What are my chances? RD

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<p>What are my chances to get into BU regular decision?
4.1 GPA weights
about a 3.8 unweighted
Sats: Math 620 Reading 570 Writing 640
Ranked 8/154 students
All honors and APs- AP Physics, AP Calc, AP English Language, AP English Literature, AP Spanish V
Honor Society President (+2 years)
Student Council President (+2 years)
Softball Captain, 4-year Starter, League and District Allstar
Field Hockey Captain, 3-year starter, League and District Allstar
Yearbook Editor
Future Business Leaders of America (3 years)
Ski Club (3 years)
Organized Special Olympics for first time ever in Mashpee, MA
One of Four Athletes chosen to attend the South Shore League Conference at Guillet Stadium
Concert Choir (4 years) and won honors in New York City</p>

<p>I also have a sister with a disabilty and my mom got very sick last year. Thats what i wrote my essays on.</p>

<p>I am applying in the School of Communications</p>

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<p>why are you even asking...seriosuly people on these forums are exactly like this...</p>

<p>What are my chances...
4.9483 GPA
Helped Find a Cure for Cancer
840 830 810 (Extra Credit on SAT)
...</p>

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<p>so true bashi, except for the fact that this person has incredibly low sat scores</p>

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<p>This persons SAT scores are not incredibly low. If everyone on this forum would take their noses out of the air and actually take a look at the statistics, they would see that this person's SAT's are fine, especially for the BU range and that with extracirriculars and and a GPA like that the SATS will not be a huge significant factor. Her verbal score is in the upper range and her math isnt important if she's applying to communications. Everyone on this board has some agenda. Those that actually go to BU are trying to make their school sound more selective than it actually is, 56%. There's no way 56% of applicants had SATS above 1300. Those who do not go to this school are college-obsessed high school students with 2400 SATS 4.0 GPA's and like Bashi said, have the cure for cancer who have nothing better to do with their time. If you were to look at this forum, you would think that the average SAT score for any school is like a 1590. This is not a representative sample of the actual population of high school students applying to college, it's kids obsessed with it. I submit my stats to get A opinion, not the opinion I'll go by. I've seen so many false rumors on this forum, like the BU school of music only accepts 33%, I spoke with the Admissions officer there, it's actually about 50%. There's a lot of false data here. If you want an opinion, right or wrong, then listen to people on this forum, but if you want to actually know what your chances are, apply and let the admissions office decide, not college students, 1600 SAT high school students, parents of college-obsessed high school students, or worse, parents of college students who used to be college-obsessed high school students.</p>

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<p>I don't think you'll get in, but you definitely have a shot.</p>

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<p>Your grades and extras make you a good candidate though your scores are low for COM. The best predictor of academic success is grades not test scores. It depends on the admissions pool for COM but you certainly have a good chance.</p>

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<p>Is BU selectivity worse than NorthEasternU's? percpaul gives a number (56%) that is higher than NEU's (I think, ~45%).</p>

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<p>For crying out loud, every once in a while this forum, like others, attracts some person with a skewed perspective or an axe to grind. It's sometimes a BC person. There once was a poster who kept howling about Northeastern. And occasionally, we get wackos who want to talk about the infamous "whites only" scholarship; they show up to argue their point of view and disappear to bother other forums where some controversy pops up.</p>

<p>The stats for BU have been referenced about 10 million times. They're right on the admissions website, but not broken down by college, only for all 4 year programs with CGS separated out. The 4 year programs include SHA, ENG, COM, SMG, UNI, CAS, etc. and each has its own standards. It is easier to get into CAS than COM and it's certainly harder to get into UNI, which is the Professor's Program, than COM. These stats are for enrolled students, not the applicant pool.</p>

<p>As for selectivity, those stats are in every guide ever published. As a large school - 4th largest private university, I think - BU must admit a large number of applicants to get their yield. The same is true, for example, of the University of Michigan, a larger public school that is always ranked as one of the top universities in the country. If you need 4,000 undergrads and you have a 50% yield, you would still need to admit 8,000 and if you admitted 33% of your applicants you'd need 24,000 applicants. If you need 1,250 students, that means only 7,500 applicants using the same percentages for yields and admits. See? Size creates a higher percentage of admittees and a lower yield. </p>

<p>When you see a post that talks about raw selectivity, realize that person is pushing a personal agenda or is an idiot about numbers. </p>

<p>All applicant stats should be looked at in context. People who apply to NYU, for example, are more similar to people who apply to BU than those who apply to Oberlin. Self-selection creates a pool. </p>

<p>As to Northeastern, I can say that the pecking order remains intact in the local high schools, including my big one. The local "prestige" fight is still BC versus BU with Tufts sitting on the sidelines. The BC / BU fight is driven by hockey and sharing the B line on the T so it's more of that kind of rivalry.</p>

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<p>Lergnom, the 56% stat is off of the collegeboard website. Secondly, I got the number about the school of fine arts from speaking directly with the admissions officer assigned to the school of fine arts. It's not like I pulled it out of my butt. The SAT score range on the collegeboard site for BU is like an 1150-1350 or somewhere in that range and thats for applicants admitted, not enrolled. That was the whole point to my previous post, that this person does not have low SAT scores for BU at all if you look at the people admitted, NOT enrolled.</p>

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<p>[url=<a href="http://www.bu.edu/admissions/apply/class.html%5DHere%5B/url"&gt;http://www.bu.edu/admissions/apply/class.html]Here[/url&lt;/a&gt;] once again is the link to the BU SAT admissions data for the class of 2010.</p>

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<p>percpaul, I was in a bad mood and apologize. </p>

<p>The BU stats show a "middle 50%" of 1260 - 1400. I'll assume they mean the middle 50% range, meaning that the middle 50% of the admitted students to 4 year programs not including CGS have SAT's in that range. This means some are below and some are above. The original poster above had an 1190, which is below that range. With good grades and EC's, the poster has a reasonable chance to get in.</p>

<p>One problem with guessing about BU is the stats for each program are different and BU doesn't break them out. Are the stats for an engineer the same as someone in Sargent or for a painter in CFA? And how does CAS compare? It's much easier to tell when you have a range for a single entity, like a single college. </p>

<p>It's not even possible to tell if the stats are for matriculating or admitted students.</p>

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<p>uh thanks guy, sorry i didn't mean to start a rivalry. bashi and aliangel need to chill a little bit tho. i wasn't trying to show off or throw myself out there, and i haven't found a cure for cancer yet, hahaha.. i know i have low SAT scores, but i dont test very well. geez. i dont think my SAT scores are "incredibly low", they just aren't up like my grades. i was just wondering if i could get into BU guys. thanks to all those people who actually commented nicely and told me their truthly opinion in a nice, non-stuckup way.</p>

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<p>I think you have a chance... it can go either way. gpa is prettty decent.
good luck and try not to worry!!!</p>