Chance me

Colleges & Universities Boston College
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<p>Junior</p>

<p>GPA:3.82 unweighted; 4.1 wieghted</p>

<p>Class rank: 9th out of 250</p>

<p>Courses:
Fresh: Bio-H, World Hist-H, Geometry-H, Span. II, Eng.
Soph: Chem-H, US1-H, Alg 2/trig-H, Span. III-H, Eng.
Junior: AP Chem, AP Bio, Diff. Calc-H, Span. IV, Eng.
Projected senior year: AP Physics, AP BC Calc, Physio-H, Span V-H, Eng-H</p>

<p>SAT: 1770: 580-Reading 660-Math 530-Writing (first time through)</p>

<p>Ethnicity:Indian/Carribean Islander</p>

<p>EC’s: Minority group at the school, Math Team, Science Olympiad, Science fair (junior year), Freshman and JV baseball (trying out for varsity this year)</p>

<p>let me know if i forgot any categories. Thanks for all input.</p>

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<p>I would say no at this point. A rise in the SAT is a must, and will any of your ECs culminate in a leadership role next year?</p>

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<p>slim to none and slim left town… SAT</p>

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<p>Try the ACT. You might it more to your liking.</p>

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<p>How high should i shoot for on my SAT to be on a BC level?</p>

<p>and what else on my resume is not up to BC standards?</p>

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<p>Your resume is fully up to BC standards, EXCEPT your SAT score. You definitely want to shoot for a 2000+ (Although I’ve seen people with lower scores accepted), and you might want to consider the SAT IIs.</p>

<p>1770 for a first time isn’t bad. Take some prep courses and practice tests, I guarantee your score will go up the next time around.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>My suggestion is you try ACT</p>

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<p>BC’s middle 50% scores are 1910-2125. So you want to aim for ~2000 (or ACT ~30) to me at the mean. </p>

<p>[Selecting</a> the Class - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/process/selecting.html]Selecting”>http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/process/selecting.html)</p>

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<p>believe it or not, your ethnicity will work wonders for college acceptance anywhere</p>

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<p>Oh almost: “your ethnicity will work wonders for college acceptance anywhere,” is so far from the truth. It’s a shame and you should really do some research before you post nonsense like that.</p>

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<p>so say i get a 1900 on my next SAT, how do my chances look?</p>

<p>BTW, I didn’t study one bit for the first one. It was in the middle of my midyears for school so i was pretty fried on a Saturday morning.</p>

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<p>honestly, the more you take the SAT the better you do. i went from 1710 to 1860 to 1940 and i never studied or took any classes. its really a practice makes perfect kind of thing which is why i dont think colleges should put so much weight onto it</p>

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<p>I plan to take these next year</p>

<p>Senior
Ap BC Calc
Ap Physics
Physiology-H
Spanish V-H</p>

<p>My dilemma is: Should I take honors or standard English. If I take honors english, I might get c’s and be overworked. If i take standard english, I will almost definitely have a 4.0 UW GPA for the year but the standard english courses are only half year electives such as poetry, journalism, plays, etc.</p>

<p>So what should I do for BC? GPA or harder course?</p>

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<p>i got an 1850. How do my chances look now. Should I retake the test?</p>

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<p>Dear Marker13 : In your senior year, you just have to have a full course load in the five major areas : mathematics, science, English, social studies, language. You should be striving to take the most rigorous course load possible.</p>

<p>An 1850 three-way SAT score (bottom quartile), a weaker senior year English class, and no senior year History/Economics spell doom at a university like Boston College with a strong liberal arts core at the heart of the curriculum. </p>

<p>Specifically, you should absolutely be taking Honors English at a minimum and probably should have been on an AP English track in order to improve your chances for success. Just as a reference point, a “C” in Honors English could well be worse than that at Boston College - just food for thought when thinking about the workload.</p>

<p>Now is not the time to kickback to bolster your GPA as that is not where your application’s challenges will be. Either you are up for the challenge or you are looking to slide : quite frankly, your questions are reading like the latter and if we can pick up on that attitude in a College Confidential posting, you can be assured that the admissions staff will make the same inferences.</p>

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<p>Marker13:
Look at the BC Factbook which is published every year. It’s at:</p>

<pre><code>http://www.bc.edu/publications/factbook/meta-elements/pdf/10-11/10-11_fact_book.pdf
</code></pre>

<p>On page 32, you’ll see that an 1850 SAT score lands you deep into the lower 25% of accepted students. The lower your academic profile, the more you’ll need significantly strong elements elsewhere in your application. Are those the odds you really want to be playing?</p>

<p>No one here can say if your 1850 SAT score will keep you from getting in - but it will hurt. If you scan recent BC threads, you’ll see several with scores over 2200 and with high GPAs who were rejected or waitlisted. You’ll also see some accepted with much lower values.</p>

<p>If you seriously want to remove the 1850 black-eye from your application, you have plenty of time between now and next fall to improve your SAT scores. I’ve seen many do it, either through paid prep courses or totally on their own (with self-help material). But the ones with appreciable gains were the ones who devoted serious time to it.</p>