<p>The more I read about BC’s amazing honors programs, the more I want to be a part of it…</p>
<p>Lets say I get into BC off the waitlist (I really want this to happen lol), and I can’t get into the honors program, can I transfer into the Honors Program?</p>
<p>It’s very unlikely that you would get into the Honors Program off the wait list. (Since HP invitees are supposedly the top students, they wouldn’t be on a wait list to begin with.) But if you really impress them freshman year, you could very well be invited into HP as a sophomore. Other students have done that.</p>
<p>students are able to transfer into the honors program, but it’s only by invite. If you are one of the top students in your school, you will be asked to go through a series of interviews before you are accepted into the program.</p>
<p>Dear Colleges00701 : Having spoken with the Honors Program director about this process, perhaps I can share some insights. From the accepted applications, about 250-300 are reviewed for potential inclusion in the Honors Program. Approximately 100 offers in total are made in the first round (with acceptance letters) and a second group is also maintained for additional offers. Please note that these numbers are rough and not carved in stone. The key point here is that the pool is from admitted students, not waitlisted students.</p>
<p>The only way to get into the honors program is to transfer immediately after your freshman year(assuming you were accepted off the wait list). Other than that, no.</p>
<p>You got waitlisted with a 1500/1600 SAT?!? Did you list puppy-kicking as a hobby in your resume?</p>
<p>I am going to go again the grain here and say YES, you can get into the HP if you get off the WL. Although rare, HP does allow for exceptional freshmen who have great credentials, but some how didn’t get invited, to join the program. This is contingent on the number of spots available. HP classes usually have 15, sometime 16, students each. They want to keep a very low ratio of prof/student in HP. If there’s a spot, they will take you since you have good academic. Ask Mark O’Connor (<a href=“mailto:mark.oconnor.1@bc.edu”>mark.oconnor.1@bc.edu</a>) and/or Tim Duket (<a href=“mailto:timothy.duket.1@bc.edu”>timothy.duket.1@bc.edu</a>). I know of two personal examples of freshman who got in HP in freshman year. But you have to contact O’Connor and Duket ASAP once you learned of your WL status. HP has a very fast reading pace. Missing one or two early classes and playing catch up won’t be fun. In fact, HP has summer readings: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.</p>
<p>^^^ no i don’t kick puppies, lol…I don’t know what happened…I thought I’d bring in racial and geogrpaphic diversity…I’ve heard there aren’t very many asians or people from texas at BC…I scored higher than 75 percent of kids that go to bc…but my class rank was top 15 percent with 12 A.P.s and 7 Honors Classes/30 Classes total…I thought I had enough diversity & sat scores to make up for my terrible class rank…My recs were really good…mabye my essays sucked…My gpa was a 3.8 unweighted and a 4.1 weighted…(I took every single honors and A.P. class my school offered, my gpa would have been higher if I had taken a couple of A.PS. and the rest Regular classes)…</p>
<p>I didn’t show any interest in the school, I didn’t visit, email the counselors, talk to school officials, interview…no one from my area, let alone my school applied to BC…</p>
<p>SAT Subject Test Scores(very mediocre)
U.S. History- 750
Math 1- 730(Don’t laugh, I am in Calculus BC rite now, I fell asleep during the test for 10 minutes, becuase it was Early Saturday morning)</p>
<p>AP TEST SCORES(I know these are low) =(</p>
<p>Worl History----10th Grade-----4
U.S. History-----11th Grade -----4
Calculus AB------11th Grade-----4
English Language-----11th Grade—3(I didn’t work hard in this class, until 2 months before the A.P. Test) </p>
<p>Right now, I am not worried about why BC didn’t accept me, but about how I can get into a great school like BC…so many research and study abroad opportunities at BC…not to mention a small student body, and living close to BOSTON!!!..</p>
<p>Actually you don’t bring that much extra racial and geographic diversity, LOL. Last year (Class of 2012), there were 723 Texans that applied to BC (with 187 admitted, although only 36 actually enrolled). And 10% of BC’s undergraduate students are Asian.</p>
<p>Now if you were a Native American from South Dakota…</p>
<p>Seriously though, it is a bit surprising that you weren’t admitted. Certainly with that GPA, those SAT test scores, and the obvious rigor of your honors and AP classes, you certainly are in range. And BC doesn’t track expressed interest or do interviews, so those don’t matter at all. Maybe it really was just the sheer numbers and competitiveness of this year’s applicant pool that did you in.</p>
<p>I wish you luck and hope you get called off the wait list. I think you would be an asset to BC.</p>
<p>^^^ Thanks worried mom…BC is a really great school…I am really interested in their study abroad program with the London School of Economics…Also the small size of BC will let me engage in research with professors and let me publish my work in BC’s Elements Journal(BC’s research newspaper)… <-----These are just some of the things that makes BC 100 times better than my really large state schoool…</p>