*~*~Official Boston College Class of 2015 RD Decisions Thread~*~*

<p>My son (from VA) got in! He is excited. We will wait to see financial aid packages at all places he was accepted, but we are so happy.</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>School applied to: Boston College</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown):Math: 740 Reading: 750 Writing: 710

  • ACT: n/a
  • SAT II: World Hist.: 800, Lit: 680, US Hist.: 780
  • Unweighted GPA: 94/100
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Not sure
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 US Hist., 4 Lit
  • IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
  • Senior Year Course Load: Graduated last year, don’t care to remember
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Couple regional awards, nothing national-level.
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech and Debate (2 years), Ethnic Club (2 years), German tutor (1 year), probably more, just don’t remember!

  • Job/Work Experience: Army Reservist
  • Volunteer/Community service: Over 250hrs as a summer camp counselor and 4 years volunteering for church functions.
  • Summer Activities: Spent summer before graduation-year as a summer camp counselor.
  • Essays: How much I matured after graduation. It probably stood out from most freshman-applicant essays imo.
  • Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read.
  • Counselor Rec: Didn’t read, probably the standard 1 counselor : 100 students rec.
  • Interview: N/A
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): NY

  • Country (if international applicant):
  • School Type: Catholic HS, 700 students graduated during my year.
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: Male
  • Income Bracket: $60,000
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation college
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: Test scores

  • Weaknesses: Major lack of APs/academic challenge.
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Because I didn’t take 9 AP classes.
  • Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted- University of Rochester, Brandeis, George Washington
    Pending- Georgetown, Brown, Tufts
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments: Meh, it is what it is. If BC doesn’t think I have enough “intellectual prowess” or “personal accomplishments” to join their class, that’s fine with me. I won’t be on waitlist, so hopefully someone who has that die-hard “BC or nothing” attitude can have a higher chance now. I sincerely hope those admitted will enjoy BC and have no regrets. Those who were rejected/waitlisted, remember that there’s always other options… it isn’t the end of the world, trust me.</p>

<p>[size=+2][color=orange]**Decision: Waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[size=+1]School applied to: CAS[ /size]</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2130 CR 750 M 640 W 740
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Bio M 710 US
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.88
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 3%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (5) US (4) Lang (5) Bio (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Psych, AP Comp Sci, Honors Precalc, Physics
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): national latin exam? </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): CSF, NHS, Asian Club, Latin Club (secretary)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring and recycling
[</em>] Summer Activities:
[<em>] Essays: If I remember correctly there were no essays?
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Should’ve been okay
[<em>] Counselor Rec: ^
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview: nope</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: Middle class
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none really</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I thought my test scores/AP scores were pretty good, guess not.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Math.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I dunno, I thought I’d get in. But maybe its more competitive then I thought
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: UCI, UCSD, USC, UCLA (probably where I’m going) Rejected: UC Berkeley (a sad day). Pending: JHU, Cornell, UPenn (these are most likely rejections)</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: Nice job to those who got it. I won’t be taking the waitlist spot so hopefully someone else will get in :)</p>

<p>accepted!! 2130 SAT, 800 Math II, 750 Chemistry
CAS
accepted: USC (most likely attending), UCSD, UOP</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted
School applied to: Carroll</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2080 - 700 CR, 700 M, 680 W
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): weighted is 4.23
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 8%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): chem 4, eng lang 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, rest honors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 3 varsity sports (and captain for all 3), several clubs, a few small leadership roles
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 2 summer jobs
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: around 200 hrs
[</em>] Summer Activities: work
[<em>] Essays: pretty good
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: probably good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: probably good
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[li] Interview: N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CT
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 70k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: good course load and activities?
[</em>] Weaknesses: average test scores and GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my grades were a lot better senior year than other years. when i got deferred i sent a letter to bc showing my interest (i dont know if that helped though)
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted: fairfield, uconn honors; pending: holy cross</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: I was deferred for early action so I was excited I got in! Just waiting on financial aid and then I will make my decision, but I would love to attend. Congratulations to everyone.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>School applied to: Carroll School of Management </p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): didn’t submit
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: Bio 680, Math 2 690
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95 (4.14 w)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 23/600
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Eng. Language (5), World History (4), Japanese (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, AP Calc BC, AP Government/Economics, Art 1, Economics of Business Ownership, Physics (A’s first semester)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Taekwon-Do (14 years, 2nd Degree black belt, team captain)
-Hall of Fame recognition for “youth excellence” (2009)
-International Instructor Certification (2008)</p>

<p>-State Championship–
2006 & 2008 (Reno, NV): 1st place patterns/2nd place spar
2008 (Salt Lake City, UT): 1st place patterns
2009 (Philadelphia, PA): 1st place patterns</p>

<p>-National Qualifiers competition–
2006: 2nd place patterns
2007: 1st place patterns, 2nd place sparring
2010: 1st place patterns, 2nd place sparring, 2nd place board breaking</p>

<p>-World Championship competition—
2006 (Geelong, Australia): 2nd place patterns, 3rd places team events
2007 (Birmingham, England): 1st place patterns, 2nd & 3rd places team
2010 (Cheong-Ju, South Korea): 1st place patterns, 2nd & 3rd places team</p>

