***Official Decision Thread Class of 2015***

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston University
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<p>Accepted!</p>

<p>SAT: 2000 (M710, W690, CR600)
SAT II: Bio E-630, Math 2-750
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.65
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ~Top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB (4)
Senior Year Course Load: Advanced English, Honors Engineering, Chorus, Advanced Physics (Semester 1), Painting (Semester 2), Calculus 2 at University of Connecticut (Semester 1), Multivariable Calculus @ UConn (Semester 2), Roman Civilization @ UConn (Semester 2)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Cross Country (Varsity, All-Academic Team), Drama, Peer Natural Helpers (Elected Support Group), Chorus (Treasurer), Blood Drive (Student Coordinator), Mu Alpha Theta-Math Honors (Vice-President), National Honors, Track & Field, Tri-M Music Honors, Cool-It Team, Orchestra
Job/Work Experience: Town Community Center Lifeguard, Summer Day Camp Lifeguard and Counselor, Elementary School After-School Program Teacher
Volunteer/Community Service: Local Hospital
Essays: Decent
Teacher Recommendation: 1 was very cookie-cutter, the other was from my Advanced Biology Teacher/Blood Drive Coordinator who I’ve known all 4 years of high school and loves me.
Counselor Rec: Pretty good, I assume.
Interview: None</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Under $40,000 (single parent)</p>

<p>-Reflection-
Strengths: Extra-Curriculars, Work/Volunteer Experience, kind of GPA
Weaknesses: SAT Scores
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Well-rounded?
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to UConn, Accepted to Penn State, Accepted to University of Rochester, Waitlisted to RPI
General Comments: I’m still not entirely sure where I will be going, but I am crossing my fingers that I will become a member of BU Class of 2015 next year!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to college of engineering - Biomedical engineering</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR-640, M-690, W-610
[</em>] ACT: 28
[<em>] SAT II: Bio(M)-770, Math II-670
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.8
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 17th /116
[</em>] AP: Bio (5), Studio Art (5), Lang&Comp (4)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: Study Abroad!!!
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Best portfolio Award in Fine arts for Regional Scholastics in NY, regional Gold keys…, Silver Key at national Scholastic competition.</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Created Portrait photography busines, other temporary jobs…
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Some, but not a lot
[</em>] Summer Activities: work
[<em>] Essays: Pretty good, quite personal.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: 2 really good letters
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good
[</em>] Additional Rec:</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: I applied long after submitting my app. (after i realized i could be eligible)
[</em>] Intended Major: Biomedical engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: American (haha, jk im white)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: not sure
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[li] Why you think you were accepted: Drastic improvement in grades in Junior year, Study abroad, good essay, good letters of rec.[/li][/ul]General Comments: I probably wont go here, but I read for BME you don’t actually get into the program until your sophomore year… not sure exactly about the whole system</p>

63

<p>Decision: Accepted to CAS</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: Didn’t send
SAT IIs: Chem 700, Math I 750
ACT: 32
GPA: 3.79 UW
Rank: 31 of 311
Other stats:
Subjective:
Essays (topic?): how I recognized my interest in surgery by volunteering with retired horses.
ECs: editor-in-chief of school newspaper, editor of yearbook, editor of fine arts magazine, secretary of community service org., section leader of orchestra, vice-president of national honor society and over 500 hours community service in past year at horse farm.
Teacher Recs: Probably great.*
Counselor Rec: Probably great.*
Hook (if any): Immigrated from the UK when I was 8.
Location/Person: CT
State or Country: USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female*</p>

64

<p>Accepted</p>

<ul>
<li>ACT: 29</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): approx 4.06 weighted</li>
<li><p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 16/247
Subjective:</p></li>
<li><p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): student council, Junior Statesmen of America, drama club, playing in a synth/punk/garage band since 7th grade</p></li>
<li><p>Job/Work Experience: none</p></li>
<li><p>Volunteer/Community service: cat shelter, summer camp grounds-keeping </p></li>
<li><p>Essays: pretty good. Also showed interest and praised BU’s status as a research university</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher Recommendation: One super great-described my personality and academic ability, one good</p></li>
<li><p>Counselor Rec: none, counselors are horrible</p></li>
<li><p>Intended Major: Psych or Bio</p></li>
<li><p>State (if domestic applicant): Ohio</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: White</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Female</p></li>
<li><p>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none I can think of</p></li>
</ul>

