Financial Aid? please help!

Colleges & Universities Boston College
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<p>What is my liklihood of getting accepted at BC? Also, how likely am I to get fin aid? How is the financial aid here? </p>

<p>I am a high school junior. I have a 4.22 on a 4.0 scale (3.98 unweighted). I got a 28 on the ACT, but I am retaking it soon. I am ranked 20ish in a class of 530. A few of my literary works were published in our school’s literary magazine and I am a reporter and HR manager of our school’s student newpaper. Also, I am president of our school’s Diversity Club, member of NHS, and co-founder/vice president of Creativity Club (formerly the corresponding secretary of History Club and a member of Art Club, but both of them were canceled last year). I participate in competitive artistic roller skating and practice about three hours a day six days per week, with this I have won eight national and regional metals and this year I won Leslie Elder Michigan Skater of the Year. For community service (I do at least 11 hours/week), I work as an assistant for my former chemistry teacher once a week, I volunteer at the Michigan Humane Society every weekend, I teach a roller skating for beginner and advanced classes, and I volunteer and job shadow at the hospital near my house (which is nationally ranked) every Friday. Also, last summer I did a medical program at Michigan Tech, this summer I am doing the medical program at U of MD with the National Student Leadership Conference. This summer I also plan on teaching French to elementary school kids. </p>

<p>My cousin is probably going to go here next year, too! </p>

<p>Classes: Jr yr: (I took AP US History sophomore year) AP Gov, Honors English, Independent Study: Physiology (alot of research involved), Genetics/Evolution, Advanced Journalism, Alg 2, French 3, Physics</p>

<p>Tenative classes for Sr yr: AP English, AP Bio, Advanced Journalism, Psychology, Epidemology, French 4, Pre Calc/Trig</p>

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<p>Financial aid at BC is entirely need-based (except for the few full-tuition Presidential Scholarships) so how muchmoney you would receive will depend upon your family’s EFC. There is no merit aid.</p>

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<p>as worred_mom said, BC doesnt offer merit aid so your financial aid will depend on how much money your family has. consensus is that middle-class doesnt get much of anything so unless youre low-income youre out of luck.</p>

<p>but i think by looking at how youre going, you have a good shot of getting in next year. classes and GPA look great, ECs too. retake that ACT to get it higher within BCs range (youre right at 25% right now) and you should have a great chance.</p>

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<p>I forgot to add that for skating I also received the Michigan National Acheivement Award for Junior Olympic Figure Skating and the Maggie Eng Club Award for Junior Olympic National Championships in 2004, and the Michigan National Acheivement Award for Figure Rolller Skating in 2007. In Diversity Club, this year I organized a Save Darfur campaign, met with Governor Granholm for a Youth Roundtable Program Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., organized multiple fundraisers for Freedom House (an asylem for refugees in down town Detroit). </p>

<p>I resigned up for the ACT in April.<br>
Thank you everyone for your help!</p>