Anyone else get straight up rejected with reasonable stats?

jpm50
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:10:14 +0000

Another way to view at an academic profile (GPA & SAT/ACT scores) is that it puts your application into the pool of applications to be further evaluated. It’s in that pool where the adcoms then look further at the big picture of your application. Once in that pool, a stronger profile can help, but it’s no longer the primary focus. Scottj’s many comments do a great job highlighting the areas an application can look stronger beyond the academics.

Being rejected is not something to be taken personally. With 30,000+ applicants, BC adcoms know they have to turn away many qualified individuals. That message really hit me when I heard the director of admissions at MIT tell us they could fill the entire freshman class with qualified applicants from Massachusetts alone.