65

<p>Decision: Accepted to COM</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): CR-600, M-590, W-630
ACT:<br>
SAT II: Lit - 650 Math I - 600
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.45
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/60
Senior Year Course Load: Pretty tough, not as bad as Junior year though. More focused on communications related classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): FBLA Nationals: 2nd place in Video Production this past year! I haven’t really won any other national/huge awards</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Drama/theatre, Student Government, FBLA, Youth and Governement, NHS, etc.
Job/Work Experience: Tour Guide at an Amusement park, Some work w/ my dad’s Marketing business and website, babysitting
Volunteer/Community service: Fair amount, 200+
Summer Activities: work/babysitting
Essays: Pretty good. Seeing as I applied for Journalism, I’m not ashamed to say that I have a way with words
Teacher Recommendation: So lucky to have gotten GREAT recs! very personal and full of praise :slight_smile:
Counselor Rec: fair – not too personal
Additional Rec: </p>

<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes. Got sucky, crappy aid. By some miracle I had a FASFA EFC of $0… yet nothing but federal pell grant/loans. Appealing first thing monday morning
Intended Major: Journalism… but may switch to comm/Public Relations
State (if domestic applicant): NH
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White as can be haha
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: My mom (whom I live with) has been unemployed for nearly a year, and made about $40,000 before<br>
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: Writing (in main and supplement essays) & teacher rec.
Weaknesses: SAT score… obviously
Why you think you were accepted: your guess is as good as mine haha
General Comments: I’m shocked I got into COM with my low SAT score… I thought I would get deferred to CGS!!! The only thing holding me back is the financial aid… which is obviousy a huge factor with my custodial parent being unemployed. My dad can pay $10,000 + the $11,000 in fed money (including stafford loans) won’t cut it. I knew my SAT score was bad… but I thought that was my only true flaw. I thought they’d at least give me SOMETHING w/ and EFC of $0.
If I don’t get at least $15,000 more in scholarships/grants, there’s no way I can do it. $50k for four years on loans? NO WAY</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
ACT 33
SAT II: 760 Chemistry, 750 Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.9
Weighted GPA:4.18
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):3/173
AP (place score in parentheses):Chemistry(4)
Senior Year Course Load:very strong for my school: AP Calc, AP Physics, and AP English and a college class</p>

<p>Subjective:[list]
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):Figure Skating, Cross Country(senior co-captian), Ski team, Wayfarer Literary Magazine Layout Board, Math team
Job/Work Experience: Cashier at Local Grocery Store
Volunteer/Community service:Founded service project that collects produce for food pantries, Buddy Up Mentoring, 1 week service trip to rural Peru
Essays:Pretty good considering I am not the world’s best writer. Common App Essay: about involvment in figure skating.
Teacher Recommendation #1:good
Teacher Recommendation #2:good
Counselor Rec:did not see. Questionable because my counseler is a total airhead!
Additional Rec:very good(about service work and leadership)</p>

<p>Other[list]
State (if domestic applicant):WI
School Type: small private
Ethnicity:White
Gender:F
Income Bracket: high
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):none</p>

<p>Reflection[list]
[<em>]Strengths:extracurriculars and essays maybe
[</em>]Weaknesses:counselor rec, not the best test scores, nothing excessively remarkable</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: accepted to University of Pittsburgh, UVa, and Johns Hopkins(with Hodson Scholarship). Waitlisted at WashU. I really liked BU but i will probably attend Hopkins. Congrats to everyone who got accepted!! and to those that didn’t good luck wherever you end up!</p>

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<p>Objective: </p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1970</li>
<li>GPA (out of 4.0): 3.42</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school doesn’t rank</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Yearbook (Editor in Chief)
-Literary Magazine
-Africa Task Force- we raise money for our sister school in Uganda
-Stage Crew</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Babysitting since seventh grade</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service:
-Teacher’s assistant at the summer camp for inner city kids that my school runs
-Volunteer/Pilgrim on a Pilgrimage to Lourdes, France in 2010</li>
<li>Essays: I think that they were pretty good… My main essay was creative and my BU specific essay was well written</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: I don’t know, I never read them, I hope they were good!</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: I didn’t read that either</li>
</ul>

