Chance Me for Chapel Hill

Basic Info:

  • Rising senior
  • In state
  • Asian
  • First generation
  • Income: >$45,000 (family of four)
  • Competitive private school

Weighted GPA: 4.39
Unweighted GPA: 3.91
Top 10% of class (4.28 to 4.57) (School does decile ranking by GPA)
ACT: 27 (Never intended to take it, but school forced my entire class to take it during school one day. Didn’t study.)
SAT Superscore: 1970 (Reading: 670) (Math: 640) (Writing: 660)

  • Collegeboard screwed me over on the June 6 SAT, the 2nd SAT I’ve taken. However, I failed to study for both SATs. I’m contemplating taking it again in October.
  • I will be taking SAT Subject tests soon.
  • Currently awaiting AP English Lang and APUSH scores.

Freshman Year Classes: Religion (requirement for my high school), Advance English (highest course offered for freshmen), Chorus, Beginning Drama, Advance Spanish 1 (highest course offered for freshmen), Health, PE, Honors Geometry, Advance Biology (highest course offered for freshmen)

  • I had all A’s except for Honors Geometry (B both semesters)

Sophomore Year Classes: Religion, Honors English 10, Choral Ensemble, Advance Spanish 2 (highest course offered for sophomore), Honors Algebra 2, Honors Chemistry, Advance World History

  • I had all A’s both semesters

Junior Year Classes: Honors Physics, AP English, Honors Choir, AP US History, Religion, Honors Pre-Calculus, Honors Spanish III

  • I had all A’s except for AP English (B+ both semesters) and Honors Spanish III (A 1st semester/A- 2nd semester)

Senior Year Classes: Religion, Honors English (decided not to take AP Lit although I tested into it), AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, Honors Choir, AP Microeconomics, AP US Government, AP Chemistry

ECs (worth noting): Godspell (freshman year), National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Senior Class Representative, Diversity Club (President), Songwriting Club (President), Campus Ministry Retreat Team Member, filming (I help my dad film weddings on Saturdays a lot to help make income for the fam), volunteering at my church every Sunday, internship at a medical clinic, and a bunch of other clubs (for example, HOSA and Missionaries of the Poor, but I don’t have leadership positions in those clubs)

In addition, I attended Chapel Hill’s Project Uplift, a program that acknowledges high achieving minority students. And each year from my school, about 80 students apply to Chapel Hill, but only half get admitted.

I think you have a great chance of getting in. Your SAT could be a little higher, but I don’t think it will stop you from getting in. I took the June 6th SAT as well…what a disappointment! Anyway, you shouldn’t have any trouble getting in. Chance me back for UNC? (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1787565-unc-chapel-hill-in-state-chances.html?new=1)