</a> (Eva) Teng<a href=“scroll%20to%20bottom%20if%20you%20don’t%20want%20to%20listen%20to%20the%20videos”>/url</a></p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Hmm… No idea to be honest :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Although I won’t be going to Boston College, it’s still a nice surprise. Good luck to all of you :)</p>

<p>Where will you be going ultramarine? BC is my second choice, next to, the obvious. So I really want to get in. Thanks I need all the luck I can get guys.</p>

<p>@GoldenDomer: University of Cambridge for medicine, if I make the offer (:
What’s your first choice?</p>

<p>**Decision && School: Accepted, CAS **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 630
[</em>] SAT Math: 590
[<em>] SAT Writing: 620
[</em>] SAT Total: 1840
[<em>] SAT II: World History: 730, Math Level II: 660
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Junior Year: AP World History - 5. Senior Year - AP Chemistry, AP Calculus AB, AP English Literature
[</em>] GPA weighted: N/A
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.92
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: N/A</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: A standout. I discuss my experience moving from California to Sudan.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I’ve been told that they were very good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I heard that it was great.
[</em>] Hook (if any): I’m Sudanese - there are only a handful of Sudanese people, graduating from high schools in Sudan, who apply to universities for undergrad.</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Sudan
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: African
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: MUN for three years, was our school’s MUN club Secretary General junior year. Went to two international conferences - one in Jordan, and one in Singapore.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Uh, I put my religion down as Muslim and I know BC desires to establish their school as more diverse, ethnicity and religion wise, so that possibly helped? Lol.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Really didn’t think I was going to get in. BC is a fantastic university and I’m honored to have been accepted, however I was admitted to University of Southern California a month ago and I’m definitely going there instead. Already paid my deposit and everything. Good luck to everyone!</p>

<p>I posted my stats yesterday-- you can find it.</p>

<p>I’m an international student from Canada — resident of Canada</p>

<p>I got the tabs yesterday and the mail this afternoon :)</p>

<p>Good luck</p>

<p>Accepted: College of Arts & Sciences</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT Verbal: 680
SAT Math: 800
SAT Writing: 700
SAT Total:2180
SAT II: Maths I: 770; Maths II: 750; French: 680
ACT: N/A
AP/IB taken/scores: IB Predicted 45
Rank or % estimate: Valedictorian (1st out of 55)</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: 2 pretty impressive ones (i hope!)
Teacher Recs: Very Good
Counselor Rec: Excellent</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Athens, Greece
School Type: International School
Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Gender: Male
Legacy: Brother
Recruited: Nope
Important ECs: Member of national debate team, MUN, Youth parliament, theatre club, radio station, student government, student magazine, swimming, tennis, mathematics club
Other Factors: …?</p>

<p>Accepted: Lynch School of Education</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 630
[</em>] SAT Math: 710
[<em>] SAT Writing: 650
[</em>] SAT Total: 1990
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: taken 3 and got all 4’s
[</em>] GPA weighted: 3.644
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 4.067
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: 15% I think?</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: pretty good I guess
[</em>] Teacher Recs: decent
[li] Counselor Rec: excellent; it was from the principal of my school</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Colorado
[</em>] School Type: Public, almost 4,000 students
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Really active in youth group (leader, etc.), lots of tutoring/teaching experience, auditioned choir, NHS, tennis, DECA, etc.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
I’m pretty surprised I got in, but so, so happy!</p>