<p>Background:
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Grade: Senior
School: Illinois Public
Major: Psychology or Biology</p>
<p>Objective:
ACT: 33 (36 English, 34 Reading, 31 Math, 29 Science, 10 Writing)
SAT II: 760 US History, 680 Literature (not sending Lit)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9 (3.8 after first semester senior year)
Rank: 10/323
AP: Euro-4, US-5, English Language-4
Senior Year Course Load: Government, Consumer Ed, AP French, AP Psych, AP Bio, AP Calc AB, AP Literature
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar
PSAT: 200</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Peer Mediation (CoPresident), Key Club, NHS, Freshmen Mentoring.
Job/Work Experience: Kumon for 2 years tutoring kids.
Volunteer/Community service: NHS/Key Club (100hrs), Hospital Volunteering (50 hrs)
Summer Activities: Northwestern CTD 6 Summers in a row, Northwestern CPP, Latin Convention as the only attendee from my school, Leadership Convention.
Essays: Pretty Good.
Teacher Recommendation: excellent
Counselor Rec: does UNC need this? It will probably be okay though</p>
<p>-I was going to apply Early Action, but I also had about 5 other applications due at the same time so I didn't have time. Is UNC easier to get into Early Action? Because according to a few sources it's not but I'm still pretty skeptical.</p>
<p>UNC lets in about 40% early action overall, and about 20% regular decision overall, but the two groups are usually similar in stats, just stereotypically the stronger students apply earlier (not that you don’t fit that profile, it’s just what i’ve heard the trend is). i’ve heard it’s easier for OOS to get in early, but i’m not sure.</p>
<p>You look like a pretty good match, OOS at UNC is ridiculous, so even for the strongest applicant it’s a coin toss, but your record is good. I’m not sure how much weight Chapel Hill holds on the writing section, but the 10 on the writing section may hurt you.</p>
<p>UNC has a required guidance counselor form, you can print it out from their website.</p>
<p>Oh- good point, I thought the 10 in writing meant the combined english/writing section, which is out of 36 like the regular sections. Sorry about that. A 10 out of 12 is definitely good.</p>
<p>The usual trend for early action is that the stronger students stereotypically are more on top of things and send stuff in earlier. Also, i have heard you cannot qualify for the Morehead-Cain or other large scholarships if you apply regular decision. Therefore, stronger applicants that may be applying to Yale, etc, for restrictive early action will apply to UNC to see if they can qualify for a scholarship as a back-up plan for the original school. Also, since UNC early action is not binding, many stronger students will apply for the early action date so that they can have a solid back-up in January, in case they do not get accepted/enough money to Ivies,etc schools that all have regular decisions of April 1. Just knowing earlier is a big incentive to apply EA. However, plenty of great students apply regular decision.</p>
<p>Wow, most of you guys clearly don’t know what RESTRICTIVE Early Action constitutes. </p>
<p>Those who apply SCEA to Stanford or Yale are not allowed to apply early action or early decision to any other school, hence the less competitive applicants for OOS UNC Early Action.</p>
<p>If anything, more of the SCEA applicants will apply to UNC in regular decision if they are deferred or rejected from these top schools.</p>
<p>I meant that the standford, yale, etc people would apply to carolina early action because you can’t qualify for full rides if you apply regular decision, so if they got REJECTED from their restrictive early decisions schools, they will still have a good back-up school with scholarships.</p>
<p>If you apply restrictive early action to any school, you can still apply early action other places, as long it is not binding, such as UNC’s early action. Then, if you DO get into your restrictive early action school, you can still turn down the other schools without a penalty.</p>
<p>I see what you’re saying with the applicants to the ivies waiting to see whether or not they have been rejected or accepted early decisions to apply, but most would be smart enough to take the opportunity to possibly qualify for scholarships JUST IN CASE they don’t get into their first choice school. Also, the large majority of applicants to ivies do not apply restrictive early decision because of the question of money.</p>
That is very misleading. I’m not sure about Yale, but Stanford will let you apply to non-binding early action programs for public schools in your state, even if you apply to Stanford SCEA. There are other exceptions as well. Thus, an NC resident could apply to UNC early action as well as Stanford SCEA without breaking any rules. If you take the time to look, you will find that there are other exceptions to SCEA.</p>
This is also misleading. If you apply Restrictive Early Action, the only other early programs you can apply to are non-binding early action to public institutions in YOUR STATE. Thus, the OP could have applied to UNC Early Action, as well as Stanford SCEA. He could not, however, apply to MIT EA and Stanford SCEA because MIT is not in the OP’s state and it is not a public institution.</p>
<p>What you have both stated is incorrect. That is for ED schools, not for REA schools. REA has a few exceptions, of course.</p>
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<p>Right, but since we’re only discussing OOS applicants here, Ryan82 is essentially correct.</p>
<p>And motion12345 is correct as well. So OOS students could apply to UNC for scholarships, but not to, say, NC State where the early deadline is December 1.</p>