Chances for UNC out of state

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<p>African American male</p>

<p>3.7 unweighted GPA...4.2 weighted (slight dip sophemore year but brought it up)</p>

<p>31 ACT </p>

<p>Extracurricular stuff: </p>

<p>Middle States Accreditation Student Commitee Representative - I was selected to be the student representative in my school's Accreditation Process. This lasted about three years. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.css-msa.org/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.css-msa.org/&lt;/a> </p>

<p>Spanish CLub -President</p>

<p>U.S. Dept of Education Intern- 40 hours a week for 10 weeks </p>

<p>Community Service Tutoring - tutoring kids at my elementary school 100 hrs </p>

<p>Track and Field Team - ran in the 200 and 400m and did long and high jump (grades 9-11) </p>

<p>Mutlicultural Student Alliance- Officer</p>

<p>National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine -got me interested in a career in Medicine/Biology </p>

<p>Job at grocery store during school year- 15 hours a week </p>

<p>Alpha Phi Alpha Leadership Devleopment Insittute- </p>

<p><a href="http://www.alphaphialpha.net/alpha/t...jects/lti.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.alphaphialpha.net/alpha/t...jects/lti.html&lt;/a> </p>

<p>Awards </p>

<p>National honor Society </p>

<p>Spanish Honor Society </p>

<p>A few track Awards </p>

<p>De La Salle Scholars Program-basically I am in the top of my class and get a $6,000 scholarship annually </p>

<p><a href="http://www.stjohns-chs.org/course_catalog/scholars.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stjohns-chs.org/course_catalog/scholars.html&lt;/a> </p>

<p>Nomination for Washington Metropolitan Scholars</p>

<p>Attended UNC HS Honors Day...they said it would help my app....but i dont know by how much</p>

<p><a href="http://www.unc.edu/diversity/prospective/hshonors.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.unc.edu/diversity/prospective/hshonors.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>bump....i just visited and i want to go there but im scared lol</p>

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<p>About a 15% chance.</p>

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<p>i know its hard 2 get in but i think i might have more than 15% chance lol</p>

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<p>My friend's neice was salutatorian at her hs in Tenn, got rejected by UNC. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, sorry.</p>

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<p>yea i know....im hopin URM will count for sumthin....i dont want to start a huge debate by saying that either</p>

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<p>Most state schools can't count URM status although I don't know about UNC in particular.</p>

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<p>i think thats california schools</p>

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<p>Yeah UNC has plenty of minority students. That will not help you much.
Have you taken hard classes (APs, etc.)? A 3.7 unweighted isn't amazing but it's not bad. I'd say it's your weak point. Have you gotten any grades below B? </p>

<p>I'd say you have a good chance. Good luck, definitely try applying for the Pogue Scholarship. I'm not sure, maybe it's just for in-state students...but anyway go ahead and look into it.</p>

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<p>It's hardly just CA. Michigan had the biggest law suit.</p>

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<p>yeah my GPA would be about a 3.8 without sophemore year which is better....my counselor is writing a note about my sophemore year. I am going to apply to UNC but im not expecting to get in. Thanx tho</p>

<p>P.S. Michigan is still very big on AA from what i am told</p>

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<p>15% was probably being generous....</p>

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<p>o yea im in the top 6% of my class of 234...competitive school i might add</p>

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<p>jaw, its been said many times that UNC is difficult to get into, and even more difficult if you're out of state. My friend from Ohio had great stats, was editor of 2 yearbooks, president of 2 honor societies, class prez, won a journalism internship competing against applicants across the country (thats how I met him) and STILL got rejected.</p>

<p>Basically, its very very hard. I think less than 20% of their acceptances come from out of state, but don't quote me.</p>

<p>Its probably a reach for most people, and its probably a reach for you. But that's not to say you don't have a shot. Just apply. You never know. I wish I had the guts to even apply at UNC (great journalism program)...but I don't.</p>

<p>Good luck :)</p>

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<p>I believe it's 18%</p>