<p>I’m sorry, I didn’t realize how different grading scales were. In California a 90% in a class is 4 pts. while a 90% in an Honors or AP class is 5 pts. Our system doesn’t distinguish between a high A or low A.</p>
<p>shadowplayer</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the bar keeps rising every year for OOS admissions at UNC and if the financial crisis continues next year will probably be even tougher as more and more students recognize the value that a UNC education offers.</p>
<p>If you can, re-take the SATs or take the ACT. A score of 2110 is going to be in the low-middle range for an non-URM/OOS student. I’m not saying it’s impossible with that score but you would need everything else to be stellar so having higher scores takes a little pressure off the rest of the application. </p>
<p>There will be posters telling you how they got in with lower scores and it does happen but there are also many with very high scores who are wait listed or rejected. I am just trying to show you how to improve your odds. UNC does give considerable weight to the essays so work hard to make them as good as you can and also to make them stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>OOS Recruited athletes on full scholarships (so not all recruited athletes in all sports) and those receiving full academic or merit awards like the Morehead, Robertson, Carolina and other similar scholarships can now be counted as in state for both tuition purposes and OOS enrollment percentages. This has had a slight impact on the overall OOS percentage taking it to around 19-20% but it doesn’t alter the 18 percent rule for the rest of the class; it just means that all 630-650 spots can be filled with regular applicants that are not recruited athletes and it does open up more spots for non athletes than before they found the loophole.</p>
<p>I’m also looking to go to UNC as an out of stater. My sister got in two years ago before deciding to go to UCLA instead. I’m also from Southern California. I have a GPA of 4.41 approximately, putting me 9th in my graduating class, with an SAT score of 2230, although I’m planning on retaking it. About where does that put me? I’m also really involved in my church and my school.</p>
<p>DD was admitted 2009 EA OOS with W GPA 3.90 -4 AP’s completed at the time of application with 5 AP pending senior year (4.2 at graduation) 2220 SAT -very good personal essay.</p>
<p>Never heard of a 6.0 GPA scale. That’s pretty nuts if you ask me. At my high school 4.0 was considered perfection, and 3.5 was considered to be a pretty good GPA. The times are a changing, I guess.</p>
<p>Shadowplayer: I want to say that your stats are almost identical to mine.
I will apply to UNC Chapel Hill with a 2140 SAT (no ACT), a 4.35 wt gpa, ~7% at my school, and will have 10 APs by the time I’ve graduated. I ran track and played in the orchestra, with my share of volunteering and leadership.
The main difference is that I’m an In-State student. Honestly, I cannot see how much more competitive an OSS would have to be. I truly believe I have a fair chance of getting accepted, and that you do too. My counselor said I had a pretty good chance, too. Then again, time will only tell. :)</p>
<p>Eadad: I appreciate your advice about UNC’s high consideration of the essays.</p>
<p>Kraziespaghetti: You have a fair chance, imo.</p>
<p>Aigiqinf: Mecklenburg County NC (which houses NC’s most populous city, Charlotte) also grades upon the 7 point scale, like Wake County, and unlike the rest of the United States.</p>
<p>Cuze0507: Really, you’ve never heard of the weighted scale? It seems to me only logical to award more points to those who enroll in more challenging classes, in my opinion. To provide standardization and measure individual effort, however, most colleges today request an applicant’s weighted and unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>Actually, I’m applying to 2 CA schools believe it or not: UCBerkeley and UCLA – kind of ironic, eh. Do you think I could get into California schools?</p>
<p>@featherflurriesAll NC counties are supposed to grade according to the 7-point scale, I don’t live in Meck or Wake and we use the scale that DPI (Department of Public Instruction) requires, or “strongly encourages the use of”, whichever phrasing you like best. Also most NC private schools grade according to the DPI scal, though some use a weird weighting system that has 100 at 4.7 and 96 at 4.0, and goes down from there, with 1 QP being added for honors and 2 QPs being added for AP/IB.</p>
<p>What are my chances as an OSS from Puerto Rico with a weighted GPA of 3.8 and an SAT of 1850?</p>
<p>so what exactly is considered an URM? i’m half white/ half black, would that make me a URM? I know that at the other colleges i’ve been accepted too i’ve been getting a bunch of minority scholarships. do i have the choice of putting just black on applications?</p>