<p>OK. Im a Junior at a small private school in Georgia. My stats are as follows:
SAT MATH: 660
SAT CR: 670
SAT WR: 610
SAT TOTAL: 1940 ( i will take once more with hopes to break 2k. I also plan to take SAT2s in LIT, US, and LATIN and make around 700 on each… maybe less)
UW GPA: 4.0
AP: EURO, US, LIT, LANG, GOV, CALC (all other classes honors)(I also have 4 years of latin)
RANK: school doesn’t rank… I guess Im in the top 15% or so…idk
EC: 2 years of baseball, sing in: Chorus, Boys Quartet, and First Presbyterian Youth Ensemble, play guitar, piano, harmonica, started and lead a band that does the worship service in chapel once a week for 300 students and faculty, NHS, lead the activities committee of environmental club, on the leadership team at my youth group very involved with church, scattered volunteering including tutoring, nursing home visits, and manual labor, summer job for three years, attended a six week summer program at Emory where i got As in an econ class and a ethics class(real classes).</p>
<p>OK. so I know my SATs are weak but do I have a chance at boston college?</p>
<p>Also i want to study philosophy and economics with plans to go to a top notch grad school or a T-14 law school is bc a good choice? IF so why? If not what are some other suggestions.</p>
<p>things to keep in mind: im white, upper-middle, conservative</p>
<p>Yeah, you have a chance of getting in. It’s a good place to study philosophy and economics. Note that BC is Catholic, but religion is very low-key, so whether you’re Catholic, non-Catholic Christian, non-Christian religious, or an atheist, you’ll be able to fit in. BC is in New England, so a lot of its grads apply to grad and professional schools in the Northeast, where a lot of the top law schools are. They are familiar with BC, and are have a good understanding of the qualities of its alumni.</p>
<p>BC is not known as a school with grade deflation, but the standard workload is 5 classes per semester, whereas at a lot of comparable schools it’s 4 classes per semester. So it’s a good place to double-major, but the workload of 5 courses might sometimes be a bit more arduous than if you’re taking 4 classes elsewhere. </p>
<p>Similar schools that are a bit easier to get into: Lehigh, Wake Forest, Fordham, Marquette, Santa Clara, U of Miami, Holy Cross, Syracuse, Bucknell, Tulane.</p>
<p>Tulane is a little easier to get into than BC. Used to be a bigger gap, but Tulane admissions has gotten tighter as quality of apps has risen. Being from the south might be a slight advantage at BC, since pluraiity of apps, if not the majority, are from the Northeast/mid_Atlantic regions.</p>
<p>Dear stustu : Be sure when you construct your listing of your top ten to fifteen schools that you have a good spread of stretch schools, expected schools, and safety schools. Your board scores are 100 points below Boston College’s midpoint (2060) and you are outside the top 10% of your High School class. (Significant as 85% of students enrolled at BC at Top 10% and 97% are Top 25%.) Read this year’s acceptance/rejection thread and you will start to see the number of quality students, like yourself, with board scores into the 2200 range being waitlisted. Be sure to focus on those items which positively differentiate your application from the pack. Best of luck as the next group of students begins their college chase!</p>