<p>Caucasian girl, I'm a senior currently and just visited/toured the campus yesterday.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.75
SAT: 2030
Total of 4 AP classes in high school
All A's except for 2 B's
Theatre productions every fall and spring
Field hockey in freshman/sophomore year
Vice President of Speech/Debate team
Weekly volunteer at a local animal shelter
Attended missions trips/academic camps every summer in high school. </p>
<p>Thank you so much !!</p>
<p>M+R score? Are you in the top10% of your class – if your school ranks?</p>
<p>4 APs are all that was offered or all that you took? Honors course load?</p>
<p>Sorry, I meant 8 AP classes- I transferred to a school where APs are available for my junior year so last year I took 4 AP classes and two honors classes. and this year I take 4 AP classes and two honors classes. Math and reading score is a 1340. My school doesn’t rank.</p>
<p>As I’m sure you have heard, OOS admissions are very competitive (~20% acceptance rate). Unfortunately for you, UNC just joined the Common App this year. When schools join the Common App they can expect ~20% increase of applicants and as a result their acceptance rate drops as well. So the admissions data I’m presenting will likely be weaker than the competition you’ll face.</p>
<p>The whole student body:
-Your M+CR test scores are maybe 60th percentile
<p>However, this link breaks down instate vs. OOS admissions profiles.
[First-Year</a> Full-Time Undergraduate Student Profile, Fall 2010 - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment](<a href=“http://oira.unc.edu/first-time-freshman-class-profile-fall.html]First-Year”>http://oira.unc.edu/first-time-freshman-class-profile-fall.html)</p>
<p>Just comparing your scores to the OOS students, I would say that your M+CR are closer to the 50th percentile. Probably slightly higher percentile for /2400.</p>
<p>-Your unweighted GPA is high and 20% of attendees’ schools don’t rank
-I’m not sure how many APs are offered or how many APs your peers took at your school but 8 sounds lowish, especially when you’ve taken regular classes too? I’m assuming 8APs, 4Honors, 4 Regular Junior and Senior year. If the top students at your school usually take more, this could hurt you.</p>
<p>-The breadth of your ECs looks good. Leadership may be lacking (might want to play up something else, or emphasize this roll).</p>
<p>Overall, I think you have a shot. You don’t immediately fall in or out. Next year is going to be really competitive.</p>
<p>Best of luck in applying. Let me know if you have any questions!</p>
<p>It’s not just a numbers game, though it is the largest factor. Your extracurriculars and leadership demonstration will only help your decision. Best of luck, admissions to top 5 publics is a crapshoot. I’ve heard of kids with lower stats than you getting in and than kids with higher stats getting denied but accepted to comparable schools like UVA and Michigan.</p>
<p>OOS is so much more competitive and unpredictable. If instate, I’d say you’d be in.</p>
<p>I find the student profile referenced above interesting. I spoke to an admissions officer about the typical profile for an OOS, and he said that the mid 50% was 750 and above on all three sections and that the applicants were pretty much stellar in every other area. Pretty depressing if that’s true.</p>
<p>Helpfulmommy it is pretty much true. Of course there are minorities and your exceptions, even from out of state, who find their way into UNC with less-than-average credentials. Though most out of state have graduated with the highest honors in their high schools (National Merit, AP Scholars with Distinction, Valedictorian/Salut., etc.) and are ranked within the top 10 students in their class (not top 10th percentile). </p>
<p>These are students who have could of gone to neighboring Duke, Northwestern, Emory, Wash. U, Tufts, Penn, Cornell, Vanderbilt, etc. People flock to North Carolina for its top academic programs in business and the biological/ life sciences (LOT OF PRE MEDS), amazing athletic program and quintessential college campus and college town. </p>
<p>Though I would advise premeds to go to smaller, private schools where they have smaller classes and do not face GPA deflation, since admission to medical school is extremely hard. UNC is a factory school, I had fun and thought it was challenging, but in the long run, I much would have paid out of state tuition at a smaller private. I just don’t see the huge reputation that people give it. Going to UNC will not make you any better off, or it hasn’t helped me the slightest yet.</p>
<p>I’ve only taken 5 AP’s, and the smartest kids take 6 or 7. 7 is only if you take an extra class Junior year, and 6 is for AP Calc, which they did not allow me to take.</p>