Our email arrived at about 6:40 EST.
Exactly 6:00 pm EST
@Liana330 thanks! Now the hard part!
Yes, we are so excited, but know that we have to carefully review the financial aid offer tomorrow! BC was SO our daughter’s first choice and we’ve literally never seen her this affected by anything in 18 years! 
@Liana330 same situation here. I can’t tell you home many times she has visited campus for various reasons. I think this entire process has been a roller coaster for us all.
Students accepted off the wait list have to live in a “forced triple” room. Not sure I like BC treating WL kids like second-class citizens.
** Pursuant to its authority under Chapter II of the Massachusetts Housing Code, minimum standards of fitness for human habitation (105 CMR 410.100), the city of Newton Health and Human Services Department has granted a variance to the minimum square footage requirements (105 CMR 410.400) to allow specific rooms to be used as triples.
@whr2go15 where are you getting this info from?
and from the offer letter
CAMPUS HOUSING INFORMATION
Due to the anticipated size of our first-year class and our commitments to continuing students, you will likely begin the academic year in a forced triple room accommodation in our residence halls.
In a forced triple, room area is 192 sq feet for 3 people - yielding 64 sq ft per person. To put into context, a single person in a federal supermax prison gets 84 sq feet, so BC students get about 30% less than the convict.
@DevlinHall208 Do you have any idea what date you will post on this forum if there will be no more taken off the waitlist or if you will make future offers? Or will emails be sent to waitlist candidates telling them that Boston College is no longer making offers this year?
From the Boston College Admission Facebook page, from late yesterday, May 13:
Welcome to the newest members of #BC2019! Offers to students on the wait list were just e-mailed. Future activity is to be determined.
Article about forced triple -
http://bcgavel.com/2014/08/02/threes-company-too-the-forced-triple/
Wow. Are students accepted off the WL put into a forced triple?? That could make the student feel inferior, and the original two roommates may not be so “accepting”…??
JerseyMomma yes that is the case according to the letter. Also makes me wonder what the housing situation will look like for the other two years on campus.
@Massmom2015 We do not have a specific date on which we plan to close the wait list. We intend to have it resolved by the end of May. An e-mail will be sent to all students on the wait list when we make the decision to close it.
On the topic of forced triples, approximately 15% of first-year students live in forced triples. Any student in a forced triple is given a stipend that lowers their room & board cost (paid to the individual(s) footing the bill). It also guarantees living on Upper Campus, which is why we see a number of incoming students elect to live in a forced triple when filling out their housing form. Lastly, the Office of Residential Life works throughout the year to de-triple students.
Please call our office (617 552 3100) or the Office of Residential Life (617 552 3060) with questions or concerns.
fwiw: UCLA housing is nearly all ‘forced triples’ for Frosh, so it ain’t unusual. While technically ‘temporary’, the Uni is rebuilding dorms one-by-one so it will take a long while (aka many years).
And as Devlin Hall notes, Res Life spends the first weeks of every semester de-tripling as many as possible. (Some students may extend study abroad, for example, and open up a bed spot.) Interestingly, my D said that some of her friends who were tripled opted to keep the triple even when Res Life offered an option to move to a double. They liked their roomies/floor and wanted to keep it going. (But then probably easier for guys…)
edited to respond to whr: after Frosh year, all students enter a lottery and pick a room from what is still available. Essentially, a group of students decides to live together for Soph year and then bid on a room based on the highest lottery number of their group. Sohs get lowest housing priority.