<p>I consider myself as an execllent student. By the end of my high school career, I will have taken 8 AP courses. The 4 I took this year, I made three 4's and a 5 on the exams. I am a straight A student, I have crazy extracurricular activities such as Student Government, Marching Band, Varsity Basketball, Beta Club, National Honors Society, and a volunteer club I created myself. I participate in youth choir and handbells at my church, several mission trips, and countless hours of volunteer work. I even earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, as well.
However, I am mostly afraid of SAT scores. I took the SAT as a 7th and 8th grader, but I have only taken it once that actually "counts." I scored:
Math: 600
Reading: 570
Writing: 620
for a composite score of 1790. I am planning to take it again and hopefully will do better (especially in reading) but should I be too worried about getting into colleges, especially UNC at Chapel Hill, with all of this in mind?</p>
<p>Are you instate or OOS? That’s going to be an important factor to acceptance. What’s your UW GPA? Your class rank? What are some things you did in your “crazy” ECs, especially the volunteer club? Any awards? Hooks?</p>
<p>I am instate. I have a 4.0 unweighted GPA, and weighted will be over a 5.0 when I graduate. My volunteer club consisted of 40 members at the end of last school year - we planned and carried out activities with residents at local nursing centers every month. I received my Bronze and Silver Awards in Girl Scouts, in addition to the Gold.</p>
<p>If you raise to about an 1850-1900 on your SAT you should be nearly guaranteed admission at UNC. I’m pretty sure they have a 92% IS quota.</p>
<p>I would hesitate to use the term “guaranteed” with UNC and any school that has a selectivity of 31%… for anyone applying. Your grades are great, but realistically, your SAT scores are below the 25% for UNC which lowers your chances of acceptance. I do hope they will improve some, but even with the best scores, UNC is never a guarantee.</p>
<p>Go ahead and apply- you never know, however, have some good schools in mind where you are more certain to get accepted. You have many good choices in NC. Look for the ones that have good departments in what you wish to study.</p>
<p>Instate students have an advantage over OOS. And it’s a huge advantage. I don’t believe an 1850-1900, which is what I advised the OP to raise to, is below the 25th percentile there. The OP doesn’t need his scores to be at the high end just in the middle
Percentiles because he is IS.</p>
<p>hmmmm everything looks good but yes definitely raise that SAT score, whats your passions? a bunch of ECs holds absolutely no weight, try to focus on one or two things and run with it, the self developed community service club is nice tho, i did the same thing(:</p>