Chances!!!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>Hispanic Male
San Antonio, TX
GPA: really do not know, I have taking all AP courses throughout highschool and my weighted average is like a 94.75</p>

<p>My sister currently attends and is doing well (no idea if that helps)</p>

<p>will be taking: AP Literature, AP Calc BC, AP Gov/Econ, AP Music Theory, Varsity Tennis (captain), Student Council, forgot the other AP </p>

<p>SAT: 640 verb, 670 math, 600 wr (7 essay)
Second SAT: 520 verb, 740 math, 620 wr (8)
SAT II US History: 640
Taking Math II and Lit II in october
AP's: W Hist 3, US Hist 4, Stats 4, Eng lang 4</p>

<p>EC:
Mu Alpha Theta 10-12 (Math honor thing)
Best Buddies (Mentor special needs kids)
Tennis Varsity all four years
Varsity Water Polo 11 and 12
Student Council President 12
Politics club 10-12
Interact11-12</p>

<p>Work experience:
Clothing store sales assistent
Intern at natural gas brokerage firm
Lifeguard in summer
Intern at Mutual Fund this summer</p>

<p>Fluent French
Conversant Portuegese</p>

<p>I am looking to major in business but since that doesn't matter for applicants it doesnt matter on this form. Chance me!!!</p>

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<p>oh and class rank wasn’t too savvy when we got our rank last summer (116). About 1/3 with a 93.33, now I should be just at 25%</p>

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<p>Sorry to say, but UNC pretty much takes top 1%-5% for out of state applicants. It does not hurt to try, but apply with the attitude of not getting in, so if you do it’s a huge reward, but if not, then you knew it was real long shot and you won’t be upset.</p>

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<p>^
Agreed.</p>

<p>OOS applicants need to be in the top 25th percentile in regards to GPA and test scores to be competitive.</p>

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<p>my sister was accepted even though she was not in top 10%, albiet her GPA was higher, my test scores are higher than hers though…</p>

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<p>It’s definitely worth a shot…superscored, your SAT is pretty good. Just try to bring up your GPA, although it is an A…do you attend a really competitive high school? Seems like your rank should be higher.</p>

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<p>yeah the high school, although public, is very very competative. UT likes our high school in texas, at least 13 people attend each year</p>

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<p>^I wish I still lived in Texas…I really wanna go to UT…</p>

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<p>Being a URM and having your sister there will give you a bump in admissions but hard to say how much of one. You are also aided by being male since the m/f ratio is 40/60.</p>

<p>My advice is make your essays really strong and make sure your LORs are equally strong.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Agree with eadad…focus on the essay. </p>

<p>My d is a senior at UNC (Houston) and though she was a NMF, was barely top ten percent because AP coursework does not received extra weighting in our district . She had an extremely strong courseload similar to yours. Rank will be considered in the context of coursework quality, so don’t make an automatic presumption that yours is too low.</p>