<p>Grade: Junior</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.7</p>
<p>Class Rank: Top 5% (20/500)</p>
<p>APs - APUSH, AP World, AP English Lang, AP English Lit, AP Calculus AB, AP Environmental Science, AP Politics and Gov - (all other courses are honors) </p>
<p>SATs: 1950 - retaking, projected to go up to around 2100+</p>
<p>Activities/ECs/Etc
- Model UN (Best Delegate award, Northeastern University, Harvard University)
- Internship with Dell and Verizon
- Representative for City Year Boston
- Citywide Math Enrichment Tutor
- NLE Participant
- Key Club (meh.)
- Babysitting (five days a week, 30 weeks a year)
- Worked with city gov’t to work out a budget for the school which wouldn’t sacrifice our arts program - was able to showcase this community service project in Boston at a conference
- Couple of local essay competitions - Freshman year, had a piece about the American Dream published in local newspaper, Junior year, had a satire piece about the war on drugs published in school newspaper
- Artwork featured in city wide art show
- AP Scholar with Honor
- Next year, I’m going to found and run our school’s first Latin club </p>
<p>RECs - Strong recommendations from three teachers, two are AP teachers, all are teachers who I’ve received A+s in.</p>
<p>Essay - Probably decent, going to write it about my experience living in the Western Sahara of Morocco.</p>
<p>Meh you’re fine. We can’t tell if you’re going to get in or not as what they look for changes</p>
<p>1950 SAT and 3.7 UW GPA…and you call yourself weak for Boston U ?</p>
<p>Definitely don’t go into the college admissions process thinking you are a “weak” candidate, or portraying yourself that way to admissions committees. You are a strong applicant! You are almost shooting yourself in the foot calling yourself weak. It leaves people wondering if you are either very insecure or playing down your obvious strengths deliberately (i.e. you know you are a strong candidate but you are calling yourself weak – it’s silly.) Your essay topic sounds really interesting. Just be sure to make it genuine, not just what you assume colleges want to hear. Also, you might want to give the ACT a shot before retaking the SAT. You never know – you may do very well on it.</p>
<p>This is far from weak… this is extremely strong.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. You are really strong. Don’t worry about not getting in. I think you will!</p>
<p>Actually, your SATs ARE below average for BU. </p>
<p>For the incoming class, the average stats were:</p>
<p>2016 SAT
A- average (they didn’t give a number GPA)
top 9% of the class</p>
<p>They got over 52,000 applications, and accepted ~31%.</p>
<p>The good news is, I think you’re within striking distance. I would definitely re-take the SAT.</p>
<p>FTR, my D is very “average” for BU, but she considered it her dream/reach school. She’s enrolled in their SED. Interestingly, our public school is very competitive–a dozen or so kids going to Ivies is typical–but this year was “the year of the safety school”. Lots of kids in the top 10% are going to State U who thought they’d go to a more competitive school. I’m not trying to scare you, just be realistic. There’s nothing wrong with your stats, but nothing’s guaranteed.</p>
<p>Not sure where you got this 31% business. The link below says they accepted 36% and that is before anyone is taken from the waitlist. Part of this is due to their shrinking class size which now stands at 3800.</p>
<p>Also just want to clarify that the 2016 average stats are for “admitted students” not the ones that actually attend. Their 25%-75% SAT range is 1780-2050 for those that chose to attend.</p>
<p>Short answer: I think youll get in.</p>
<p>[BU</a> Class of 2017 a Select Group | BU Today | Boston University](<a href=“http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/bu-class-of-2017-a-select-group/]BU”>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/bu-class-of-2017-a-select-group/)</p>
<p>Well, I got the 31% from another thread on this site–don’t remember the exact title, but it was about all college acceptance rates, and had a list.</p>
<p>The other stats I gave were the stats provided by the school during an open house for admitted students last month.</p>
<p>My daughter had 2030 SATs, a weighted GPA over 4.0 (not sure the exact number), and was top 6% of her class. She also had good EC’s–lots of teaching experience, in addition to the basic stuff like XC and NHS. She considered it a reach school. Maybe she sells herself short, I don’t know. Certainly, none of us thought she was a shoe-in. Based on the sheer number of applicants, I think anyone in the average range shouldn’t consider themselves golden–better to consider the possibility that you won’t get accepted and have back-up plans in place.</p>