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Dear Sandman62 : Regarding the averages listed, it is very strange to see a 3.50 unweighted average with a 4.88 weighted score when only two AP course have been taken. Even with a 10% addition to a base average, your daughter would have come to a 3.85; a 20% addition would have been a 4.20. So there is something not square in these numbers. Normally, a 3.50 average is not a top 5% (or 10% score) in a graduating class, particularly sized as 264 student count suggests. As a pedantic point, your daughter is not in the top 5% strictly speaking, but top 10% which is fine for our purposes.
As you probably already know, the critical reading score on the SAT I is comfortably in the bottom quartile of accepted students while the SAT I math score is in the midpoint range. The writing score is solid although the two way SAT I score of 1280 is weak. Your note does not explain why your daughter would expect a 20-50 point boost in any individual section, but your daughter will need another 80-100 points in total to create any comfort level.
That all said, two AP courses is a realtively weak number in comparison to those in the application pool who will have ten or more, but this will be related to your high school curriculum. If your school is rich in AP offerings and your daughter's course selection was a cut below the AP curriculum, that will tilt the tables seriously against her application. Right now, the profile is missing any history or science information, two major components in the Boston College core courses.
Sports and some extra curriculars are present. Music and fine arts are missing. Volunteerism, community engagement, or a work history could use some description here.
Right now, this is not the type of application that would receive attention in the early admission phase. (See the applicants stats link at the top of this page for more details on the Class of 2013 applicant pool.)
Even in the regular decision pool, this application needs some work to compete with the applicant cohort group. Overall, this feels like a 25% chance of admission in the regular decision pool giving the benefit of the doubt on the averages that we questioned earlier.
Our suggestion is to find some softer opportunities and treat Boston College as a stretch school based on the data presented.
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