<p>Hello all, first post!
Ok long story short: Started out lazy in a local private school where I had around a 3.0 GPA. Transferred to an extremely poor rural high school for junior/senior year, and had around a 3.3 GPA (Was still lazy then). I dream of transffering to UNC-Chapel Hill, and start my first fall semester at a rather large community college in eastern NC. I'm a white male (UNC is 60% females last time I heard), in the too-well-off-for-financial-aid bracket.</p>
<p>High School EC's:
Ran XC (11th/12th)
Ran Indoor Track (11th/12th)
JV Tennis Captain (12th)
Competed in ECU's Model UN (12th)
Competed in NC Mock Trial Regional Round (12th)
Member of Political Science Club (12th)
No EC's from small private school</p>
<p>AP scores from small public school:
World History-4 (11th)
Gov't and Politics-4 (12th)
The small public school only offered 1 AP course in the humanities per year, so my options were extremely limited obviously.</p>
<p>SAT Scores:
Critical Reading-730
Math-520
Writing-590
Essay-8 </p>
<p>CC Summer Classes:
College Algebra-A
English 111-C (I'm getting it changed to a B by the dean)</p>
<p>CC Fall Courseload:
ACA 122 (College Transfer Success, which is required)
CIS 110 (Intro to Computers, also a requirement)
ENG 113
HEA 110
PSY 151
SPA 111
That's 16 hours, and I plan on taking over 20 during the spring semester
Current GPA: 3.0 (Stupid C-giving English teacher!)
Hopeful GPA after fall semester: 3.74 (a 4.0 if the dean changes my final exam to an A, which would be awesome!)</p>
<p>CC EC's:
Member of my community college's ambassador program, which selects 12 students from a body of about 3000 to act as outreach to the community. They've had quite a few ambassadors transfer to UNC-CH. I'm the secretary for my first year, and plan on being president of the organization next year.
Will try to tutor CC students in the humanities at the local tutoring center
United way fund raising board
I plan on trying to get 500 community service hours in my freshman year, which is an absolutely huge goal, I know, but I have to work towards something
Member of Sigma Alpha Pi (National Society of Leadership and Success)</p>
<p>Legacies at UNC:
My dad (BA in Economics)
My mom (BA in Nursing, MA in Nursing from UNC School of Nursing)
My uncle (BA in Criminal Justice, currently a judge on the state circuit) </p>
<p>So now for some questions:
Should I try to transfer in for my sophomore year, or just wait for junior when they don't really look at high school transcripts?
Should I retake the SAT to bump up my math and writing scores (I also wanna see if I can get an 800 on the CR section, out of curiosity)?
Do I have a chance? I pretty much woke up out of my lazy stupor my senior year (as you can tell from the EC's), but I realized that even my hardest efforts couldn't get me into UNC.
Will transferring from a CC (even with good grades) hurt my chances for a post-grad school from UNC? I'd love to go to law school, but I'm not sure how admissions officers will view a CC transfer, even if they continued getting good grades/being involved in UNC.
Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Advice is really appreciated!</p>