<p>Sat score: 1530
GPA: 3.63
EC: TONS OF EXTRACURRICULAR including a submitted picture of me and Obama (dont know if it helped or not) </p>
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<p>rejections:</p>
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<p>waitlist:</p>
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<p>No decision yet</p>
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<p>A picture with Obama? Haha, that’s pretty funny. I don’t think Adcoms were impressed but I bet then enjoyed seeing it! You’ve gotten some nice acceptances there. Congrats. Good luck with the rest of your decisions!</p>
<p>this gives me a tiny bit of hope for my 2250 SAT/3.7GPA application to stanford…</p>
<p>only a little though xD</p>
<p>also, congrats on boston college!</p>
<p>Trust me, Extracurriculars account alot because i had a pretty low sat score and still made it!!</p>
<p>Was 1530 your total for 3 sections? If so, then I’m surprised that you got accepted to BC.</p>
<p>Do you have some hook? Are you a male URM?</p>
<p>He’s a URM ^^</p>
<p>I am an african american student with 1530 on three sections and what is urm? i had a fantastic essay and lots of extracurricular leadership roles</p>
<p>URM is an under-represented minority. It means a race is not proportionally represented in Colleges. For political, social, statistical, moral, ethical, etc. reasons, colleges give URMs a significant boost in admission.</p>
<p>Imagine that 25% of the country was a race called “Peanut”. If only 10% of a college’s students were Peanuts, the college would be under-representing that race, and would give Peanuts a significant boost in admission to help close the gap.</p>
<p>Peanuts- Congrats on getting in the door. Best of luck staying there with a 1530. Study hard and keep focused.</p>
<p>ahhh so it is not a miracle rather just an advantage that “URM’s” have when applying to colleges! Well im happy it worked to my advantage however i was unpleased to see people with 2000’s and 33 not getting into some of the colleges I got into with a 1500. Maybe im just thinking to hard about it!</p>
<p>Even as a URM, a 1530 is extremely low for BC.</p>
<p>Well, being a URM helps a lot, but it definitely doesn’t mean you’re automatically accepted. Ultimately, you got in because you deserved to get in! Congrats again.</p>
<p>Correct. I don’t mean to diminish his accomplishments. I’m sure his personality was seen through his essays and the rest of his profile stood out.</p>
<p>It’s 1530 on three sections? When I read it, I thought that was the reading/math, and I was trying to figure out the point of the post. That’s an absolutely incredible admission to BC, even with stellar essays. I would have never believed that a URM hook could be that large. But maybe I think of BC as being more selective than it is.</p>
<p>It could have also been that I was a posse finalist which is a huge scholarship! And my essay I wrote was quite great. And I was top 10 in my class.</p>
<p>Yes, plenty of students with higher stats are being denied admission because people with lower ability and some sort of “hook” are getting in. My question is: do they actually stay long enough to graduate, or do they transfer because they can’t cut it? Not just talking about BC either.</p>
<p>“people with lower ability and some sort of “hook” are getting in”</p>
<p>Why assume that someone who doesn’t test well but is one of the top 10 in his class is of lower ability? Distance traveled is an important concept in college admissions - making the most of the hand you’ve been dealt. I’m impressed by a student who hasn’t had the kind of coaching and the opportunities that my kids have had making top grades, impressing his teachers and becoming a leader in his community. </p>
<p>And Posse has a very impressive track record for selecting high performing students (both URM and non-URM) and making sure they have the infrastructure they need to succeed in college. (At Grinnell, where my S is a student, a Posse student was the Student Body President the year he arrived on campus.)</p>
<p>Congrats, Mohammed.</p>
<p>Congratulations mohamed123 on being a Posse Foundation finalist!</p>
<p>For others reading this trhead, The Posse Foundation identifies outstanding high school seniors who have demonstrated leadership and incredible potential.</p>
<p>To teachandmom, yes these students succeed. From the Posse foundation websits “For 20 years, Posse partner colleges and universities have welcomed Posse Scholars onto their campuses. They have awarded an incredible $334 million in leadership scholarships to these young people and have seen their success not only as leaders on campus, but in these students’ 90 percent graduation rate.”</p>
<p>thank you very much! and yes many people may think that sat scores measure you intelligence however, you have to understand that not everyone has the resources that you have! All i had to study for the SAT was an outdated Princeton review and online resources. I was not anywhere near happy with my sat score and was rather disappointed even though i spent months studying for it.</p>
<p>So sad how many people on CC associate intelligence (and worth!) with test scores. I am thrilled to see every URM acceptence!</p>