Chance me UNC-Chapel Hill (OOS)

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Applied Early Action as a communications major, but I’m thinking I’d be more interested in a business/marketing setting

White Male

State:Ohio

Highly ranked (#1 for public AND private high schools in central Ohio), small (slightly less than 100 in my class) public high school

School does not rank

ACT: 33 (36 reading, 36 English, 33 Science, 27 Math) (23 Writing)

GPA: 3.69 UW, 4.12 W (9th: 3.84 10th: 3.93 11th: 4.59 12th (first semester): 4.14)

My counselor rec should be very good, she is a friend of my family.

AP Courses: Macroeconomics (10), European History (11), Lang + Comp (11), Physics (12), Lit + Comp (12), Government (12), Statistics (12). I have also taken as many honors courses as I could and 3 dual-enrollment courses through a local community college.

ECs: Football 9-12, Basketball 9, School Newspaper 10 and 12, Camp Counselor for 5th grade camp 11, “Summer 2 Serve” youth service group 9-12, “I-Can-Bike” camp for the mentally disabled 9, youth football combine 10, GHHS Youth football camp 9-12, various soup kitchens and free grocery stores for impoverished families 10-11, daycare for impoverished families 11, Powerlifting Club 10-12, National Honor Society (11-12), GYFA youth football game announcer

Major Awards: MSL-Ohio Ernie Godfrey Scholar-Athlete Award (top academic award from my school’s athletic league), National Honor Society, 3x Scholar-Athlete Award winner.

I will be applying for need-based financial aid

Income bracket: $50k - $60k

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So, a lot of your application seems to center around athletics. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s less strong than an equal involvement in an academic thing, because UNC has great athletics and unless you’re being recruited, they won’t be worth as much. That said, you’ve got a good ACT, but your low math subscore will hurt. Your GPA is a little low, too. I’d guess it’s unlikely that you’ll get in

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Your stats are within the ballpark for UNC-CH. Keep in mind, however, that OOS students are held to a higher standard. Your LORs and essay will definitely be of more use to you than the athletic ECs, I’m sorry to say. Colleges (unless you’re getting recruited) would generally rather like to see more academic/non-athletic endeavors in the topic of your extracurriculars.

Shouldn’t decisions be coming out soon?

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Our OOS high school usually has a couple of students admitted each year to UNC-CH; and, with the exception of legacy students, our admitted students have SAT scores of 1350+, ACT scores of 34+, and weighted GPAs of 4.5+ on a 5.0 scale. Other kids in our city who I know were admitted to UNC-CH recently have also had similar statistics; and all of these kids were “unhooked” in admissions parlance (i.e., not a recruited D-1 athlete, or URM, first-generation college student, etc.).

If you look at the UNC-CH common data set, under Part C7 it states that standardized test scores, application essay, letter(s) of recommendation, and rigor of your high school record are “very important” academic factors considered for freshman admission, whereas GPA and class rank are “important” academic factors considered for freshman admission. Extracurricular activities, talent, and character/personal qualities are considered as “very important” non-academic factors.

As you may know, admission of OOS students is very competitive; and UNC admits OOS applicants in numbers that are calculated not to exceed 18% of an entering freshman class. See “Undergraduate Admissions” on Page 2, here: http://www.admissions.unc.edu/files/2013/09/Admissions__Policy.pdf. Last year’s entering freshman class had a 15% acceptance rate for UNC-CH: http://admissions.unc.edu/apply/class-profile-2/.

I would agree with @Plumbus in assessing your admissions chances as unlikely, for some of the same reasons: ACT is slightly low (including subscores), GPA is low for UNC-CH OOS applicants, your ECs show a lot of participation but not necessarily leadership. But you should be hearing something within the next 3 weeks or so as an EA applicant.