Chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z North Carolina State University
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<p>With EA decisons right around the corner I am paranoid that I won't get in. I am just looking for honest opinions about my chances.</p>

<p>SAT Scores superscored CR: 700 M:520 W:590 E:8 (Math is the weakest being 10 points below the 50% mark but the other scores are in the 75th percintile)</p>

<p>SAT II: Literature 650</p>

<p>ACT: 26 <a href="high%20end%20of%20middle%2050%">E 26, M 24, R 31, S 23</a></p>

<p>My GPA is currently about a 3.8, mostly A's and a few B's. Only a couple APs but many dual enrollment classes. I have a 4.0 college GPA.</p>

<p>At the CC:
Biology I
Biology II
Chemistry I
Sociology
Intro Business
Business Law I
Astronomy I
Astronomy II
PE</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>I worked as a waitress for 8 months.</p>

<p>I worked as a groom for 6 months in a high scale boarding barn.</p>

<p>I have been the weekend barn manager for the past 2 years at the same barn.</p>

<p>I was on my Church's youth Council for 4 years, VP for 1 year.</p>

<p>I have been a working student under the UNC-Chapel Hill Equestrian team coach/PE instructor for the past 6 years. Assiting both with lessons and the team.</p>

<p>I've been teaching beginner riding at a summer camp for the past 3 years.</p>

<p>I've bought, cared for and trained my own horse (ex-racehorse) from the ground up with no financial help from my parents. I am very committed to her and that is where the majority of my time is spent out side of school when I'm not working.</p>

<p>I have run a small business for 5 years breeding, selling, and showing poultry. I also sell eating eggs and live fertile show quality poultry eggs. </p>

<p>I've played the piano for 10 years, played on my church's praise team for 2 years.</p>

<p>I spent a month in Mexico working in a midwife's home and attending a spanish language school.</p>

<p>I spent 1 weeks in New Orleans after Katrina hit rebuilding houses.</p>

<p>I plan to major in Biochemistry and minor in Spanish, eventually I want to go to pharmacy school.</p>

<p>My essay was okay and short answers were pretty good. Idk I'm not a very good judge of my own work. </p>

<p>Recommendation letters will be from my Trainer (UNC PE teacher/coach), my Sociology teacher (from the CC), I've read both and in my opinion they are excellent.</p>

<p>I have been homeschooled all through highschool. I will not need financial aid. I am in-state.</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance to get in. Did you get the email from NC State today too?</p>

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<p>No, what did yours say?</p>

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<p>Yea I would also like to know what that email said?</p>

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<p>I think you’re in. All the email said was application status can be checked through wolfpaw and that decision letters will also be posted there (so for first deadline folks that’s next Tuesday).</p>

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<p>Yep, I’ll know next week one way or another.</p>

<p>Do you think it would hurt me that my 1st choice is Biochem and my 2nd choice is English, since they are so different?</p>

<p>I found a couple of spelling errors in my app, do you think they will fault me for that?</p>

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<p>I don’t think that choice of majors will hurt you at all.</p>

<p>A few spelling errors are fine - mistakes happen. It won’t hurt you unless they are widespread - in which case the admissions committee will see it as an indication of carelessness.</p>

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<p>I got the email too! The few errors are all in the same short-answer paragraph, apparently I forgot to proofread that one.</p>