<p>Other:</p>

<ul>
<li>Intended Major: Journalism</li>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut</li>
<li>School Type: Private, all girls, competitive</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</li>
</ul>

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<p>Accepted SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT </p>

<p>28 act
3.1 gpa (school doesn’t calculate I did)
GREAT ECS/ESSAYS</p>

<p>just goes to show good ecs and essays can go a long way.</p>

<p>Also 41k fin aid package 38 in grants.</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted?!?
School: CAS</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 620CR 690M 760W (2070 in total)</li>
<li>SAT II: 740 Biology</li>
<li>Weighted GPA: 4.55</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis) did not send ap scores</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, Physics Honors, AP Psychology, Sociology (1/2 year), English Honors, Graphic Design (1/2 year), Chorus, Fitness (1/2 year), Creative Cooking (1/2 year)…Senior year is going crappy for me so i’m just happy i got in!</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honor Society, indoor and outdoor track, cross country, class Treasurer</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: hospital, art TA</li>
<li>Essays: um i think i wrote pretty crappy supps haha i turned them in like on the last possible date!</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: maybe ok?</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: probably bad because i just got a new counselor this year. who knows nothing about me…probably why i got deferred from UMich :/</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): MA</li>
<li>School Type: public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian </li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): um nothing really</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection: surprised and curious why.</p>

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<p>Accepted to CAS
2250 SAT 96 GPA
was top 10%, PA public school
University scholar - half tuition
too expensive to attend.
but nice all the same :)</p>

71

<p>REJECTED (weird…)</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 2240</li>
<li>SAT2s: 740, 720</li>
<li>APs: 8</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Lots of music stuff - all state, youth chorales, section leader in school choirs, school band, competitive summer programs, lots of theater; Model UN (vice president), debate club, National Honor Society; varsity crew - 4 years (scholar-athlete, most essential athlete)</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: 140 hours (charity fundraiser, hospital volunteer, math tutor, library)</li>
<li>Summer Activities: Prestigious music program, 2 years</li>
<li>Essays: Solid</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: Good, I assume</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Assuming good?[/list]
Other[list]</li>
<li>Intended Major: International Relations & Voice Education</li>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): NY</li>
<li>School Type: Competitive public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None </li>
</ul>

<p>I’m sorry but I’m a little confused as to how I got rejected. Probably ending up at the Eastman School of Music with double-degree at U of Rochester</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to College of Arts and Science</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 1890 total with Math: 660 Writing: 620 Critical Reading: 610

  • ACT: N/A
  • SAT II: US History: 640 Math 2: 600
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.8 Maybe? My school doesn’t use the 4.0 system… =\
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A (school doesn’t do rank)
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t send! But I’ve taken AP U.S. History and AP Government
  • IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A (school doesn’t have IB classes)
  • Senior Year Course Load: AP Eng, AP Calc AB, AP Chem, Spanish 7 (jumped a level, I’ve been skipping levels since I began taking Spanish in the 9th grade…), Film
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Poetry Out Loud 3rd place in school, Kenyon book award, national honor society, posse semi-finalist, high honors, random school awards
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Junior State of America (random position, 10-12 grades), Anime Club (co-founder, 11-12), Japanese lessons (10-11), Varsity Softball Player (10 - 12), Club Volleyball (10-12), Senior Trip/Prom Committee (10-12), and sewing (9 - 12).

  • Job/Work Experience: Teen Job at a local non-profit (10-12 grades)
  • Volunteer/Community service: internship at a State Senator office (12), camp counselor at a local Art Day camp (9-10), Community service in Guatemala with school (11),
  • Summer Activities: Teen job (mentioned above), internship, camp counselor
  • Essays: I guess they were good… My essay was unique! =)
  • Teacher Recommendation: I was told they were good
  • Counselor Rec: I think it was good!
  • Additional Rec: I sent an extra rec from my supervisor at my job and I read it and it was good! =)
  • Interview: Did not interview
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

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

  • Country (if international applicant): USA
  • School Type: Charter, small!
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Gender: Female
  • Income Bracket: 80 K
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Parent works at BU (not as a professor)
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: Extracurricular activities and GPA

