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Am I at competitive for CSOM
rchugh
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Hello! I know that chance me questions are a bit annoying but I want to know if I'm at least competitive for Csom.
Indian Male DE resident (goes to private school)
ACT (32) Superscore maybe 33 (hopefully)
GPA 4.17 (cum laude member) (school has a weird GPA system)
6 total ap's (School offers only 11 and a maximum of 8 for a student)
3 sport varsity athlete (Captain in 2 of them)
founded a club and leader of the asian student association
Member of student judiciary
100+ volunteering hours at Ronald Mcdonald house
Worked the last 2 summers as a customer service representative
I would apply under the management and leadership conference (is it easier to apply under this concentration?)
Am I competitive or Nah?
13 replies Indian Male DE resident (goes to private school)
ACT (32) Superscore maybe 33 (hopefully)
GPA 4.17 (cum laude member) (school has a weird GPA system)
6 total ap's (School offers only 11 and a maximum of 8 for a student)
3 sport varsity athlete (Captain in 2 of them)
founded a club and leader of the asian student association
Member of student judiciary
100+ volunteering hours at Ronald Mcdonald house
Worked the last 2 summers as a customer service representative
I would apply under the management and leadership conference (is it easier to apply under this concentration?)
Am I competitive or Nah?
Replies to: Am I at competitive for CSOM
Will your application be read and considered? Definitely.
Can anyone here give you any "chance" information? If they do, you need to consider it as reliable as throwing darts at a dart board.
Read through several previous years result decision threads for BC on this CC forum. You'll see many with profiles much stronger than yours who did not get accepted, and those with equal or perhaps weaker profiles who did.
You might want to look at last year's incoming student profile. It's around page 33 in the BC factbook:
https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/publications/factbook/pdf/18-19_factbook.pdf
With the cover page at https://www.bc.edu/publications/factbook.html
That will give you a sense of what the academic profile was for last year's incoming class.
I do have a question for you.
Why do say your ACT score is 32 here, but you say it's 31 in your Cornell post?
Also here you say you're Cum Laude, but on the Cornell page you say you're Suma Cum Laude.
All the best.
Having said that, as you note, a lot goes into the admission decision besides test scores - though higher is clearly better (but not determinative).
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=boston+college&s=all&id=164924#admsns (average ACT 32) vs http://bcheights.com/2018/03/26/bc-accepts-27-percent-2022-applicants/ (average ACT 33)
I wonder whether the factbook editors understand the mistake to title that part "freshman admission profile." The numbers come from the office of enrollment management.
Anyway, thank you for correcting my comment. You have convinced me!
As an aside, statistically, one cannot just average the 31-34 ACT interquartile range and assume the median is 32.5. The bottom quartile is likely to have a longer tail. It can also dragged down by athletic recruits.
Add in the other important admits at the lower end of the range. The non athlete, non urm, non legacy, non first gen, non development, non BC High candidates have to be stronger than averages. Which is a very high bar. It’s not a helpful tool to use averages to determine odds. It really depends.
Higher scores above the 34 level can see someone in the 3.8 and below camp but still not many obviously.
And the averages include nursing and lynch schools. Both are awesome but the common understanding is the csom candidates populate the highest competitive rung. MCAS especially science and premed types are really the most competitive profiles.
So of course you are an excellent candidate for many schools. But you should consider your app a solid reach for csom. Don’t take my word on it. Go to the decision threads and compare notes from last year.
The below 32 group is comprised to a very large extent of the groups mentioned above atheltes urm legacy first gen and roll eligible and development etc and the candidates for the other niche colleges.
Good luck and keep up the great work.
BC is really trying to increase their AHANA numbers. Asian Hispanic African American Native American. It’s The biggest student club on campus and in admission focus. I was thinking in terms of the large and talented international Asian cohort would be the primary beneficiary. But I’ve rethought it a bit and got some great feedback from a widely respected BC parent here on CC. I would like to modify that point.
It’s a great option/potential for the talented US student of Asian background if that is OPs situation.
If you write well and are able to illustrate why you would make a difference as a student, it wouldn’t shock me that you would get admitted. However it would not be more likely than a 15 to 20 percent chance for all applicants without being a recruit or other big time preference. My stats, not the schools. But close enough directionally. So 8 out of ten roughly will not get in to the school. Your excellent profile will land you somewhere great in any case.
Good luck and let us know what happens. Rooting for you.