<p>I don't mean to sound conceited, but I was pretty sure I'd be accepted there.</p>
<p>My SAT's:</p>
<p>R-690
M-710
W-800
Lit-700
Math II-530 (in the middle of precalc, woops)
French-440 (get A's in french though)</p>
<p>GPA: 91/100
Class Rank: 17/273</p>
<p>Part time job, FLNHS, an awesome reccomendation, good essays</p>
<p>What kind of qualifications do they expect?</p>
<p>They ran out of coffee that morning, and they felt a little annoyed about it.</p>
<p>…Who knows, really? We can’t tell you.</p>
<p>hey the saledictorian of my school (4.62 gpa) (2380 SAT)
was waitlisted for Stanford.</p>
<p>anything can happen</p>
<p>so much for g’town i guess =/</p>
<p>7evexeL, i really don’t think stanford and boston u can be compared. and stanford is a total crapshoot. my friend with 4.8 gpa, 2400 SAT got rejected early.</p>
<p>Stanford is way too weird to compared to any other school, even the Ivies. Are you in-state for BU?</p>
<p>no, i’m out of state. for uva i have in-state consideration via legacy though. and gtown is my 1st choice after my reaches princeton harvard and penn</p>
<p>^BU is private, in state doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>And, with regard to Stanford, I always get the feeling they give MAJOR consideration to alum.</p>
<p>Calm down bro, I was just waitlisted at BU when I was accepted at northeastern with a 16k a year scholarship while my friend who got spring admission at Northeastern got regular admission at BU.</p>
<p>Two words: Tufts Syndrome</p>
<p>(most likely anyway, that’s how I’m rationalizing it :D)</p>
<p>Thats a question you would ask the admissions department. Maybe they dont need anymore pompous bastards at BU?</p>
<p>How on earth would we know?</p>
<p>Perhaps your SAT IIs raised a red flag. [shrug] Perhaps the adcom who read your app doesn’t like kids like you. Perhaps they didn’t think you were interested. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.</p>
<p>No it wasn’t Tufts Syndrome. Look at the BU decisions thread - there are people that are much more academically qualified and had better extracurriculars than you. Should you have been accepted? I honestly don’t know. I think you should have been but that’s just my opinion. Maybe they thought you weren’t that interested in BU (that happened to my friend last year, waitlisted at BU - never visited or showed any interest, but accepted at Yale). Anyways, good luck with Georgetown and, maybe, if you accept a spot on the waiting list and contact your regional admissions officer, they’ll admit you off the waiting list (assuming the reason that you were waitlisted was a lack of interest).</p>
<p>And, I guess I can sort of second MP07’s point :P.</p>
<p>^Isn’t waitlisting a kid because he doesn’t seem interested (since he/she will probably be accepted by a higher ranked school) exactly what Tufts syndrome is?</p>
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How does that prove anything? Why don’t you visit the Stanford sub-forum and look at the SCEA decisions thread. There are thousands of applicants far superior than the salutatorian that apply to Stanford every year.</p>
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<p>I got his GPA wrong it was 4.7</p>
<p>and what makes it standout is that he got a likely letter from YALE and another student at my school with lower rank got a likely letter from STANFORD.</p>
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<p>The two are subtly different. Tufts Syndrome is yield protection. What motion is talking about is more like the actions of a clingy insecure signficant other.</p>
<p>Well this is just an example of how the student profile makes all the difference… I got accepted to BU just 2 days ago and my SAT scores were not as good as yours, although my SAT II scores were considerably higher and I submitted an extra subject test for the heck of it. I don’t what my GPA is since Ive gone to school in Norway and we don’t calculate that here, but I did get 32 IB points (which is not brilliant, but perfectly decent). I imagine it being my overall profile that got me accepted, because my background is quite unique, but my academic performance has not been terribly impressing the past 2 years… So Im sorry you didn’t get in immediately, but its hard to tell how much grades and scores matter vs background and personality…</p>
<p>Yeah, people here are probably too sensitive to say it but this was 100% yield protection.</p>
<p>We were told by the admissions director at BU that their first screen is for your high school transcript. They get around 17,000 applicants for 4000 slots. They don’t look at any other scores until they’ve sorted for gpa/rank. So it’s not surprising, given the competition, that candidates with high SAT scores could be rejected.</p>