  • Weaknesses: SAT and SAT II
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My GPA, SAT, ECs…
  • Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Agnes Scott College, Mount Holyoke College, Bryn Mawr College, Denison University. Waitlisted: Grinnell College, Wellesley College, Carleton College. Rejected: Vassar College, Scripps College
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments:
I’m happy I got in, I got GREAT financial aid because of tuition remission, but I probably won’t go because I’m not a fan of the hugeness of the school and the campus… But I’m still going to an admitted student day because I might randomly fall in love and not leave my parents in debt =)</p>

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<p>Decision: WAITLISTED</p>

<p>I already committed to UW-Madison before I even found out my decision from BU, but I am shocked to say the least. I got into UW-Madison and U of M Ann Arbor so I have no clue what BU was looking for this year…</p>

<p>ACT: 28
GPA: 3.67 unweighted 3.85 weighted
Classes: 3 APs this year
1st semester grades: 5 A’s, 1 B+
Lots of leadership experiences and involved in a variety of activities…</p>

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<p>I never thought I’d want to go to a city school, but I am so excited about being accepted here!!!</p>

<p>ACT:29
GPA: 3.96 (out of 4.0)
Class rank: #25 out of 311
Extracurriculars: captain of Nordic Ski Team, varsity skier, French exchange trip (fluent in French), Madagascar World Challenge Leadership trip, Select Choir, private vocal instruction, a lot of community service activities</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2110 (780 Math, 670 Writing, 660 Reading)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Spanish, 770 Math II, 650 Literature, 660 French
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.812 Weighted: 6.112
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 4%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): (5) AP CAL AB, (3) AP English Language, (4) AP French, (5) AP Spanish
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Government, AP Economics, AP English Literature, AP Environmental Science, Art (required), Yearbook, Internship, AP Calculus BC
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Dartmouth Book Award, 4th Place Business Math (FBLA-District), Honorable Mention Model UN, AP Scholar, Teacher’s Choice for Math, Silver Knight Nominee for Mathematics</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): VP, Secretary, and Sergeant of Arms of Class of 2011, Secretary of Mu Alpha Theta (sponsor wrote rec), President of French Honor Society, Social Studies Honor Society (sponsor wrote rec), Spanish Honor Society, National Honor Society, Learning Mandarin, Fluent in French and Spanish, Volleyball, Cheerleading, Crew, Peer Mediator, Heritage Panelist, HIV/AIDS Educator, EESAC (Educational Excellence School Advisory Council) Representative
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Psychology Firm, Language tutor, Math tutor, Chiropractor’s Office
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Teach Catechism in Church (4 years), Shake-A-Leg (children with disabilities), Teens for Jeans (collected over 500 jeans for Haiti), Organized for a Holocaust survivor speak to the school
[</em>] Summer Activities: Princeton JSA Summer (International Relations), Yale Quest Bridge Conference, Dual-Enrollment Courses (Psychology, Mandarin, Acting, Nutrition-all As), Acting at the Actor’s Playhouse (main part in a play)
[<em>] Essays: Really good! Were checked by head of English department and she loved them!
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Great! Know teachers very well!
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Fantastic :slight_smile:
[</em>] Additional Rec: No
[li] Interview: None Offered</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Finance
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL (see below)
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Peru, living in US
[<em>] School Type: Magnet, in top 60 schools in nation
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender:Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: <25k</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Math, ECs
[</em>] Weaknesses: Test Scores
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[</em>] Where else have you been accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted: NYU, BU, UF, UM, USC, Fordham
Rejected: Rice, UVA, Vanderbilt (but conditionally because I am international, and if I can prove to them that I can finance my education they will accept me [they explicitly said so in my letters]), Stanford
Waitlisted: Carnegie Mellon, UChicago (I was waitlisted for the same reason I was rejected by the above mentioned schools)
[*] What would you have done differently?: Take the SAT more seriously[/ul]</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to Engineering (mech)</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): CR-700, M-800, W-740 11e
SAT II: Physics 730, Math II-790
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.4
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): all we know is our quintile, i’m in bottom of the 1st
AP: AB(5) BC(5) Physics B(3) Euro(3) Stats(4) Lang(4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Lit, AP Comp Sci, Multivariable Calc/Lin Alg, Spanish III Honors
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): no academic awards outside of school
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): varsity swim 4 years(capt 1 yr), xc jv1 year, v 1 year, piano, trumpet, culture club, engineering club
Job/Work Experience: lifeguard
Volunteer/Community service: about 200 hrs total, daycare
Summer Activities: astrophysics research
Essays: bs’ed them on new year’s eve at 4am =( 6/10?
Teacher Recommendation: dunno
Counselor Rec: dunno
Additional Rec: prof i did astro work with</p>

