Hey guys!! Post your stats, situation, insights, or anything regarding your BC Fall 2015 Transfer Application. Would be happy to hear about all experiences. Also, I strongly recommend you guys to post stats upon your decisions if you do not plan to share it now. Thank you and good luck to you all!
I’m applying to CSOM
My Stats
Current College: University of Miami
College GPA: 3.76
High School GPA: 3.54 UW 4.01 W
ACT: 33
2 APs
EC:
High School
Varsity swimmer in high school
Worked through high school
Student Representative in School Committee meetings (local government)
College
Work at the calling center at UM
Lifeguard at UM
Publicist for a volunteering club
Member of “Women in Business” club
Member of “Students Helping Animals” club
And I think my essay and supplement is pretty good!
Any thoughts on my chances?
Hey, I’m also applying for the fall semester, here’s my stats
Current school: SDSU, Finance Major
Current year: Sophomore(will be a junior transfer)
Applying to:CSOM
GPA: 3.97.(only one A- in a required humanities class about movies) 4.0 in major classes
EC’s:
- SDSU Finance and Investment Society,
- Golf team in high school(wasn’t sure whether this would help but i put it there anyways)
- SDSU Martial Arts Club
- I worked part time in college at Big 5
I also have 2 good letters of rec from my college professors, both coming from business related classes(business law and MIS)
@khan96 your stats look good, GPA is above average and you have good EC’s
Hey guys! I am also applying to BC as a Fall 2015 transfer, was just wondering if you all had gotten emails from BC yet confirming that they’d received your application/materials? I didn’t submit my application until Saturday (the 14th), but I got an email from Tufts almost immediately after submitting the Common App.
I’m probably just being paranoid but I wanted to make sure my app hadn’t gotten lost in cyberspace or something…
just an update: I’m actually applying to Arts and Sciences
sorry to spam this thread with the same question, but have you guys gotten emails from BC confirming that they’re received your application? I still haven’t 
should I call admissions to check?
I applied a while ago. If you just submitted your application it may take a while for them to process it. There is no harm in emailing them though.
Hey all! I’m a hopeful BC transfer. I applied into the College of Arts and Science as a Political Science major. I currently attend a large state school and am a freshman. Here are my stats
Highschool:
-GPA: (from what I remember) around a 3.7/5.0 scale (I was top 18% of my class and primarily took honors and AP courses)
-Leadership positions: Student Body President, NHS Treasurer, Speech and Debate Co-President (also a captain for 3 years), Co-founder and VP of French Club
-ACT: 30
-Activities: Speech and Debate (all four years), student council (all four years), NHS (sophomore-senior year), French Club (junior-senior year), theatre (junior-senior year)
-Honors: two time speech and debate state finalist, speech and debate national octafinalist, district champion in speech and debate, Glory of Missouri Award recipient, school pride award recipient
My Common App essay talks about my experiences growing up as an Arab-American in a post-9/11 world and how I’ve used my negative experiences to help shape me as an individual and were influential in my social activism and involvement in my community.
My supplement was the option about which social, political, or cultural issue is important to you and why. I wrote about Ferguson because I live about 10 minutes away from it so it heavily impacted by community and also because it was the spark of this generation’s civil rights movement. It helped me find my voice in my community and on my school’s campus, which I initially felt was lost because I go to a school with around 36k students.
College:
-GPA: 3.8 (first semester I took 15 credit hours)
-Activities: Student government, leadership program, social justice clubs/orgs (I won’t name them since they have my university’s name in them).
-I’ve been heavily involved in speaking out on social justice issues that have risen on campus, nation wide, and globally. Several articles have been published quoting my statements and activism.
^wow, your Ferguson essay sounds incredible. I’m really into social justice too! maybe we’ll get involved together on campus! 
my stats are:
coming from an all women’s LAC
-college gpa 3.75 (upward trend, tho)
-applied to the lynch school of ed@bc, altho I wasn’t studying ed at my old school (wrote my essay about how my experience teaching during the yea off I’m in now helped me find my passion, hopefully the change of majors won’t hurt me because I want to go to lynch sooo bad)
-2 social justice orgs (not as much involvement as I had in HS, bc in college there were fewer opportunities), tour guide, some volunteering, and was an RA
-hs: 3.9ish gpa out of 5 (I think?) and 2230 sat
I can’t stand waiting until may/june to hear, ahhh!
Hey guys! So, I was a little confused on something. I was reading that in previous years most transfer applicants received their decision on May 15… however, when I was looking at the Boston College Admissions Twitter (BC_Admission), they tweeted out to a student on 3/20/15 “Fall Transfer applicants hear via e-mail. It won’t be for another few weeks.” This tweet is implying that the decisions would be sent out in mid April. Thoughts?
^that’s strange, hopefuleagle…as far as I know it really isn’t possible for them to get them out before mid-May, so I’m guessing a student running the Twitter just spaced out? but it would certainly be a nice surprise if we only had a few more weeks to wait, haha
@hopefulEAGLE - That tweet was a mistake. The notification date of May 15 is correct.
Dear kchan96, sikcjor, transferyas, and all : Often times, students find is very difficult to articulate “Why BC?” in their applications while still High School seniors. This question becomes even more difficult when already attending another institution since you are typically highlighting substantial achievements in your current college setting leaving one to ask, “Why would this student be unhappy now and why would they suddenly be happy at Boston College?”
Your ability to explain what has changed in your educational outlook and why Boston College fills that gap is incredibly important. Even with tremendous essays and grades, transfer slots have been notoriously thin. Expect that you must be at the very top end of your current college class (even above the Top 10% number) and have identified something at Boston College that is not available in your current program. Statements such as “I want to go to Lynch so bad” is an emotional response to that call, but does not provide any true insight on your reasoning. I am also not sure that standard High School type essays (racial challenges, cultural issues) are sufficient.
My feeling is that you need to weave the fact that something is missing from your current college education, identify why BC closes that gap, express how you will leverage that advantage at BC, and how you would use that opportunity to give back to the BC Community.
Best wishes to you all and good luck in this process.
Where is everyone else applying from?
Massachusetts
Florida, but I’m a Massachusetts resident.
Are we going to be hearing back right on May 15th or could it be before or after then?
@kchan96 i think we will all hear back May 15th
sorry if this has already been asked before, but do you know if our decisions will be coming by mail or online? i know bc is usually a hard copy school but they did online decisions for freshman applicants this year