***Official Boston College Class of 2021 REA Results Thread***

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[aB][asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]**
[aB][asize=4][acolor=#FFA500]Decision: Deferred[/color][/size]**
[aB][asize=4][acolor=#FF0000]Decision: Rejected[/color][/size]**

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major:
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

General Comments:

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1420 (750 reading, 670 math)
ACT (breakdown): 34 (36 reading, 35 English, 32 science, 31 math)
SAT II:
GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 unweighted, 4.86 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10/268
AP (place score in parenthesis): government (4), lang (5), calc ab (5), world history (5), psychology (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP European History, Calc bc ap, ap environmental science, ap statistics, ap human geography, English 12 ap, senior dance company
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): silver award in the National Spanish Exam, AP scholar with distinction, commended student for the national merit scholars program

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): school dance team, church bible study, church youth group, student leader for my mission trip, national honor society, treasurer of national honor society for the dance arts
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: summer mission trips to appalachia, cold weather shelters, food drives
Summer Activities: mission trips
Essays (rating 1-10, details): super proud of both the common app essay and my supplemental, probably the best essays I wrote
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): it is pretty much required to waive your rights where I’m from but I’m pretty sure my counselors was very generic because I had never met her

Teacher Rec #1: probably really nice (my teacher loved me and hung my thank you note on his fridge) but couldn’t read it
Teacher Rec #2: probably well written, but fairly generic
Counselor Rec: probably very generic
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: no
Intended Major: psychology
State (if domestic applicant): MD
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 200k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

Strengths: my gpa, essays, and maybe my act score; also my religious involvement and mission work probably didn’t hurt at a catholic university!
Weaknesses: my sat, not enough extracurriculars in my school
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I am dedicated to both school and mission work and all of my activities show this
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: haven’t heard back from anywhere else yet!

General Comments: so so excited!! happy that my first decision was a good one. congrats to everyone else that was accepted and if you were deferred good luck!!

p.s. sorry for the lack of capitalization, my shift key is broken

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown): 33 (Reading 34, English 34, Science 33, Math 32, Writing 23)
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t send
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Macro, AP Stat, AP Physics, World Religions, English 4 Honors (elective english course), Arabic 3 Honors, Intro to Linguistics (Dual Enrollment at Jesuit university)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 4-year scholarship to my private, Catholic high school

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Member and President of Aviation club for all 4 years, Varsity bowling for 2 years, Campus Ministry 3 years, Ecological Ministry 1 year
Job/Work Experience: 40 hr/week retail during the summer, started my own business and reflected on the lessons learned in my common app essay, worked maintenance 40hr/week another summer
Volunteer/Community service: 35 per year since sophomore year, 37 so far this year with another 35+ more to go
Summer Activities: work and travel
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10, I put a lot of effort into the Common App essay.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: 9
Teacher Rec #2:7
Counselor Rec:10
Additional Rec:
Interview:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Business Administration
State (if domestic applicant): CT
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Jesuit High School
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Jesuit high school, feeder for BC

Reflection

Strengths: Test scores, Jesuit high school definitely helped
Weaknesses: Applied to Carroll when my numbers weren’t necessarily the best.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

General Comments:

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Decision: Accepted
[aB][asize=4][acolor=#FFA500]Decision: Deferred[/color][/size]**
[aB][asize=4][acolor=#FF0000]Decision: Rejected[/color][/size]**

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): 30 superscored
SAT II: didn’t take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank but probably top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): World history (5), US history (5), biology (4), lang and comp (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish, AP calc AB, AP Gov, Physics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): math league (officer), spanish club (president), science club, service clubs, basketball, softball- varsity, tennis-varsity
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: community service club at school
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
common app 7/10… kind of cliche- about going through a really bad depression but gaining a new outlook on life
BC 8/10… essay #4 about jesuit education- talked about my commitment to service and using the privilege of an education to serve others
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): didn’t get to read any of them but I would suspect they’re good. Both from teachers I’ve had for 2 years and have seen me put a lot of time and work into difficult courses to excel

Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec: didn’t read either but apparently talked a lot about my ECs
Additional Rec:
Interview:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: biology
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private Catholic
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths: High GPA, really stepped on the gas junior year and got the best grades I had ever gotten, a lot of ECs and I would assume good letters of rec, a lot of awards
Weaknesses: ACT was terrible- I literally didn’t even study or think it mattered (NOT A GOOD IDEA IN HINDSIGHT), no work experience
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: high GPA, rigorous high school
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted at northeastern

General Comments: looking at other ppls stats I’m surprised I got in, mostly bc of my ACT score, but I suppose my gpa makes up for it. Really grateful to have gotten in though. If you got deferred- Don’t lose hope! You still have as much of a chance as everyone else!

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Decision: Accepted CSOM

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1460 (790M & 670 R&W)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: Physics (790) Math II (770)
Unweighted GPA (out of 100): 94.74 uw
Weighted GPA: N/A
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Stats (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP BC Calc, AP Physics C, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP US Govt, Spanish VH, Forms of Writing / Sports Literature, and Accounting
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Only small school awards: Departmental Certificates of Merit, National Honors Society, Scholar Athlete

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

  • Stock Market Club (Founder and President)
  • Entrepreneurs Club (Treasurer)
  • Active Youth (Treasurer) : Non profit website that helps and encourages kids to exercise and eat well
  • Soccer: School and Club
  • Baseball: School
  • Best Buddies
  • FBLA
  • Youth Court
    Job/Work Experience:
  • Two summers at local minor league baseball stadium as cook/dishwasher
    Volunteer/Community service:
  • Hi5 Sports (20 hours): help kids with disabilities play and enjoy sports
  • Tutor (30 hours)
    Summer Activities: soccer, work, etc.
    Essays (rating 1-10, details):
  • Common App: 9/10 really liked it; choose challenged idea prompt

