I applied to the School of Nursing and I’m an OOS, Asian male.
SAT: 1320 (640 R+W, 680 Math)
GPA: 3.78 UW (School doesn’t do weighted GPA)
Class Rank: 69/565
APs: I’ll have taken 6 by the time I graduate. European History (3), US History (4), Biology (3).
Senior Year Courses:
AP Calc AB
AP Gov
AP Lit
Human Bio
Spanish 4
Econ/Legal Studies (One semester each)
ECs:
Varsity Track (9, 10, 11, 12)
Track Leadership Group (11, 12)
NHS (11, 12)
Math League (11, 12)
Michigan Math Prize (12)
Senior Class Council (12)
Coalition Teen Council (12)
Awards:
All-Academic Team
Honor Roll
AP Scholar
Teacher Recs:
I waived my right to read them but I got them from my APUSH and human bio teachers. My bio teacher had me my junior year for AP Bio so she knows me really well. My APUSH teacher had me for the past two years because he taught Euro my sophomore year and then US my junior year and now he’s my advisor for Senior Class Council. I’ve got a good relationship with them so I’m not worried about what they wrote.
Other Recs:
I got one from my track coach and we’ve got a really strong relationship. I’m the only senior boy on our team who has been on varsity since our freshman year so he’s gotten to really see me grow as an athlete and person.
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.
Having mentioned all of the above, I concur with @mrug23 that your chances are 50-50 at best, under ordinary circumstances; but I don’t know whether your intended area of study will make it more likely that you will have a positive admissions outcome.
@gandalf78 are you sure you mean 1350+ for SAT and 34+ for ACT? Those scores are extremely far apart, since a 1350 is equivalent to a 29 on the ACT, and a 34 is equivalent to a 1540 on the SAT.
@gsw1999: I have looked at our school’s Naviance scores (going back about 7 years worth of data), and it’s probably closer to 1400+ than 1350+, which would put it at an equivalent of 30 on the ACT. I suspect that most of those lower SAT scores are not as recent, although I can’t say for sure; most of the more recent data for our school seems to correspond to the higher ACT scores.
That discrepancy may also reflect differential scoring between SAT and ACT for any given student. A guy I know who runs a test prep service tells me that usually a person will do better on either the SAT or the ACT; and an accepted OOS student who had a lower SAT score might also have had a higher ACT – which is how it worked out for my first-year student, who had a 34 ACT and a 1330 SAT – but the Naviance shows both.