Chance me!

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>Just finished my junior year in high school. Class of 2012.
Ethnicity: Indian - Asian/American.
Possible Majors: Chemical Engineering, Business, Psychology or Social Sciences.</p>

<p>SAT: 2000 (650 M, 640 R, 710 W) in March Definitely scored around 2200 this June
ACT: 29
SAT II: 730 US History 710 Chemistry 690 Math 2C x_x
APs: AP Euro - 3; took Calculus AB, APUSH, Chem, and English examinations. * Definitely wrote solid 4s and 5s*
GPA: 3.70 unweighted - 4.0 weighted</p>

<p>Academically-related awards/activities, etc.
- JV Varsity Tennis **
- National Honor Society --> 5 service projects this year (36 school hours) **
- **Heritage Panel Officer
- French Club President
- Scholar's Bowl
- Quest, next year
- most likely Science Olympiad next year
- Intramural Basketball
- close to 50 school volunteer hours. 148 volunteer hours combined school and community
- Taking college classes College Psychology</p>

<p>ECs
- 148 hours community service; libraries, service days, odd jobs
- JV/Varsity Tennis 3 years up to this date
- Debate/Forensics 2 years and next year (maybe)
- 10 years of violin
- 5 consecutive years in local orchestra (pain to get into, too) played in Carnegie Hall
- 3 years of school orchestra</p>

<p>Other information:
- I'm from reasonable income bracket; both parents have decent occupations.</p>

<p>What do you guys think? Do I meet the criteria (or criterion) for college scholarships? And how about some of my collegiate prospects?</p>

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<p>OOS or instate? Also Carolina does not offer engineering degrees.</p>

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<p>^ they do for biomedical engineering, which is a joint venture with NC state. But in terms of chemical engineering…then no. However, the business prospect is something that UNC does specialize in. Perhaps this is why you included that one of your two prominent choices.</p>

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<p>Your biggest factor here is IS or OOS.</p>

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<p>SAT looks about average, GPA below average for UNC, extra-curriculars are good. It’s impossible to figure out what they’re looking for- they tell you that they place more emphasis on essays than test scores and that they look at the “total picture” of the student. Make sure your essays and recommendations are superb. By all means apply to UNC if that’s where you want to go- your qualifications do seem to be within the ball park- but have a good back up or two just in case. As far as honors or scholarships go, I wouldn’t hold my breath for that, but there are lots of outside scholarships to go for.</p>

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<p>basing everything off with the assumption that you’re instate… everything looks great besides gpa… it’s below average, so i would focus on that more than anything. raise it a bit, and you should be fine. don’t forget to beast your essays :)</p>