<p>I am a high school senior who wants to major in mathematics. Financial being the the chief factor, I want to apply to need-blind colleges like Boston college.
My SAT score is 2250 (math800, reading760, writing690)
I have mostly A’s on the 11th grade transcript, but the 10th grade scores are low (can’t tell you the gpa since I am a US citizen living in India and my 10th grade school had neither grades nor GPAs).
The recommendations will be quite good.
Don’t know whether BC cares about extra-curriculars, but they are alright-</p>
<p>1)Selection for a couple of national seminars in graduate mathematics
(Representation Theory, Commutative Algebra, Topology)
2)the Indian equivalent of the USAMO (in 10th and 11th grade), but I wasn’t selected for the IMO team.
3)the regional math olympiad which is more or less similar to the AIME (in grades 9th and 10th)
Some community service
Could I get into Boston college?</p>
<p>When you go through Boston College’s orientation process, the phrase “Men and Women for Others” comes up quite often as part of the Jesuit education tradition. Your listed extra curriculars are extremely light and really very narrow in focus - mathematics. You are going to need substantially more than this to be able to complete a successful application process to Boston College. Your brief overview shows nothing about club or school sports, music (chorus, band, orchestra), club leadership (positions), or honor societies. Boston College will look for a very complete picture along these lines.</p>
<p>That’s exactly what I am worried about. I have no awards in sports although I have represented my dumb school for a couple of tennis tournaments.
However, where I live, such clubs are unheard of and I have no idea about what honor societies are. Do institutions concerned with community service count as clubs or honor societies? </p>
<p>What else could help for getting into Boston College? Do papers in math /science help the way they do for Caltech, etc ?
Any help will be really appreciated.</p>