<p>4.2 weighted GPA
1900 SAT (710CR, 600M, 590W)
Top 25% class rank
AP USH - 5
AP Lang- 4
AP Art History - 3
AP Lit- Senior
AP Gov- Senior
AP Chem- Senior</p>
<p>National Honors Society
Career-Technical Honors Society</p>
<p>People to People Student Ambassador to Japan</p>
<p>Volunteered at Angel Food and United Way
Volunteered at Special Olympics (11,12)</p>
<p>Im mostly worried about my weak EC's</p>
<p>Check out this link for last year’s class:</p>
<p>[First-Year</a> Full-Time Undergraduate Student Profile, Fall 2010 - Office of Institutional Research and Assessment](<a href=“http://oira.unc.edu/first-time-freshman-class-profile-fall.html]First-Year”>http://oira.unc.edu/first-time-freshman-class-profile-fall.html)</p>
<p>70 percent of students are in the top 10% of their class.
90 percent are in the top 20%</p>
<p>For class rank, this means you are in the bottom 10% overall (instate + OOS).</p>
<p>Your SAT M+R scores put you approximately in the 50th percentile for instate.</p>
<p>Average SAT scores of instate are 643R + 658M + 634W. Which means you are above average for your reading scores but not for math and writing.</p>
<p>What county are you from? Coming from more rural parts of the state is an advantage so is being an underrepresented minority. Honestly, your grades (though fine for a lot of schools) might keep you out of UNC even with improved test scores.</p>
<p>I recently went to the UNC Alumni admission forum and they said one of the biggest miconceptions about UNC admission is that the county you are from matters. It DOES NOT matter which county you are from there is no quota system like that.</p>
<p>But thank you for the link and the other information.</p>
<p>County does not matter, per se. But some rural areas have less competition, and hence people with lesser stats may have a higher class ranking, etc. </p>
<p>But Newton13, I would say you are borderline. I could see the EC’s being a bit too thin, and I’m not sure if the rest of your application will compensate for it. Is there any way you could retake the SAT, and possibly improve your score? I would consider that option. </p>
<p>But of course, please apply. You do have a good shot! </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Well I don’t think there are quotas and caps but the data I’ve seen indicates to me that you do have an advantage coming from a rural area. And UNC’s admission policy isn’t exactly crystal clear. Look at this statement from 1997 (I think?):</p>
<pre><code>Minorities. What about quotas for racial minorities? Although there are no actual quotas, there are some hazily defined admissions principles that result in special consideration for minority and/or disadvantaged backgrounds. Undergraduate admission s Associate Director Herbert Davis explained: "The entire UNC admissions process is based on affirmative action-an approach that makes our campus truly representative of the state’s population. If we weren’t interested in diversity, we would do as many schools do, and simply admit students with the highest SAT scores and grade point averages.
"But we think diversity is desirable. So we may choose an outstanding white student from a rural mountain community even though his or her scores may be less impressive than those recorded by a student from a metropolitan area.
“In the same way, we strive to admit promising young people from all walks of life even though their SATs may not be competitive. These days, minority applicants from middle-class backgrounds seldom need special consideration-they can compete on thei r own. But we do take a special look at applications from disadvantaged minority students who are promising in ways other than SAT scores and grades. However, we do not admit minority students who are not qualified for UNC over majority students who are qualified.”
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<p>Thank yall.
Im retaking the SAT in October.</p>
<p>For EC’s forgot to mention I worked sand blasting antique tractors for a couple of years for a individual.</p>