Out-of-Staters... assemble!

<p>You know the deal, give your own little bio.</p>

<p>I'm Henry.</p>

<p>Stats:
* SAT: 1480/2200 (750M, 730CR, 720W)
* SAT IIs: 790 USH, 710 Math 1
* GPA: 98.82 weighted
* Rank: no rank (top 2 percent)
* Other stats: AP Euro 3, APUSH 4, AP Eng Lang 5</p>

<p>Subjective:
* Essays: good
* Teacher Recs: really good
* Counselor Rec: great
* Hook (if any): sister goes there (?)</p>

<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: NY
* School Type: private
* Ethnicity: white
* Gender: male</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
Secretary of NHS, football 9-12, crew 11-12, founded Midnight Run, Campus Ministry (Eucharistic minister), Math Team (#1 in school, #6 in league), and community service</p>

<p>*Other Schools
Georgetown (accepted), Notre Dame (accepted), Northeastern, SUNY Binghamton, Bentley, Case Western Reserve, and University of Richmond</p>

<p>You prefer UNC to Georgetown and Notre Dame?</p>

<p>Stats:
*ACT: 34 composite: 36 M, 34 S, can’t remember other 2

  • SAT: 1370/2070 (750 M, 620 V, 700 W)
  • SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 690 Physics
  • GPA: 4.27 W
  • Rank: Top 10%
  • Other stats: AP Euro 3, APUSH 2 (oops), then all the AP’s this year</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: good
  • Teacher Recs: great
  • Counselor Rec: really good
  • Hook (if any): nada</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: TX
  • School Type: private
  • Ethnicity: white
  • Gender: male</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
of Secretary NHS, football 9-12, baseball 11-12, founded charity poker tournament, some community service (20+ hours/year)</p>

<p>*Other Schools
Waiting on: UNC, UVA, Vandy
Accepted: UGA, UT(Austin), Purdue, Clemson</p>

<p>
[QUOTE=NewJerseyMom]

You prefer UNC to Georgetown and Notre Dame?

[/quote]
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<p>It’s about a tie between Georgetown and UNC.</p>

<p>Many have wondered if there has ever, in the space of 3 posts, been two 4-year football players in the history of College Confidential. Today, we have ourselves an answer.</p>

<p>I’ll add another</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1320/2020
  • SAT IIs: 680 Math II
  • GPA: 95
  • Rank: no rank
  • Other stats: AP Stat- 5 AP Gov-4</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: Really good, very different
  • Teacher Recs: Assume/ hope good
  • Counselor Rec: good i assume
  • Hook (if any): Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
    Will it help?</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: NJ
  • School Type: public
  • Ethnicity: Pacific Islander
  • Gender: male</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
Varisty football 9-12 (Captain), Varsity Indoor Track 9-12 (Captain, All-conference), Varsity Outdoor Track 9-12 (Captain, All-Conference), Peer Leaders, NHS, Lifeguard, Volunteer at Special Olympics, Camp Counselor (football)
*Other Schools
Brown, Columbia, GW, Duke, Wake</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1390/2010
SAT II: U.S. History 720
GPA: 95
Rank: 13/150, top 10%
Other: AP U.S. History- 5</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essay: I thought it was good
Teacher recs: hopefully good
Counselor rec: good
Hook: 1st generation college student..if that matters</p>

<p>Location:
State: PA
School type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
President of Key Club, member of NHS, treasurer of Student Council, captain of Debate Team, captain of Varsity Basketball team for 3 years, starter for 3 years, made 1st team all-division and won MVP for basketball, varsity tennis, chorus, I do the morning announcements, volunteered at nursing home, worked in the summer</p>

<p>Other schools:
Pitt, UConn…I want to be a pharmacist</p>

<p>SAT: 770 CR 630 M 740 W
SAT IIs: 770 USH, 760 Lit, 720 World
GPA: 3.78 UW, 4.51W
Rank: top ~6%
Other stats: AP Biology 5, AP World 4, AP USH 5, AP English 5
Current Classes: AP English Lit, AP Gov, AP Calculus AB</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Essays: Alright but nothing spectacular</p>

<p>Teacher Recs: One awesome, one good
Counselor Rec: ehh i hate it
Hook (if any): none really, i’m from west virginia (not virginia haha). nah don’t think that helps </p>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<p>State or Country: West Virginia
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: varsity xc captain, newspaper assistant editor, key club leadership… there’s more but i don’t feel like writing it</p>

<p>Other schools:
Accepted- U Michigan, Pitt, WVU
Deferred: Georgetown
Applying: UVA, Williams, Vandy, Washington and Lee, Tufts, there were way more but then i got into michigan! yay! but i would love to go to UNC</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1380/2040
SAT II: Math II 800, Physics 770, Chemistry 770
GPA: 92.3
Rank: top 10%</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essay: very fit to UNC
Teacher recs: good
Counselor rec: excellent
Location:
State: TX
School type: private</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Vice President of Student Council, captain of Debate Team, president of student organization, Volunteer in Hospice Program, manager of Volleyball League</p>

