<p>I was deferred from unc. I attended both Academic day and Carolina up-close, and all they talked about was how if you got deferred semester grades would be extremely important since they wouldn't really have time to go over the whole application again. Will these grades get me in?</p>
<p>AP Physics A+
AP Statistics A
AP Psycology A
Calc III A
Harlem Renaissance(English IV) A</p>
<p>GPA(unweighted) 4.07
GPA(weighted) 4.87 (1 pt. for AP's & Calc 3)</p>
<p>I was made the Head of Schools List, and my GPA the best in my grade.</p>
<p>Can you retake the SAT to try to bring up the reading score?
tha is an option. Your grades are stellar! Find out if there is another test this spring, get a tutor, then retake...if you increase that score it will count and override the other one. Besides you need to go for that perfect math score you probably missed 1 and knew the answer! I know your type.</p>
<p>I have already taken the SAT's four times(I just can't read that fast-i should prolly have extra-time). I may consider it because I really want to got to UNC. I don't think I can improve on math(even though problems are super easy), I always make at least one careless error.
I just hope I can show them that I belong there based on this years grades. I am in the running for top scholar this year(Private school-very competitive).(definately top 3 in class for senior year)</p>
<p>Obviously if i had known you had taken it 4 times I would not have recommended. I would consider going and sitting down wiht an admissions counselor, talking to them about yourself, your strengths and your challenges, they can consider anything you wrote on your application so maybe you could do that and ask THEM what more can you do. Any awards you get you should immediately notify them no matter how small. Ask some others here if they thing a face to face visit would be appropriate and would help.</p>
<p>You might not like this suggestion but I have heard that the ACT is easier than the SAT and you might get a good score on that test. I have seen that happen many times.</p>
<p>I was very disappointed to see the contradiction in who go in, who got deferred and who got rejected. UNC tells you during their information session that the transcripts and grades are the most important. Yet, kids posted that they had low GPAs and high SATs and got in. So that leads me to think that they are not looking closely at the apps but quickly going thru them. Now, I know that many are going to blast me for this comment cause you all think unc can do not wrong. But to admit a kid with a high SAT and low GPA (I don't mean low like 3.99 instead of 4.2) I mean 3.4 or 3.5. Doesn't that tell most people that either the kid took no honors and AP classes or that the kid did not try much? and in either case, that kind of equals lazy? This is a very good school but not one that you should be stressing like this over. Princeton or UVA yes, those carry much weight in the work world. But unc does not have the same name in say NYC, or Chicago.</p>
<p>UNC being a STATE school looks at family background. That is why they ask such detailed questions about parent education and where your parents attended school. If you are from a wealthy community or attended an expensive high performing private school they do expect much more from you than the applicant who came from a small town and middle-working class background and a struggling North Carolina public school. You have much more "cultural capital" and other advantages and should produce high scores when compared to the kid that did it all by himself. UNC takes in many "diamonds in the rough"-bright kids with less economic opportunities who, had the economic playing field been level, would have done just as well as you or myself. Trust me, they are not sloppy with their applications. The fact that they turned you away supports the fact that they look carefully at who you are and where you came from. For example, I know they are not at all impressed with expensive summer experiences (eg: Harvard programs). They would much rather see an applicant who faced some type of adversity or did something that did not involve a cash outlay from parents.</p>
<p>clarification-when I speak of "did it all by himself", I mean without parental money for test preps, tutors, enrichment and summer experiences. I know wealthy students do work hard at the prep courses, summer experiences but their scores should never be compared to a student who spent his/her summer working at Walmart and only had the assistance of a SAT prep book (probably borrowed from the library) to prepare for college.</p>
<p>i didn't apply! my brother did and he got accepted into a very high selective school ea. They may be careful with their apps but to state GPA is important and then accept kids with low GPAs is odd. And diamonds in the rough? give me a break. If you don't try in hs, you won't try in college. money has nothing to do with making a b instead of an A. It is called studying and trying.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if this answers your question/concern, but I'm pretty sure that UNC doesn't look at the weighted GPA. Most schools don't, from what I remember hearing. It wouldn't make sense to, because not every school has the same course offering. They check out the unweighted, and then they look at the rigor of courses taken. I have no idea which scores you're referencing because I didn't really look at that thread, but are you sure that the 3.4s are weighted GPAs? They very well could be, but I'd just check that.</p>
<p>I definitely don't think that UNC can do no wrong, but I do have a lot of trust in their admission's process. Keep in mind how small this sample size is, and how they're self selecting.</p>
<p>Carnut,
My post did not endorse low GPAs or imply that a low GPA is a "diamond in the rough". The "diamond in the rough" is the average SAT score from a rural high school with few or no AP classes and is at the top of their class with a solid GPA, not a poor performing student. The only lower (meaning below an unweighted GPA of 3.3) getting into UNC that I am aware of (I live in CH and I send students to UNC from my community college) are some legacies and athletes.</p>
<p>I don't know how the thread got here, but I am not a lazy kid. I may have got several B's Freshmen and Sophemore year, but I was doing the same amount of work then as I am now. Stuff just clicks for me now. I know what to do to make good grades, while still learning(one can occur without the other[both ways too]). I would just hate not to get in when I know I could be top 10% at UNC.</p>
<p>Pretty good...
Vice-President Math Club
Vice-President Science Club
Bowtie Service Club
Big Brother Big sister
Work at Special Olympics
Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity Store</p>
<p>Honors list(2x)
Head of Schools(2x)
Top Student in Physics Award</p>
<p>Varsity Soccer(2yrs) & Tennis(4yrs)
These are about all of them.</p>
<p>Also, one more question. Since the early action decisions came out a week or so early, then can we expect the same for RD/DD???
DD=deferred decision</p>