<p>I applied EA to UNC. I put my major down as excersize and sport science, and want to do the sport management part in that program(but no where to specify it). Do you think it is easier to get into that program then most?</p>
<p>Also my stats
ACT 31: english 27 MAth 35 Reading 32 Science 28 COmposite writing 28</p>
<p>GPA of 3.5 at a top 20 private school in the country(school that 25 percent go to IVY's)
while taking a hard schedule</p>
<p>Out of state</p>
<p>Great extra curriculars with many relating to my major.</p>
<p>chances are pretty good. i'm not sure as far as excersize and sport science goes, but i know that the major can play a role in admission. for example and female majoring in the math and sciences might have an easier time getting in. also a black male may have an easier time getting in with a humanities major than a business major. if you are applying for the most popular major it will be harder to get into than if you are applying for a less popular major.</p>
<p>i know of guy who applied to NCSU but he didn't have NCSU grades so he applied as a Poultry Science major. He got in.</p>
<p>Really, if you think about it, it doesn't matter what you put down on your app. You can always change your major. Also remember that when you don't really start your major until junior year. at UNC the first two years are mostly gen ed unless you are trying to be a business major or another major that requires prerequisites. Also for some of these, again such as business administration, you apply during your sophmore year.</p>
<p>What you start out thinking you are going to do, might not be what you end up doing.</p>
<p>This is my second time around with this process. I have learned that for the large schools that get 20,000 apps a year, if you do not have the basic requirements, you do not even get considered. That does not include the kids that have a hook...legacy, minority, etc. </p>
<p>But think about it. If a kid applies to a school with a 3.5 and a 1800 on an SAT and the school clearly states it is looking for a 4.1 and or a 2100, then why would they bother to read the app when they know they are rejecting this person. UNLESS, that kid has something they really need like a quarterback or a sax player.</p>
<p>I think this generally is true for many schools where numbers are all that they review initially. I disagree with this statement about UNC. THey hand read every application. Yes some faster than others but, they do not screen out applications based on numbers.</p>
<p>they read every app even if the numbers are low. I hope so and that is great. Everything I have read says that large schools with over 20000 apps have to weed it down some way and that kind of makes sense. But if unc does not do it that way then good. My s's scores are good but it seems like those that post to this site are absolutely amazing with recs and scores, etc.
All I know is that his school says that being oos at unc is harder than most other schools because of the low ratio of oos students. So we have been told that his odds of getting into an ivy are better than unc!</p>
<p>130 kids, its one of those new york cutthroat kinds of schools, sort of want the complete opposite of it, aka reason why UNC is rigth at the top of my list.</p>
<p>I put Psychology as my intended major.
But now I'm greatly regretting that, because I've heard that most upcoming freshmen put that as their choice of major. It's very ...generic/cliche. </p>
<p>But then again, on the application it said that it doesn't matter and it doesn't affect your chances. </p>
<p>Yep, put down whatever major you're feeling at the moment. I'm sure it won't effect you - why would it? Everyone changes their minds, and everyone's put into the General College at first, so they have no reason to discriminate based off of major. No worries and good luck.</p>
<p>thanks and i put the major because their is a sub section i am interested that is part of it. They say they dont admit based of major, but its seem unlikely that that is entirely true.</p>
<p>I really doubt that picking a specific major matters because you could easily change your major once you got into UNC from whatever you put down on your application. If picking a specific major helped increase your chances of getting into UNC or picking a specific major hurt your chances, then wouldn't you think more people would pick the major that helped them and then change it later? I don't know, I may be rambling, but I think I'm pretty sure about this. NCSU looks at majors for admissions but UNC isn't known to look at that.</p>
<p>I suspect you're right, Cubsfan. At the schools we visited with our sons, including UNC, we had the impression they fully expect students to change majors at least once. This is a welcome departure from when I started college years ago, when there was considerable pressure to declare a major early and stick with it.</p>