<p>Other schools:
Duke, Emory, UVa, UW</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1420/2180
  • SAT IIs: 760 USH, 620 Math 1, 670 Bio E
  • GPA: 95 uw
  • Rank: school does not rank
  • Other stats: AP Euro -5, APUSH - 5, AP Eng Lang - 5, AP Calc - 3, AP Chem - 3</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: pretty good
  • Teacher Recs: I’m not sure, but I would assume really good
  • Counselor Rec: great
  • Hook (if any): I don’t think I have any. My aunt & some other distant relatives went to UNC. One has Dean Dome seats.</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: NY
  • School Type: public
  • Ethnicity: white
  • Gender: female</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
Mock Trial Team Captain, National Honor Society President, competitive horseback riding 12 years, volunteer at a therapeutic riding program, write for local paper, certified in wildlife rehabilitation</p>

<p>*Other Schools
Elon (accepted), SUNY Binghamton (waiting), Davidson (RD), Wake (RD), Syracuse University Newhouse (RD), Cornell (RD), American (RD)</p>

<p>UNC is my top choice, woo hoo. Can’t wait till January.</p>

<p>This may not be the best place to post this, but in looking around this board, it strikes me that certain states have an affinity towards NC schools… While NY and Texas are both very large population wise (and therefore would have more students applying elsewhere, so-on and so-forth), in both the Elon board and the UNC-CH board, there seems to be many, many students applying from New York. </p>

<p>Does NC have that great of a reputation for strong schools up north? While I have recently come to realize that I am a native to a damn good state, I have spent my high school years listening to my friends complain about how much they hate NC, how they can’t wait to get out… the usual teenage restlessness and angst. </p>

<p>Now that I am in the throes of college admissions (though really, almost done), it has become obvious that NC has many good schools… but other states have colleges to be proud of as well. </p>

<p>Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed this?</p>

<p>New York has one of the worst state school systems, so that could be why.
We’ve had a few in my area of Pennsylvania. One girl who I graduated with is at UNC and a friend of mine from Delaware is also at UNC. We have much better luck with Duke, though :P</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1440/2190
  • SAT IIs: 780 US History 650 Math I
  • GPA: W 4.118
  • Rank: no rank
  • Other stats: AP Eng Lang- 5 AP US- 5 AP Gov-4</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: i thought they were good
  • Teacher Recs: very good
  • Counselor Rec: don’t know, hopefully good</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: NJ
  • School Type: public
  • Ethnicity: caucasian
  • Gender: female</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
Varisty tennis 9-12: Captain, 2 year state champion (team), NJ state doubles runner-up & 2007 All-state player, yearbook 10-12 Editor-in-Chief, newspaper 9-12, community service (a lot i don’t feel like listing)</p>

<p>*Other Schools
BC, Duke, Georgetown, Lehigh, USC, UVA</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1560/2310
  • SAT IIs: 780 Literature, 800 Math IIC, 760 Chemistry, 710 US History
  • ACT: 35
  • GPA: 3.968 UW
  • Rank: no rank
  • Other stats: AP Chem - 5, AP Calc AB - 5, AP Micro - 5, AP Macro - 5, AP Bio - 5, AP USH - 4, AP Stats - 3, AIME 4, 3</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: Working on them right now, but should be okay
  • Teacher Recs: should be great
  • Counselor Rec: should be good
  • Hook (if any): none</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: WA, as in really far away lol
  • School Type: public, small
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: female</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
FBLA co-founder/co-president, various awards at state level; Ignite Mentoring lead executive mentor, volunteer a lot at the local Blood Center, used to be NHS treasurer, designed a website for a local political campaign,</p>

<p>*Other Schools
Princeton, Duke, U Chicago, Yale, Brown, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, U Washington&lt;/p>

<p>also applied for the Robertson.</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1460/2190
  • SAT IIs: 800 Literature, 720 Math IIC, 660 Biology-Molecular, 700 US History
  • ACT: 33
  • GPA: 3.96 UW 4.4W
  • Rank: Top 5%
  • Other stats: AP Bio-5, AP European History-4, AP U.S. History-5</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: I think they are pretty good.
  • Teacher Recs: Should be pretty great, but I am regretting not getting one from a certain teacher who adores me.
  • Counselor Rec: Should be good
  • Hook (if any): None</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: FL
  • School Type: Catholic
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Gender: Female</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
National Honor Society Peer Tutoring Chair, SADD, Academic Quiz Team member, Model UN participant, Book Club member, 100+ hours community service</p>