<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yee. 20k total.
Intended Major: either mech or elec
State (if domestic applicant): MA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private
Ethnicity: asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 60-80l?
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen
Reflection
Strengths:decent sat, courseload
Weaknesses:low ap’s, not perfect sat II’s, GPA ■■■
Why you think you were accepted: everything fit?
General Comments: Sooo if you’ve read all the way down here, I’d really like one of those “it doesnt matter where you go, but what you do while you’re there” speeches. I didn’t get into any of my match or reach schools. The only 4 schools I got into were bu, bc, wpi, and northeastern. Because I want to major in engineering, I can’t really go to bc. out of the remaining 3, bu seems like the best. I spent my whole life wanting to go to schools like mit or the ivies. I got rejected by 11 total. (8 ivies, stanford, mit, caltech). my supposed matches, cmu and jhu, i got rejected from as well. I understand that my stats may be subpar to what is needed for those schools, but I never thought I’d have to go to BU. No offense to any current BU students, but I would really love someone to convince me that BU is not a bad school at all and that I will have the same opportunities as those MIT kids across the street towards whom I will always be bitter. I feel so down…</p>

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<p>I am sorry that you didn’t get in your dream schools. Unfortunately, stuff like this happens in life. It is a major disappointment, but now you must pick yourself up and move forward. It is what you do with the hand you are dealt that is important. From what you wrote, you should be grateful that you got into BU. By your own admission, you put forth little effort in your essays. If you read through these boards, you will see that many kids with stats like yours got rejected. I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason. Maybe BU is where you are meant to be, or maybe not. </p>

<p>Now if I were in your shoes, with a perspective of 35 additional years on this earth, I would email a couple of engineering professors and ask some specific questions. I would join the BU Class of 2015 Facebook page and message a couple of the engineering majors who have posted there offering to help kids who are trying to make a decision. I assume that you have visited BU, but if you are close enough, I would visit again. And as far as reputation, it seems like people from MA have a worse opinion of BU than people from other parts of the country. Maybe it is true that familiarity breeds contempt. But BU is a great school, with plenty of opportunies. Your education is what you make of it. </p>

<p>Best of luck to you!</p>

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</p>

<p>My guess is that you will be one of the many BU students who complain about grade deflation because you feel that you “deserve” a higher GPA given that BU is not really a top school.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted =] to Engineering</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 770CR 750M 670W</li>
<li>SAT II: Math 2: 690 World History: 640 Physics: 610</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): US Gov’t & Politics (4), World History (4), Calculus AB (5), English Lang (3), currently taking US History, Calc BC, Physics: Mechanics, and English Lit</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: EnglishLit AP, AP US History, Intern/Mentor, Physics C: Mechanics, Calc BC AP</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): High School Dance Company: 4 years, captain senior year; Dance outside of school: 10 years, Math Team: 2 years; National Honor Society: 2 years</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: n/a</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: tutoring and various others, about 200 I think</li>
<li>Essays: good. Nothing exceptional but fairly strong</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: Probably both very strong, haven’t seen them</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: unknown. Counselors at my school have a very weak relationship with their students</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): MD</li>
<li>School Type: public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
<li>Income Bracket: aid needed</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none really. First generation American, but parents went to college in Russia</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: Expressed interest in the school, visited, SATs? kind of
Weaknesses: SAT II’s, maybe essays and counselor reccs?
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Everything worked out
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted UMCP, Pitt, Waitlisted Vanderbilt, Davidson. Rejected Duke</p>

<p>Does anyone know if BU has already released all the merit scholarships or if more will be released later?</p>