<p>I am a white female who lives in Virginia. I'm a public-school senior.
I applied early action.
Grades
Straight A's- GPA is about 4.6, ranked 3rd in class of over 600 students
Classes
9th grade: Honors English, Honors World Civilizations, Geometry, Chemistry, Spanish II, Human Growth and Development, and Physical Education
10th grade: AP World Civilizations, Honors English, Honors Algebra II/Trig, Honors Biology, Spanish III, Physical Education, and Journalism I
11th grade: AP U.S. History, AP English Language, AP Biology (counts as 2 classes), Spanish IV, Precalculus, and Newspaper
12th grade: AP Gov., AP English Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Lang, Honors Physics, and Newspaper
SAT
2140 total (720 Reading, 680 Math, 740 Writing)
Subject tests: 730 World History, 800 Biology (and I plan to take one in Spanish this fall)
EC's
National Junior Honor Society (9th and 10th grade)
National Honor Society (11th and 12th grade)
Key Club (9th-12th grade; officer in 10th grade)
Newspaper (11th and 12th grade; is a class but requires after school time as well); I am a managing editor of the school paper this year
Spanish Governor's School for 3 weeks (right after 11th grade ended)</p>
<p>Recognized for PSAT scorecommended student</p>
<p>Good chance, though nothing’s certain. I’m sure your in IS at UVa or WM if you are applying.</p>
<p>Just like any NC student who applied to UVa, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better school than your flagship. Any difference in quality (depending on the department/program) is inconsequential when factoring in Instate vs. OOS cost of attendance. </p>
<p>Best of luck in the process. I think you are going to have some great options.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response!</p>
<p>well, dang. you definetly made me look like crap.
im 98% sure youll be accepted…i would def accept you haha:)</p>
<p>great statistics. I see we share many similar stats, however yours are even stronger than my own. Best of luck. Hopefully we are both accepted!!!</p>
<p>by the way, I think you have a very solid chance</p>
<p>You have a nice solid chance as an OOS applicant. You have rigorous AP courses and to top it all of, you made all straight A’s. This indicates how much of a hard worker you are. You’re in the range for OOS students when it comes to SAT score. It will never hurt to take it again. You still have November to redeem yourself. As for EC’s, you have a lot going on, which is a good thing because in some of your EC’s you indicated a leadership role! I’d say you have a shot, but being OOS does hurt. Apply to other in-state schools that fit your major as a backup.</p>
<p>I think you have a good chance for admission out-of-state to Carolina! Our profiles look amazingly similar when it comes to classload and your SAT is 90 points higher than mine! Congratulations on your GPA and your class rank, that is AWESOME and is by far the brightest star on your very bright application; you’re straight As and that is one rare dude! </p>
<p>I truly think that the SAT/ACT is being de-valued; I’d be willing to bet that the academic record weighs in at 50% of the decision-process (school score/class rank/GPA/classes chosen and grades attained in those classes). I certainly don’t know this to be a fact, but I glean this and I think it’s important to acknowledege that we have put way, way too much focus on standardized testing. It has a weight, for sure, but I wonder if it’s about 15% of the final weight. I bet that it’s around there. I’m guessing 50 for the academic record, 20 for recommendations, 15 for the extracurriculars/essay quality and 15 for the standardized tests. </p>
<p>Good luck sarahcarolina!</p>
<p>the kitesurfer.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses! If I haven’t chanced any of you guys yet, post a link and I’ll be happy to. Kitesurfer, I’m curious as to why you think the SAT is being de-valued. Did you hear that from an admissions officer?</p>
<p>As dissemination of test material (prep courses, strategies, ways to beat the test) becomes more common, the validity of these tests are inversely affected. You aren’t really looking at latent ability/knowledge since people are fighting so hard to inflate their scores. Now its some sort of mix between their skills and how much time/money they can put into taking a test. In my opinion, a difference of a couple hundred points MAY say something about a student’s ability/knowledge, but splitting hairs over a 10, 20, 50 pt difference is meaningless but it also depends on where it occurs on the scale. Likely the person with a slightly higher score just paid to take the test one more time. </p>
<p>You also have to understand that the SAT was originally designed with a mean of 500 pts and a standard deviation of 100 pts. So that (using our intro stats) 2 SD above the mean (i.e. 700) is 98th percentile and 3SD (i.e. 800) should mean you are a statistical outlier. Now it’s commonplace for people to think they don’t have ‘good’ scores when they make a 600 - 1SD (which should be ~84th percentile of all test takers if you consult a standard distribution table). Our perceptions are so distorted. There is a huge ceiling effect and negative skew with the SATs of students applying to elite schools. The scale’s measurement capacity is compromised. </p>
<p>As such, some schools around the country moving away from heavy weighting of SAT/standardized scores (Wake Forest for instance made test scores optional). </p>
<p>However, standardized tests are also being used at some schools as cut points to weed out the large application pools. They aren’t really involved in admissions decisions past that. For many graduate programs (speaking with a few people on admissions committees), for example, they throw out every application that doesn’t have a 1400 GRE and a 3.6 GPA. From there they don’t really care how high your GRE or GPA is. They then just look at recommendations, work experience, essays etc.</p>