<p>*Other Schools
NYU, Duke, Boston University, University of Miami, FSU</p>

<p>As a freshman from New York, I’ll be the first to tell you that going to school in the South is awesome. People are actually friendly!</p>

<p>New York’s public college system pretty much sucks. They have a billion campuses most of which are upstate schools that no one outside of NY have heard of. We don’t have anything even close to the calibur of a UNC, UVA, UMich, UCLA, etc. I’d say a large majority of New York’s most intelligent students go out of state or at least private.</p>

<p>As far as out of staters go, I’ve met some from New York, but a ton from Maryland, Florida, and Virginia.</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1530/2270 (Math:760, CR:770, Writing:740)
  • GPA: 3.75
  • Rank: School doesn’t rank, top 20%
  • Other stats: AP Chem-4, AP Statistics-4, AP Biology-5, AP Calculus BC-5, AP Physics-5</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: Excellent
  • Teacher Recs: Good
  • Counselor Rec: Good
  • Hook (if any): Nothing, really</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: GA
  • School Type: Private
  • Ethnicity: white
  • Gender: male</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:4 years marching band, 12th grade Drum Major, 4 years jazz band, 2 years musical pit orchestra, 1 year program to introduce 9th graders o high school, 2 years NHS, 300 hours community service</p>

<p>*Other Schools
UGA(accepted), Vanderbilt, UNC, Northwestern, Emory</p>

<p>OOS applicant from louisiana (but native yankee).</p>

<p>I’ve lived all over the place, Louisiana and NY heavily; neither of these states has good state schools.
UNC ftw!</p>

<p>Stats:
eh; 33 act, white, female, school doesn’t rank (private, small), great essays and letters, tennis, gymnastics, sci-olympiad, mu alpha theta, etc.</p>

<p>Sherbear offers son’s info Again due to originals error</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1340/2070 (Math:730, CR:62, Writing:730)
  • GPA: 4.02
  • Rank: School doesn’t rank, top 3%
  • Other stats: AP Chem-2 oops, AP US-4, AP Gov-4
    taking as a seniot AP Calculus BC-, AP Comp-Gov, AP Lit</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: Excellent
  • Teacher Recs: Excellent
  • Counselor Rec: Excellent–i think
  • Hook (if any): Legacy</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: GA
  • School Type: Private
  • Ethnicity: white
  • Gender: male</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars: Varsity Tennis 2 years, Ultimate Frisbee 3 years, Student Government, Academic Team (High Q TV show; we won), BBYO Officer 3 yeaars, BBall 3 years, Film Competition, Working at Grocery store part time for 3 years.</p>

<p>*Other Schools
UGA(accepted), Tulane (accepted w/Presidential Scholarship $24K annually), Vanderbilt, U of Miami, UNC, Duke, and Emory
salamisammich is offline</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT: 1550/2350 (750M, 8000CR, 800W)
  • ACT: took in December (expecting 33-35)
  • SAT IIs: none
  • GPA: 96.55 weighted (the weight is only +5 though)
  • Rank: 9/252 (though school does not officially rank)
  • Other stats: AP World History 5, APUSH 5, AP Eng Lit 5</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: great
  • Teacher Recs: not sure but i’m pretty sure they’re good
  • Counselor Rec: stellar
  • Hook (if any): URM</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: TX
  • School Type: Jesuit
  • Ethnicity: Latino
  • Gender: male</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars:
Texas State Junior Classical League First Vice President, Quiz Bowl (3 yrs varsity, 2 yrs captain, have qualified for regionals 2 yrs in a row, won district last year, leading district this year), President of Latin Club (11), Treasurer of NHS (11), Rugby 9-12 (3 letters), JV Swimming 9-11, Medical Society (9-12), School Ambassadors (9-11), Retreat Leader (11), Community Service (500+ hours over 4 years), National Hispanic Institute 9-12 (State runner up in extemporaneous speaking, team champions, volunteer coach for two years including a championship, Lt. Governor at LDZ Youth Legislative Session, volunteer counselor at LDZ, Collegiate World Series–Hall of Fame Award)

  • Honors: NM Semifinalist, National Hispanic Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholarship Semifinalist, bunch of in school awards, AP Scholar
    *Other Schools
    Notre Dame (accepted, Notre Dame Scholar), Tulane (accepted, $24k Presidential Scholarship, invited to Honors program), Texas (accepted under top ten percent law, accepted to Plan II Honors), may also apply to UF</p>

<p>I’m applying for the Pogue scholarship. If I get it there is a strong chance I will go to UNC. Otherwise I’ll probably be going to UT Plan II Honors.</p>

<p>I’m kinda sad that I’ve decided to look at other colleges rather late. I was fairly certain that I was going to go to Texas until I heard I got an email from UNC about the Pogue scholarship. I also kinda wish I had applied for the Robertson or Morehead and also for the Jefferson at UVA. Oh well, too late.</p>