Chance me OOS!!!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>So I live on the West Coast, but I would really like to go away for college. UNC Chapel Hill is one of my top choices right now, but as an out of state applicant, would I even have a chance? I have the impression that applying OOS is vastly more difficult for some reason...
I know my GPA isn't the greatest, which is my main concern. </p>

<p>TEST SCORES:
ACT Composite: 33 (I'm taking it again to try and get it to a 34)
ACT Reading: 34
ACT English: 35
ACT Science: 34
ACT Math: 25 (ha...getting tutoring for that one...)</p>

<p>SAT II Literature: 790
SAT II US History: 730
SAT II Spanish: 650 </p>

<p>AP Spanish exam: 5
AP English Language exam: 5
AP US History exam: 5
AP Art History exam: 4
AP Euro exam: 3 (bleh)</p>

<p>GRADES:
Weighted (w/freshman year): 4.1
Unweighted: 3.7
Weighted (w/out freshman year): 4.3</p>

<p>UPWARD TREND:
Will my upward trend in grades help? I took THE most rigorous courseload possible.
Freshman: 3.4/3.6 Soph: 3.8/4.0 Junior: 4.8/4.8 </p>

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<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:
School newspaper, 3 years
Founded the school literary magazine
Alternative Energy Organization, Secretary
Beta Club, Publicity
J-Club (Journalism club), President/Founder
Work experience: Stylist at a local clothing boutique
Internship: Reporter/blogger for a local online newspaper</p>

<p>LEADERSHIP:
Editor-in-chief/Founder of the school literary magazine
Section editor of the school newspaper, 1 year
Editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, 1 year
President/founding member of 2 clubs at school (see above)
Varsity cheer captain</p>

<p>ATHLETICS:
Varsity cheerleading (4 years)
Competitive dance (my whole life)</p>

<p>VOLUNTEER/SERVICE WORK:
200+ hours
Young Leaders in Health Care
Beta Club
Relay for Life</p>

<p>HONORS AND AWARDS:
Won writing competition awards in National Student Press Association journalism conventions
Honor roll
Scholar athlete</p>

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<p>OOS can be luck considering UNC’s acceptance rate for OOS is super low. California has such great schools though!</p>

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<p>Your stats look good</p>

<p>My d got in with lower act but higher gap unweighted 3.8/4
I’m pretty sure they look at unweighted from our recent meeting with admissions</p>

<p>However my d was early action, deferred then wait listed twice. She hung in there til the very end didn’t rely on it but kind of secretly hoped and she is headed there tomorrow for class of 2016!</p>

<p>Good luck be persistent because you have a shot just make sure you have a great alternate because they accept few oos. Go heels!</p>

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<p>Nice to read your story @Rosa to hang in there. My D is applying OOS this fall and is very nervous.</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone for your input…it’s nice to hear stories like that! I’m not pinning my hopes on UNC, and I luckily have plenty of alternatives on the list. </p>

<p>The best of luck to anyone applying! Ahhh so nervous to be OOS…</p>

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<p>Rosa - did you dd do anything special with the admissions people? Did she make extra calls? Do you know if UNC has “local” admissions people? My dd really wants to go to UNC - she has a 4.0 unweighted 4.5 weighted with a 34 ACT and great EC’s but we are not hopeful. Just wondering if you have any advice to help the chances. We did visit last summer.</p>

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<p>I can answer one of your questions. We were told by admissions they do not have local reps. Most likely because they really don’t recruit out of state. We visited earlier this year and they are the only school who doesn’t send any mailings or marketing material.</p>

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<p>Well, i really don’t know what she did if anything to make a difference…</p>

<p>BTW there are stats posted on this year’s class enlightening on another thread here’s the link you can check your stats against these to get an idea.</p>

<p>[UNC</a> News - Preliminary Profile: 2012 UNC-Chapel Hill First-Year Class](<a href=“http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5499/75/]UNC”>http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5499/75/)</p>

<p>First, she applied early action. Although she was deferred, this may have helped her. After she received the wait list notice, she sent in the ‘accept the spot’ notice right away, that may also have helped. We talked about it and she said that she was confident that if she were offered a spot she would walk away from the school she had already committed to. It’s important to remember that the wait list thing is really hard on the kids… They have already painted uptheir cars with their new schools and the graduation programs are printed and stuff, so they’re backing out, it’s not easy.</p>

<p>Anyways once she told me she was sure, we decided it wouldn’t hurt to communicate that to the school so she called there. I have no idea if that had an impact. they told her there would be no benefit but i know it was a tiny percent of wait list kids who got in.</p>

<p>My D is Hispanic, OOS, 3.8/4 unweighted ACT 31. Volleyball State Champion 3 times as a starter, coach’s award etc. All AP and honors.</p>

<p>I WILL say that my understanding is the reason most OOS kids are waitlisted is because the school believes they are qualified to attend but for some reason they haven’t really established the kid had a strong interest so may not accept the spot… they want to offer spots to kids who will accept. So one mistake we made was to NOT visit. well, we visited but we didn’t check in with admissions that was STUPID.</p>

<p>IF you can visit, it can’t hurt. Make sure you check in with admissions. Actually it’s a good trip because Wake Forest, Elon, NC State, and Duke are all within an hours drive and they’re all great schools.</p>

<p>R</p>

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<p>it’s not the UNC is picky or unfriendly toward OOS. They are required by law to have a very high percent of kids from in state… there is a separate thread on the subject. So, even if they love you their hands are tied, it’s not like they’re trying to be mean or anything… See the rule posted on the other thread, sorry not sure how to put it here without too much work</p>

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<p>imo u have a pretty good shot. I’m assuming you took the ACT today?</p>

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<p>I was just checking the common data set for UNC for my daughter. We are also OOS. For incoming freshmen, 95.46% have UW GPA 3.75 or above. It is not separated by in state/OOS, but I hazard a guess that for OOS it may be even higher %. So make your essay shine.</p>