What are my chances at Boston College?

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Sex: Female
Race: White
Home: New York
Private School
Grades: B+/A- range
ACT: 32
SAT II US History: 720
SAT II Lit: 740
Unweighted GPA: 3.43 (my school doesn’t have weighted GPAs, Honors, or APs)

Junior Classes: Art History, Modern World History, Shakespeare, African Lit, Advanced Statistics, Biology, and Latin

Senior Classes: European History, Global Politics, Creative Writing, Historical Lit, Macroeconomics, Latin, and Advanced Art

Awards:
Scholastic Gold Key winner for Art (painting)
Scholastic Gold Key winner for Art (drawing)
Scholastic Gold Key winner for Art (drawing)

ECs: Newspaper cartoonist
Yearbook - President
Leadership Club - Vice President
Feminist Club
Varsity Track
Varsity Lacrosse - defender, not many at my school

Volunteering: Working with children with autism
Work Experience: Internship at an art gallery

Are there schools that I might have a better shot at?

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Congrats on the success in school. And a lot will depend on your total package. You would be a serious candidate but I would personally say it will be the 27 percent level. 2 or 3 with your stats out of ten will get an acceptance. This is the overall admit rate. The avg student last year was 33 1458 sat. You are in the running for sure but would not have expectations get ahead of the numbers.

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Note that SAT 1448 and ACT 33 are the averages for the pool of admitted students for class of 2022. For students who actually enrolled in the Class of 2022, the averages are SAT 1392, ACT 32. https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/announcements/mahoney.html

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Is there any way you suggest I improve my profile? I’m only a junior and trying to get an idea of where I stand in terms of admissions.

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My son was accepted last year early action and as a legacy. He had a 3.7 uw and 32 ACT. May help to bring up your gpa and write an essay that makes you stand out. If your planning a business major I would consider Bentley Univ too.

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As evergreen noted. I choose to look at admitted students profile since those are the only who can attend. Also the averages include urm. Legacies development cases and a large pool of d 1 admitted athletes. These groups traditionally have lower statistical profiles.

To answer your question you should strive for a good fall “grade wise”, solid teacher recs and your essay and supplements. You should keep up the great work and spread your options across the many great schools out there. You’ll have great choices in the end.

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More A’s, and lots of 'em. Approx. 85% of BC’s students were in the top decile of their HS class, and I’m guessing a 3.43 is not close to top decile at your HS.

What about Math? No math this year or next? Have you already completed Calculus? AP Stats?