chance an instate student please!!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>I applied early action. I'm an upper middle class female and I go to a public high school.
Academics:
SAT: Verbal 680 Math 700 Writing 690
Subject Tests: Literature 740
class rank: 13/429
GPA: uw 3.7 w. 4.746
APs: English Lang 5
Statistics 4
Psychology 4
US History 3
Environmental Science 3
Government 3</p>

<p>Senior schedule:
AP English 4
IB 20th Century History
IB Psychology 2
IB Math Studies 2
AP Biology
Honors Spanish 3</p>

<p>recommendations: really good. I read one from my AP English teacher junior year. She's awesome, and the other is from my math teacher who's taught me the past 3 years and loves me.
extracurriculars:
Speech and Debate- President this year, secretary last year. Honestly this is what I've focused the most on in high school. I spend about 14 hours a week on it between practices and tournaments. I've been a state finalist, won districts and been successful in Humorous Interpretation and Original Oratory. I absolutely love speech and it shows. I've participated all 4 years.
NHS- project manager
Interact- member, service projects
student government- class representative 9th and 10th grade
Violin- suzuki level 7, I've been playing since middle school
I do Yoga and I carriage drive my miniature horse
Church- I'm the prayer leader of my youth group and I volunteer there a lot.</p>

<p>community service:
I have a lot of community service.
Church- multiple things with my youth group
Volunteer at the Coalition for Human Care
Volunteer at ARC (association of retarded citizens)
paper drives at my school and regularly work recycling drive at my town
I also have been an AP/Honors teaching assistant for the past 2 years (grade papers etc)</p>

<p>awards and other stuff:
All of my speech stuff plus:
attended UVA Young Writers Workshop in scriptwriting during summer
attended George Mason Institute of Forensics 2 summers (speech camp)
AP Scholar with Distinction
National Forensic League Academic All-American
Junior Marshal for Graduation
NC Governor’s School Nominee – English
Excellence in Speech Award at my school junior and sophomore year
Barnes-Travis Arts Scholarship (arts award in my community)
School winner of the Rotary Club Alcohol and Drug Awareness Speech Competition
Best Newcomer to Speech Award at my school
County Winner of the Optimist Oratorical Competition (2006)
-Invited Presenter at the North Carolina Poetry Society Statewide Annual Meeting, recited my poem, Math, published in North Carolina Poetry Society’s book Bay Leave</p>

<p>anything else that could help me:
My dad is Puerto Rican, so I can put hispanic down on my forms. But I'm not bilingual and it's not like I have dual citizenship anywhere so I'm not sure if this matters.</p>

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<p>Well from my knowledge, it seems you have the potential to attend almost any college. But which state do you live in, and what universities are you looking to attend?</p>

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<p>You can be counted as a URM however. If you took the time to do a good job on your essays you should be in fairly good shape; the rest of your credentials look highly competitive.</p>

<p>Can you still complete and submit the application supplement for the Robertson? Since you are in state, why did you not self nominate for the Morehead if your school didn’t nominate you?</p>

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<p>I believe Robertson is due early December. Remember at UNC you can no longer do both the Morehead and Robertson.</p>

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<p>^Is it possible to do the Morehead @ UNC and the Robertson @ Duke?</p>

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<p>^Yes, it is possible.</p>

<p>Robertson supplement is due December 1. Morehead was due October 1.</p>

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<p>To clarify, I knew the Morehead deadline had passed and I was simply asking why the OP had not self nominated with her credentials since she didn’t mention it. I wasn’t sure about the Robertson deadline which is why I asked and I still recommend that she submit the application supplement.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback!
mfg1014, I live in NC. Carolina is my top choice instate. I’m also applying to a few schools in the North. I’m looking at Northwestern, Wesleyan, Barnard and Vassar. Kind of long shots.</p>

<p>eadad, to clarify, I didn’t self-nominate for the Morehead. My school indicated it would be a “waste of time” (for lack of better phrasing), as I’m not a varsity athlete and apparently I’m missing specific characteristics they look for in a Morehead candidate. I am applying for the Robertson, which after the description, I believe is a better fit anyway.</p>

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<p>That’s a shame because you don’t have to be a varsity athlete to be competitive; that is one of the common mistakes/misunderstandings about the Morehead. Someone at your school needs to refresh their information about qualifying for the award because it is not accurate. Physical vigor does not mean varsity athlete, just that you are not a couch potato and do something like hiking, biking, camping, swimming, etc…and not even at a competitive level.</p>

<p>I felt you looked like a good candidate for either but maybe the Robertson is a better fit. Good luck!</p>