Applied EA (out of state- Florida), all IB and AP classes junior and senior year, 35 superscored ACT (34 composite), 4.32 weighted GPA, paid job at a law firm, unpaid internship on a congressional campaign, coxswain on rowing club team, youth in government club, vp of young democrats at school, camp counselor in North Carolina for three weeks this summer, service trip in Peru also this summer, in NHS but it’s not super competitive, service for the LYN fund which basically provides financial support for the families of women with cancer. I also babysit a lot and listed that on the activities page. I think my essays are pretty good. Recommendations from my boss, my boss from camp, two teachers that liked me and my counselor.
You’ve got good scores & ECs, but remember that UNC’s OOS acceptance rates are comparable to some Ivies, so I don’t think anyone can say if you will get accepted/rejected for sure. Best of luck to you.
Generally, the chances for any OOS applicant to UNC-CH are somewhat problematic due to the highly competitive nature of OOS applications there: UNC-CH admits OOS applicants in numbers that are calculated not to exceed 18% of an entering freshman class. See “Undergraduate Admissions” on Page 2, here: http://www.admissions.unc.edu/files/2013/09/Admissions__Policy.pdf. As a further example of the difficulty for OOS students to be admitted to UNC-CH, the entering Class of 2022 had a 13% acceptance rate for OOS applicants: https://uncnews.unc.edu/2018/08/17/carolina-welcomes-5095-new-undergraduate-students-to-campus/ (29,563 OOS applicants; 3,829 admits).
If you look at the UNC-CH Common Data Set, here, https://oira.unc.edu/files/2018/06/CDS_2017-2018_20180605.pdf , under Part C7 it states that standardized test scores, application essay(s), letter(s) of recommendation, and the 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. Extracurricular activities, talent, and character/personal qualities are considered as “very important” non-academic factors.
Further, Part C9 of the Common Data Set for UNC-CH gives the median 50% for both SAT and ACT scores, as well as the percentage of the entering first-year class falling within certain ranges of SAT and ACT scores; Part C11 gives the percentage of entering first-year students falling within a range of unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale, and Part C12 gives the average high school GPA of first-year applicants.
By way of comparison, our OOS high school usually has 8-10 students who apply, and 1-2 students who are admitted, each year to UNC-CH; and, with the exception of legacy students, our admitted students have SAT scores of 1500+, ACT scores of 33+, and weighted GPAs of 4.4+. These successful applicants also were involved in extracurricular activities that showed commitment over time (no “drive-by” ECs), and demonstrated leadership in the school as well as their ECs. Other kids in our city who I know were admitted to UNC-CH recently also had similar academic statistics and non-academic characteristics; and all of these kids were “unhooked” in admissions parlance (i.e., not a recruited D-1 athlete, or a URM (“under-represented minority”), first-generation college student, etc.). If you have an admissions “hook” such as URM, recruited D-1 athlete, first-generation college student, or OOS legacy, you may have a slightly easier path.
Having stated all of the above, your ACT score is competitive for the OOS applicant pool, your GPA likely so as well. I don’t know whether your high school has Naviance or any similar program that gives information about how students at your high school have done in applying to colleges and universities; if so, you might peruse that data.
Unfortunately I am all too aware of that, but thank you for your input. 