Can you stand one more pathetic plea to "chance me"?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>My Mom is the pathetic one and bugging me to do this, so please chance me and get her off my back!!!!</p>

<p>Biology (concentration in Marine Biology)</p>

<p>ethnicity: White/Female
school: Well regarded public school in far NW New Jersey (top 2 students last year got into Harvard and MIT)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.96/4.30
Ranking: School does not rank except for top 2. I am either #2 or #3 out of 402
SAT I: 2100 (CR 670 W 740 M 690) Got very sick night before which stunk!
SAT II: Bio 790 Chem 770 Math II 720
AP: Total of 11
Soph:Physics B(4)/U.S. History(4)
Junior: Calc ab(5)/Bio(5)/Lang and Comp(4)/World History(5)
Senior: Chem/Env. Science/Calc bc/Lit and Comp/French
All other classes honors, hardest schedule permitted.
Took College Algebra course at local college btw. 10th and 11th grade to jump ahead in math and got A.</p>

<p>EC:
IDI (Inform Defend Improve) Biology Club
President- grade 12 (9th 10th 11th 12th grade)
Science League (10th 11th 12th grade)
Math League (12th grade)
Mini-MORT (FIRST LEGO Robotics Team) Team Member then Mentor (9th 10th grade)Debate Team (9th 10th 11th 12th grade)
2007 Championships 2nd Place Negative Team
2007 Overall Season 2nd Place Negative Team
Gay-Straight Alliance (11th 12th grade)
Treasurer- grade 12</p>

<p>National Honor Society (11th 12th grade)
Mount Olive World Language Honor Society - French (10th 11th 12th grade)
Tri-M Music Honor Society For Violin and Double Bass (11th 12th grade)
Girl Scouts--Silver Award/Working on Gold Award
Mount Olive Press (9th 10th 11th grade)
Church Choir (Age 6-present)</p>

<p>Mount Olive Swim Team (9th 10th 11th 12th grade) Mt. Olive Varsity Award 05-06,
06-07, 07-08 seasons
Flanders Valley Swim Team (9th 10th 11th 12th grade)</p>

<p>150+ volunteer hours</p>

<p>Awards:
Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award 2008
New Jersey Governor’s School on the Environment 2008
AP Scholar with Distinction Award 2008
SUMO Invitational Orchestra 2008</p>

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<p>You say nothing about your essays or letters of recommendation. Hopefully you spent a lot of time and sent carefully crafted essays since they are a big part of the UNC admission process.</p>

<p>Did you think to either include a personal statement that explained your illness prior to taking the SAT or have your college counselor do it for you? Your SAT II scores are great and some explanation would have made perfect sense with the notable difference between your SAT II and the SAT I scores.</p>

<p>A 1360 old score is just 19 points above the average OOS score for the class of 2012 and as has been previously mentioned that number includes URMs and recruited athletes so I would think that it is on the low side for an average white female applicant. Please note that I am not calling you average in any way, just using the statistical connotation. Hopefully your essays can make up for the lower (by comparison) SAT score.</p>

<p>It's probably not too late to try to get a note or email either from you or your college counselor to your regional admission rep that explains the illness and test score aberration.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>You definitely have a good shot. Your SATs are good but the disproportionality of your scores might hurt because although you have 2100 you have 1360, which is barely above average for OOS, which includes many many athletes and URMs (no offense to URMs)</p>