What are my chances?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Boston College
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<p>Hey i’m a junior in a pretty competitive public school on Long Island. I’m Catholic and caucasion. Please rate my chances at BC… </p>

<p>SAT- (first try)- 680 CR, 630 M, 710 W= 2020/2400 total
GPA- 92.5(uw) 101.65(uw)
Rank- 19/381(top 5 %)</p>

<p>SAT II’s- United States History–taking in June, Math IC–taking in June</p>

<p>AP scores- Euro- 3(10th), Art History -4(10th)
AP’s this year- U.S. History- 5(expected), Lit- 5(expected), Stats- 3(expected)
AP’s going to take senior year- AP Macro, AP Language, AP Spanish, AP Calculus, AP Bio </p>

<p>Total taken/going to take = 10 AP’s</p>

<p>EC’s</p>

<p>Sports- J.V. Football 10, Varsity Football 11 & 12
Clubs- S.E.A. Club Treasurer, Leo Club, D.E.C.A. Club, Newspaper Club, Foreign Language Honor Society, National Honor Society</p>

<p>Senior year- should be: Treasurer of Leo Club, Officer for D.E.C.A. Club, Mock Trial Attorney, Newspaper club editor, Foreign Language Honor Society, and NHS President.</p>

<p>Community Service- not alot outside of my clubs yet, I’ll probably do some work for my church this summer.</p>

<p>Awards- Principles Excellence Award in Mathematics A (9th), Principles Excellence Award in AP U.S. History (11th), Long Island, Computer Science Award Recipient 1st prize (10), umm thats pretty much it so far… </p>

<p>Hook- umm First generation college attendee</p>

<p>Thanks for reading my post, please give me some feedback</p>

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<p>you have a great shot. being first generation college students could help too. just play that up.. But remember nothing is certain with these schools anymore. you might be extremely overqualifies and receive a rejection letter. It is just the luck of the draw. </p>

<p>Good luck I am sure you will get into many great schools</p>

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<p>you got a decent shot, but your stats rely me of a friend of my. He have similar gpa, sat and ap scores-give or take a few points- His EC is roughly around your caliber as well. He apply EA, was deferred to RD, but then got rejected. The truth is that he was white, and with white students, you going to need a wee bit higher scores than. However, one thing that I see you got going for you is sport, stick with it and try to win some award if possible. BC LOVES student athele, you dont have to be spectacular that they would recruit you, but with good gpa and good sport record your chance is really good. GOod luck</p>

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<p>thanks for the feedback so far guys...With my SAT's, that was the first time I took them, I'm hoping to raise the scores significantly when i take the SAT again in october to put me in better shape</p>

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<p>bring your SAT up to at least 2100, and you'd be in pretty good shape. first gen. is def. a big boost. apply EA!</p>

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<p>I'm also the first in my family to go to college. As everyone has said, I'd try to get your test scores up. Beyond that I'd just try to make yourself stand out. I actually disagree with both of Reddune's points. Sure being AHANA (BC's term for minority) can't hurt, but its more about setting yourself apart from the other 20,000 applicants. I don't think being a student-athlete is viewed any better than a student-musician, student-writer, etc. by the admissions people (of course recruited athletes are another story). My point is that your ECs seem a bit all over the place right now. What are you passionate about? What makes you unique? Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>I have to disagree with Heightsman for thinking being AHANA as not being important factors. My highschool is approximately close to BC, so I know more than 100+ people who applying to BC (both from my highschool and surrounding towns). In term of caucasian students and minority students applying, there is a statistical signficant regarding the acceptance rate of AHANA students and caucasian students. Number wise caucasian students have higher number of students accepted. However, percentage wide AHANA students have a greater advantage. Using test of signficant (T-score) there is evidence on a 95% confidence interval that minority students have a benefit cacusian don't (with the consideration that they score similarly in GPA/SAT/ACT, EC is too difficult to compute). I draw my conclusion from this statistic test.
Second, my opinion regarding student athlethe is that it is a bit unusual to have athlete that is stellar academia. Student-musician, student-writer, student-actor, statistically perform better academically (not in all cases, but generally) than student athletes. That why his advantage is in selling himself (yes we all sell ourselves to college to gain admission) as student-athlete is better than selling himself as student-musician. However, I agree with you that his EC is a bit scatter, that why I recommend focus on one thing and since he love sport, take that and go with it</p>

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<p>p.s.
The President, I am assuming you are a guy, if you a girl and play football, ton of kudo toward you in your admission</p>

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<p>yea I'm a guy...thanks for all the feedback...umm with the student-athlete thing, I'm not really good enough to be recruited or anything, especially for a great football program like BC's, I'm more of a student-writer I would say.</p>

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<p>that fine to, in my first post, I said you don't have to be spectacular to be recruited, but as long as you stick to it and do well, it can only improve your chance. One of my best friend is a wrestler/writer/cartoonist/musician which work for him, because he focus on them (didn't even bother joining any clubs) and now he is happily at Brandeis. I wish you alot of luck Pres, dont forget to post what your choice come next spring. Good luck</p>

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<p>keep in mind how competitive BC is getting.... i know 4 people with over 1400s that didnt get in, and had all the ECs, grades, recs, and essays too</p>

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<p>yea i know BC's competitive...I'm thinking I'm going to score significantly higher on my next SAT though, this was the first time I ever took the test</p>