Completing Your College Application

Here, you will provide information about yourself like your name, address, and contact information. Pay close attention to spelling and grammar here, as those intricate details are important to the admissions committee. 

In this section, you will be asked about your parents’ marital status and who you live with for the majority of the year. You’ll also be required to provide information about your immediate family members. 

Here, you will share information about BC (and any other schools you have attended during high school), your GPA, and the courses you have taken as a high school student. Please keep in mind that if you are participating in Launch or CAPP, you will list those courses as being taken at BC.

 This is your opportunity to self-report your college entrance exam score (ACT or SAT). Many schools remain test-optional, so please do your research with your universities before self-reporting any scores. You can still self-report scores here even if your university is test-optional. Students may report their ACT or SAT scores to a test-optional school for a number of reasons: scholarships may require a test score, they earned a score that they feel represents their academic ability, etc.

You can add up to 10 activities that you have been involved in during your high school years. You will need to write a brief description of each activity (150 characters or less) and include the hours you devoted to each. If you have participated in more than 10 activities, best practice is to choose the activities that you enjoy the most or that you feel most represent you as a student, and enter those. 

It is also best practice to rank these activities in order of importance to you (the activity entered in the first spot will be considered the most important to you)

The essay is a crucial part of your application! This is your chance to help the admissions committee get to know you as your most authentic self. Your essay will help them to see how and if you would fit as a student at their institution. Use the 2024-25 essay prompts as a means to reflect on your experience and to help you think about what you would like to share with your colleges. This section also affords you the opportunity to share any additional information that was not included elsewhere in your application. Many students will use this section to share about extenuating circumstances that may have impacted grades, attendance, overall performance, etc. during high school (medical concerns, mental health concerns, financial burdens, etc.). 

Here you will add the courses that you have taken (self-reported grades), as they appear on your transcript, as well as the grades that you have earned in your classes. Yes, even though the university is receiving your transcript from your counselor, you will still need to self-report your grades. Universities ask for students to do this so they can “more quickly sort and review applications during their review process” (Common App, 2024).