How Can I Increase My Chances of Being Accepted OOS into UNC Chapel Hill?

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<p>How Can I Increase My Chances of Being Accepted OOS into UNC Chapel Hill?
I just finished my sophomore year at a respected, blue ribbon public high school in New Jersey.</p>

<p>GRADES:</p>

<p>Freshman Year (I did really bad because my parents got divorced :/ )</p>

<p>Honors Geometry: B
Honors Physics: B+
Honors English I: A-
Honors American History: A-
Honors French II: B+</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:</p>

<p>Honors AlgebraII/Trigonometry: A
Honors Chemistry: A-
Honors English II: A
Honors World History: A
French III B+ (grr.. i'm dropping french its a gpa kill.. how bad will this look??)</p>

<p>Total Unweigted GPA is like a 3.7185.. i know it sucks, sorry.
Junior Year I am taking Honors Pre-Calc II, Honors English III, Latin I, AP Bio and AP US history II.
Senior Year I will take AP Calculus, AP Phyiscs, AP Psychology, Latin II, AP english IV</p>

<p>PSATs/SATs
On the sophomore PSAT, I got a 190 (72 math, 62 reading, 56 writing.) However, this will improve as I learned to improve writing and reading- I got a 2220 on a practice SAT! How good will it look if I receive Commended Scholar next year?</p>

<p>Extra Curricular's:
Soccer Referee
Earned Girl Scout Bronze and Silver Award, Working on Gold
Special Olympics
Interact
Key Club
Model UN
Will be in National Honors Society
Play field hockey for school
Earned presidential service award (Bronze)</p>

<p>Which will look best? Earning Girl Scout Gold Award, Earing Gold presidential service award, becoming officer of key club, becoming officer/leader of special olympics, becoming officer of national honors society, ANYTHING else I could do next year?</p>

<p>Which areas should I work on? UNC is my dream, I will do almost anything, except move to North Carolina as my mom won't let me</3 I would love to be in the Occupational Therapy program. I am just a white female, so I have no minorities to help me. Please give me any advice on anything I can do! Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>NM Commended scholar won’t do anything for you. Practice for the SAT over the summer and try for NMSF. Get the grades up. 95+% of entering freshman have a 3.75+. <a href=“http://oira.unc.edu/images/stories/factsAndFigures/dataSummaries/cmmnDataSet/cds_2011_2012.pdf[/url]”>http://oira.unc.edu/images/stories/factsAndFigures/dataSummaries/cmmnDataSet/cds_2011_2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My son is a rising Sophomore at Carolina. As my screen name indicates, we are InState. He attended a large, very competitive public high school where his unweighted 3.786 made him just outside the top 10% of his class therefore we were worried he wouldn’t get in. Telling you our InState story just to give you a little perspective on how important that GPA is. He had it, just barely, and still, lots of hand-wringing on Mom’s part before Acceptance Day.</p>

<p>The link from the previous poster says it best: 95.46% of incoming Freshmen had 3.75+. I don’t have your post in front of me (and I’m no math whiz) but will straight A’s next year pull you over that mark?</p>

<p>Look for threads on CC from posters who got in from OOS. They post their stats. A FEW OOSer’s got in with less than 3.75. Read through them to get a feel for their other creds.</p>

<p>A note on the Foreign Language: my son took French all the way through Sr year. Others may not agree with me on that, but we were told just having 2 HS years of a language is considered “bare minimum”.</p>

<p>Positive news: your grades are trending up. I’ve heard that gets taken into account.</p>

<p>Good Luck.</p>

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<p>OK, I just re-read your stats… you’re at 3.71! 3.75 well within your reach.</p>

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<p>If you want to go into occupational therapy, you need your EC leadership experience to be aligned with that. Don’t do things to boost your application; that’s disingenuous. Instead, focus on doing things that directly relate to your goals in life and become the best at those things. That looks super hot on your application.</p>

<p>Craig</p>