Chance Me: UNC RD 2022

Residency: OOS
Ethnicity: White
ACT: 34 composite
SAT: 1420 super-score
GPA: 4.81/5 W
Class Rank: 22/410 at a very competitive IB school
Classes Taken:
APUSH
AP Euro
AP Bio
AP Lit & Comp
Honors all freshman and sophomore years aside from AP classes
IB SL Psychology
IB HL Bio
All IB classes junior and senior year

Extracurricular:
Eagle Scout
4 year varsity letterman for soccer - two year varsity captain
Valedictorian Candidate
Florida Boys State Delegate
Future Business Leaders of America National Convention selection
Treasurer of FBLA
Secretary of Model UN
Youth United Way
School Newspaper
National Honor Society

I have been accepted at UF and FSU but UNC was kind of my reach school, just wondering how I stack up in the eyes of everyone on here.

Generally, the chances for any OOS applicant to UNC-CH are somewhat problematic due to the highly competitive nature of OOS applications there: UNC-CH 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. As a further example of the difficulty for OOS students to be admitted to UNC-CH, the entering Class of 2021 had a 14% acceptance rate for OOS applicants: http://admissions.unc.edu/apply/class-profile-2/.

Our OOS high school usually has 8-10 students who apply, and 1-2 students who are admitted, each year to UNC-CH; and, with the exception of legacy students, our admitted students have SAT scores of 1490+, ACT scores of 33+, and weighted GPAs of 4.4+. These successful applicants also were involved in extracurricular activities that showed commitment over time (no “drive-by” ECs), and demonstrated leadership in the school as well as their ECs. Other kids in our city who I know were admitted to UNC-CH recently also had similar academic statistics and non-academic characteristics; and all of these kids were “unhooked” in admissions parlance (i.e., not a recruited D-1 athlete, or a URM, first-generation college student, etc.).

Your ACT score and GPA certainly make you competitive for admission as an OOS applicant. If you have good essays and letters of recommendation, that will help; your leadership positions in your ECs should also help. The problem you are going to run into is that, as a RD applicant, you are in the pool with the deferred EA applicants as well as the RD applicants; and many – if not most – first year slots are filled during the EA round. So the competition during the RD round is very stiff, especially for OOS students (which is already tough).

You should hear something in the next 10 days. Best of luck to you!