<p>DECA (2 years, CFO): various awards at local, norcal, state level</p>

<p>Other Clubs: Red Cross, Key, CSF
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: secretary (320 hours), Taekwon-Do instructor (75 hours)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Open Heart Kitchen (90 hours), Red Cross (75 hours), Taekwon-Do unpaid teaching (150 hours)
[<em>] Summer Activities: attending international Taekwon-Do events, working
[</em>] Essays: I had a lot of fun writing them and received relatively positive responses
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: one- very good, two- flattering albeit template
[</em>] Counselor Rec: generic
[<em>] Additional Rec: from Taekwon-Do coach- very strong
[</em>] Interview: n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major:
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): East Bay CA
[</em>] School Type: large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Taekwon-Do and more Taekwon-Do
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores, rigor of course load
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li][/ul]General Comments: yay!</p>

<p>Still nothing here on the West Coast!</p>

<p>Nothing here in SoCal either…</p>

<p>Nothing here in Kentucky…</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):2160 (730m, 720r, 710w)
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II:650 Lit, 740 Math ii
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.53
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):Took Lang, but didn’t send score
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:5 APs (ab calc, env. sci, spanish, lit, gov)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Theatre, Speech Team, A Cappella, Chorale, Newspaper (Editor in chief), NHS
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:Sales Attendant at High fashion couture store, Secretarial work at Anesthesia practice
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:# NHS, tutoring, Charity Dance coordinator
[</em>] Summer Activities:Internship at local newspaper
[<em>] Essays:My commonapp essays were great (about how i made my own prom dress) and the short answer about ec was great too.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation:Not sure, I think they were pretty good. I had one math and one english too appear well rounded
[<em>] Counselor Rec:Incredible!
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview:[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:East Indian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: high
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:Course load, Extracurriculars, scores
[</em>] Weaknesses:Grades. Wow… my grades are horrendous compared to all of my other stats.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted:grades probably.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/rejected/waitlisted:[/ul] Accepted(NYU, GWU, PSU), Waitlisted (Northwestern, BC, Vassar) Rejected (Penn)
General Comments: I was expecting to get in, cuz it was one of my targets. But thank goodness its not my top choice. I was very surprised, VERY surprised. Especially since I was pretty above average on all of my naviance stats.</p>

<p>rejected in texas… sigh</p>

<p>STILL no word for me … i’m in seattle … waiting is killing me, i’m hoping to get my ‘big envelope’ tomorrow</p>

<p>question: did you find out online? or through the mail?</p>

<p>It’s through the mail.</p>

<p>[size=+2][color=green]**Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[size=+1]Honors Program!![ /size]</p>

<p>[size=+1]School applied to:[ /size]CAS</p>

<p>**Objective:[ /b][list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):710M; 640CR; 710W
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II: Spanish:790; Math1:700
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):n/a at my school
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):n/a at my school
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):none taken jr year
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):n/a
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:pretty rigorous
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):n/a</p>

<p>[ /list]**Subjective:[ /b][list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): clubs: amnesty, head of club, diversity club, jv volleyball, yearbook
[ *] Job/Work Experience:worked at a law firm during the summer of '09
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:did service in china, as well as in new orleans after the hurricane
[ *] Summer Activities: 9th grade: summer immersion program in china w/ school (1 month), 10th: worked at a law firm, 11th: chilled!
[ *] Essays: i thought they were great, but I’m not the best writer
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: probably amazing
[ *] Counselor Rec:good but didnt see
[ *] Additional Rec: should be exceptional, but i didnt see it so im not sure
[ *] Interview: n/a</p>

<p>[ /list]**Other[ /b][list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): new york
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:private, extremely prestigious and competitive (top 10 private schools in country)
[ *] Ethnicity:hispanic
[ *] Gender:female
[ *] Income Bracket:very low
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):URM and first gen. college</p>

<p>[ /list]**Reflection[ /b][list]
[ *] Strengths: my hooks, my school, my grades
[ *] Weaknesses: sats, ecs
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:my stats matched those bc wanted?
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Wesleyan, Villanova, Lehigh, Macaulay Honors Program at Baruch, Syracuse, and Stony Brook. Waitlisted/Rejected: from none so far, but I’m sure that’ll change soon when Ivy decisions come out! :)</p>

<p>[ /list]**General Comments:[ /b] Overall happy, but I received Wesleyan’s acceptance today which I cared more about. I also will not be able to see my fa package until the 28th so I dont really know if I can afford it.</p>

<p>on the website it says no admissions decisions will be sent out prior to April 1st? How is it that people are finding out already? A couple of kids from my school were admitted yesterday but some of us didnt receive ours. does that mean an all to familiar fate of rejection for the laggards like us?</p>

<p>Redoing an earlier post, found out how to get the letters haha</p>

<p> Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>School applied to: College of Arts and Sciences - Honors Program </p>

<p>No idea how I got into honors.</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 710 CR - 690 M - 800 W
[</em>] ACT: None
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Spanish w/ Listening - 740 US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9 ish?
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No school rank, top 10% probably
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History 3 lol
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP European History, AP Psychology, AP Spanish, AP English Lit, Calculus H, Theology 12 (Catholic HS)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Crew, crew, and more crew.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Not exactly
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Junior winter break to build houses in Guatemala
[</em>] Summer Activities: Lounge
[<em>] Essays: Pretty solid I think
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read them, not anything special I think
[<em>] Counselor Rec: He doesn’t even know me
[</em>] Additional Rec: None
[li] Interview: None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: White / Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 120k +
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Half URM?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[list]</p>

<p>[<em>] Strengths: Half URM I guess, solid essays, pretty good SATs
[</em>] Weaknesses: Could’ve had more ECs but doesn’t matter now
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Colgate Waitlisted: Lehigh, still waiting for lots of others.</p>

<p>Is there an honors program at Carroll?</p>

<p>@princeton135, yes there is an honors program at CSOM</p>

<p>Still waiting here on the West Coast. For those of you whe have been accepted on the East Coast, have your tabs changed on Agora Portal?</p>