<p>Hey everyone. I was deferred on the 21st, which I've recently recovered from and regained faith. I was wondering if there was anything I could/should do in order to improve my application. I'm not going to retake the SAT or do the ACT, but is there anything that could improve my chances at all? I have done extremely well this semester, so that gives me some hope.. my grades are:</p>
<p>AP Chem: A
Chem. Lab Honors: A
AP Environmental Science: A
AP Calc AB: A
English 4 Honors: A
Honors Spanish Conversation/Composition: A</p>
<p>I can show my stats if that helps, but I definitely feel like I am more qualified from some of the people from my school who were accepted :/. Will my midyear report make me a strong candidate to get accepted? Thanks for reading :).</p>
<p>Looked at your chance thread, can’t believe you didn’t get in. Some kids from my school with stats not half as impressive as yours got in. I bet you get in from the wait list.</p>
<p>thanks guys! i really appreciate it. i’m just a bit nervous about it because i’ve come to like UNC and i’m upset that some people were taken over me.</p>
<p>I’m an international student from singapore, and I got deferred too, but the thing is our education system is different and I don’t have ‘mid-year grades’. So I have already taken my A Levels last year, but the results probably won’t be in until march. Should I just submit my predicted a level grades only (cos i have them now)?</p>
<p>icanhascollege, we are in the same place as you. Son was deferred. 33 on ACT. 650 CR, 750 M, 750 W on SAT, 11 on both ACT and SAT essay portions. GPA better and better every year, all As last year and this. Will graduate with 6 APs. Lots of leadership. Pres. of one organization, VP of two. Varsity sports. Great recs. WHO KNOWS? Looking at other accepted stats, it is hard to believe. I think it might be due to the fact that he goes to boarding school (we live in a rural area) out of state. I can’t help but believe that somehow this places him in a different mindset - like being compared with OOS. We don’t count on deferred, since there were 2,700 deferred last year and only about 200 got in out of that pool. Sigh.</p>
<p>investor, don’t be TOO worried, because I have heard that plenty of deferred people don’t submit their midyear grades (or don’t submit them properly), so they are automatically disqualified. The odds are really much higher than 10%.</p>
<p>To be fair, we don’t have all the information that the ADCOMs have. No matter what decision they make there will always be those that second guess them. I don’t envy them their jobs…</p>
<p>icanhascollege and investor both have credentials that would suggest that they would be a good match for UNC. PLEASE send in your mid-term grades so that you are in the roughly 50% of students deferred that remain in the application pool. Good luck to all of the deferred students here!</p>
<p>He sent in his grades the first day the link came up! Good to hear that not everyone submits (I would not have expected that). He did get a very good scholarship and honors program from another of his top choices, so he is feeling good about that right now. It is a long wait until March/April!</p>
<p>I sent in my midyear grades the day after! I feel confident because, if I had to guess, the main thing holding me back from acceptance was my lack of AP classes. I only took one before this year, but since I have been doing well this semester with three AP’s, I think that should help. Do you guys think that lack of AP’s could be what my deferral was based on?</p>