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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, and I would add that BC is not a target with those stats...more like a reach.[/quote]

+1 BC a reach, but Bucknell is probably a target[/quote]

This surprises me! (About BC)[/quote]

My son has slightly higher stats but maybe worse ECs and top choice is BC which we consider reach. If admin rate is below 25% and your stats are not 75% then should be considered reach. We are full pay ED so hopefully that will help. [/quote]

Sorry but full pay will not help as BC is need blind. ED should help though.

[i]"Boston College remains one of only 20 private universities in the United States that is need-blind in admissions and meets the full-demonstrated need of all undergraduate students."[/i]

https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/announcements/tuition-2020-21.html[/quote]

Boston College is aggressive about families tapping home equity and retirement savings.  It does everything it can to limit factors that could boost a family’s financial aid.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/retirement-home-equity-college-tuition-51561739799

[i]Be prepared to be asked for as much as 25% of your equity—even if you are 58, like me, or 55, like my neighbor Brian, whose daughter has been my son’s friend since their mothers met while walking wailing babies. Boston College asked Brian’s family for 3% to 5% of their equity, per year, on top of what they otherwise could afford. The University of Southern California asked me for 6%, helping turn the $30,000 a year other schools believed my family could pay into USC’s initial request for almost $63,000.

“Everyone builds equity, either to downsize after the kids are out of high school or pay off their house and have lower expenses in retirement,’’ said Mitchell Goldberg, president of Client First Strategies in Melville, New York. “People look at the house not only as a retirement asset, but also as the be-all, end-all retirement emergency fund.”

That means many colleges’ promise not to tap your retirement—Boston College’s director of student financial strategies, Bernard Pekala, said the school meets families’ full need, but considers housing an asset available to pay tuition—is bunk.[/i]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-home-equity-impacts-college-aid-11570095001

[i]Schools that require the CSS Profile handle the home-equity information differently. Boston College, for example, looks at 100% of home equity. Stanford University announced last year that it won't consider home equity at all.[/i]

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