Chance Me?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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I applied EA :slight_smile: but out of state applicant

Demographics: Female asian, from Florida, looking to major in Chemistry

Academics:

New SAT:1550/1600, (750CR,800Math), 23/24 Writing.
SAT II: Math 2 (800), Chemistry (780), Biology (800)

ACT: Composite: 36 (36M, 36R, 35S, 35E) Writing: 11/12

Class rank: top 1%

GPA: 4.00 UW.

Coursework: IB Diploma Candidate; AP Calc BC (5), AP Chemistry (5), AP Physics I (4), AP US History (5), AP European History (5), AP Biology (5), AP Environmental Science (5), AP English Literature (5), AP English Language (5), IB Biology SL (7), IB Environmental Systems and Society (7)
College Courses: Organic Chemistry (A)

Currently taking Differential Equations and Calculus III at local University

Extracurriculars and Awards:

Captain of Astronaut’s Challenge Team (2 years); won first at state engineering challenge

Mu Alpha Theta: Vice President; Calculus coach

Science Fair: First place at regionals; third place at states (Researched how to predict cancer cells’ sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs)

NHS: 2 years (Volunteer work every month)

LEO Club: 3 years; Treasurer; volunteer work (raise money for various organizations)

AIME Qualifier and went to Math Prize for Girls at MIT

Selected as one of 40 students from Florida for Young Scholars Program: research focus: designing and synthesizing a novel recyclable olefin metathesis (got a really solid rec letter from this program)

Volunteer at local hospital: 10 hours a week, primarily working at the Oncology Clinic

National English Honors Society: 3 years; secretary; editor of Schools’ literary magazine and leader of Cinematography subclub

National AP Scholar

How are my chances? :slight_smile:

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lol you’ll get in
Although out of state is really competitive, with you I’d really be surprised if you didn’t get in.

Unless your essays were terrible. So make sure your essays are good :slight_smile:

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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 composite ACT scores of 34+ and weighted GPAs of 4.5+. Other kids in our city who I know were admitted to UNC-CH recently have also had similar statistics. 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 have looked at the UNC-CH common data set, you will see that 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.

You should be extremely competitive for admissions, based on your objective criteria; and if your essays are good, I would be surprised if you were not admitted. Of course, there are no guarantees in college admissions; but if I were you I would be very optimistic about your chances.

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How many times am I gonna see that same message

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^^ How many times are people going to post chance me threads? The message could just be check the CDS and see what UNC-CH values and how your data stacks up. No one can legitimately answer a chance me any other way.

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@SamChang: As long as people keep asking, I’ll share the data with them. And as @Dolemite correctly states, no one can legitimately answer a “chance me” any other way; except maybe an admissions officer, and the AOs will be officially answering those questions by the end of this year for the EA applicants.