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): overall they didn’t make or break my applications
Teacher Rec #1: 9/10 Honors US History Teacher
Teacher Rec #2: 8/10 AP Stats Teacher
Counselor Rec: 7/10 Didn’t know each other too well but we got along well
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yessir
Intended Major: Finance
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Low enough for substantial aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Zip zero none

Reflection

Strengths: EC’s, supplemental essay, SAT IIs, upward trend
Weaknesses: Not most rigorous course load except senior year (1 AP through junior year and 6 senior year), only average GPA, counselor rec, no major awards, no hooks
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My supplemental essay was the best essay I have written in my life, I showed my passion for business through the courses I took and my extracurriculars, and my math SAT score.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Deferred from Northeastern and still waiting EA on Gtown, Villanova, and Binghamton and RD on Bentley, GW, and NYU

General comments:
Honestly very surprised especially after getting deferred from Northeastern earlier. This really shows you how much of a crap shoot college admissions really is. When a BC adcom came to my school he said that the first thing he looks at is the supplemental essay to get an idea of the student before reading the rest so I made sure that was perfect which I think was a leading cause of my acceptance. Very happy to be accepted and BC will definitely be in my head as May 1st approaches.

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[asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2080 (did not submit)
ACT (breakdown): 34 C - 32 Math, 35 Science, 34 English, 35 Reading
SAT II: 620 Spanish, 720 Lit, 700 Math II (did not submit any)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top ~11%
AP (place score in parenthesis): World (4), AP Lang (5), Stats (4), APUSH (4), Micro and Macroecon (4), Calc BC (4)
Senior Year Course Load:AP Psych, AP Lit. and Comp., AP Spanish, AP Physics 1, AP Gov.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSF, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award for Social Service

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Redify (founder and president of a social enterprise that contributes to the eradication of poverty in my home city and my home state in India).
Quiz Bowl (9,10,11,12) (Co-Captain) (1st in the State and 13th in the nation)
Mock Trial (10,11,12) (President and Captain)
NHS and some other minuscule things
Summer Activities: Pennsylvania School for Global Entrepreneurship at Lehigh
Summer Economics Research with a Professor at F&M
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App ~7, wrote about rap music and service
BC ~6 thought it was atrocious, wrote about teaching people economics
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: English Teacher 11th grade knew me really well–9
Teacher Rec #2: AP Chem. teacher (11th grade) 7.5 ish
Counselor Rec: Idk, I met with her a lot to talk about college etc. maybe a ~6

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
Intended Major: Econ/Finance at CSOM
State (if domestic applicant): PA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: M
Income Bracket: Idk exactly, not a lot tho
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
None Really
Reflection

Strengths: ACT score, and I guess my ECs
Weaknesses: Pretty bad GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m not really sure, I heard that BC is really big on service so I geared my essays towards that a bit
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: State Schools, everything else is RD

General Comments:
Some advice would be not to freak out when the decisions start coming in, because I saw a bunch of people with better stats getting deferred and rejected, and I was tweaking out a bit. The admission process does seem holistic, so have some faith.

Something else, I don’t know if people agree, but something I think is a good idea is to build a theme in your essays/application. Mine was service to others with knowledge I could gain from Economics and Finance. I’m not really sure if it works at Ivies, and I didn’t get into CSOM honors, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

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Decision: Accepted

CSOM

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 2100 old (didn’t submit)
ACT (breakdown): 34 (36 E 36 R 32 M 31 S)
SAT II: didn’t submit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75 (weighted above 4.0)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): hasn’t come out yet
AP (place score in parenthesis): didn’t submit
Senior Year Course Load: Science Research III Honors; Spanish 5H; AP Biology; AP European History; AP Calc AB; AP Lit; AP Economics; Participation in Government (required)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience: Have worked in same place for 2.5 years (I had just turned 15 when I started); Tutoring
Volunteer/Community service: Equinox, tutoring, volunteer at library, etc
Summer Activities: counselor at tennis camp, a lot of programs related to a field I was passionate about (didn’t apply for that major because I’m not sure about it anymore)
Essays: Common App: 8.5-9/10; wasn’t sure about the topic but it worked out really well in the end. I wrote about my job and how it has affected me (I work at an unconventional place) and how it’s taught me a lot about myself
Teacher Recommendation:
Teacher 1: 9/10, I’m the only person she’s taught all 4 years of high school. In her Science Research Program. She loves me. I read this letter
Teacher 2: 7.5-8/10: APUSH teacher, also loves me, didn’t get to see it though
Counselor Rec: 9/10
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a
Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: undeclared
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Legacy

Reflection: Ecstatic I got in. I felt fairly confident but still, knowing how hard it is to get into BC really stressed me out!! If they come up with enough financial aid, this is definitely one of my top contenders.

Strengths: ACT, course load, essays
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: just who I was as a person. I feel my essay did a really good job at this.
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: they saw who I am as a person
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Accepted Northeastern, Fordham, University of Scranton, SUNY Binghamton, all with scholarships

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Got accepted into MCAS!!!

ACT- 29
SAT (New)- 1350
GPA out of 4.0- 3.9

College level molecular biology research
Lifeguard
Swimming instructor
Volunteer at local library

Gender-Male
Intended Major- Environmental Geosciences
Ethnicity- Caucasian
State- New Jersey
Applied for Financial Aid- Yes
School Type- Public

Essay- 9
Recs- 9
Hooks- Parent attended BC