Chances @ Duke, UNC, or NC State?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am trying to get a sense of what my chances are for Duke, UNC chapel hill, and Nc state

Bio:
-State of residence: North Carolina
-Class: Upper middle
-Race: white
-Gender: Female

School:
-Type (Public/private & size): Public, ~500 per class

Academic Profile:
-Unweighted GPA: 4.0
-Weighted GPA: 5.278 (a’s in AP classes are worth 6, honors 5, cp 4)
-AP’s (scores in parenthesis): stats (4), environmental science (4), world history (5), apush (2), physics (3), English Lang (4), psych (4)
-ACT: 32 (32 E 32 M 31 R 32 S) with a 8/12 writing
-SAT: 1470, math=780, reading=690
-Rank: 6/487
-Course Rigor: Hardest possible (junior year Spanish 4 was honors but I wanted to take Spanish all 4 years instead of taking an AP class, and senior year Spanish is AP)
-Senior Courseload: AP English lit, AP human geo, AP chemistry, AP bio, AP calc AB, AP Spanish

EC:

  • science Olympiad (placed 1st in regional competition, placed 7th in state competition)
    -national honor society
    -Spanish honor society (frequent peer tutoring for Spanish, organized Spanish bulletin boards around school)
    -Spanish club
  • JV lacrosse for 2 years (I stopped playing to make time for work to pay for my own car) … is this even worth mentioning since I quit???

Volunteering:
-organized multiple fundraisers for local food bank
-participated in fundraisers for boys and girls club of nc

  • counselor at week long camp for disabled children
  • volunteer at several homeless shelters around my area

Honors:
-AP scholar
-AP scholar with honor
-AP scholar with distinction
-nominated to participate in American mathematics competition 10

Work:

  • part time job at local bakery
    -promoted to shift manager
    -working for over a year (since July 2016)
  • over 30 hrs/week in the summer, 15-20 hrs/week during school year

Intended major:
-still not completely sure but I’m considering chemistry or chemical engineering

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should highlight in my application? Any advice helps- thanks!

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Come to UNC. Our chemistry program is ranked better than dook’s. Plus you’ll have a lot more fun in Chapel Hill. There is nothing to do in Durham.

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Thanks! I’ve heard that too, but do you think I have a chance of getting into chapel hill?

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Yes I think you do!.. Although there is no chemical engineering.

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@ncgirl44 yes a very good chance

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Bump

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Ask yourself this: what about you is special and unique? Think about it this way, college is a game in which we are all trying to sell the buyer (the admissions officers) a product (ourselves). We have to convince them that our product is the best there is, and there isn’t anything out there like it. Yes, every product has it’s flaws, but it’s strengths must outweigh it. Now, imagine that there are 10,000 products to pick, and a budget of 1,000. How are you going to beat out ten other people?

You sound like you don’t quite have a solid grasp on who you are as a person. You should not mention quitting lacrosse, especially since your reason was to work more to buy a car. If you quit to support your family, then it would make a great story, but otherwise, it sounds like you are more dedicated to getting material possessions than being part of a team and following a passion through.

I think you need to try to figure out who you are. What do you want to get out of high school, out of college, out of life? It’s time you take a deeper look into who you are, and then learn to market that.

***If any of this sounded harsh, I didn’t mean it that way. You just remind me of a very good friend who is in the same position as you. (She quit the volleyball team for a part time job at starbucks)

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Thank you sm!! Super helpful thanks for being honest