<p>I was just deferred from UNC-CH (and it seems like I was pretty much the only one!) and I have a few questions about getting in.</p>
<p>I am female, OOS, 2180 SAT, 3.8 GPA...until this semester.</p>
<p>I got a 3.43 GPA this semester and clearly need to make up for this.</p>
<p>My battle strategy:</p>
<p>-Write them a nice letter saying how much I want to go there.
-Re-take the ACT shooting for a 33 or 34.
-Send in some clips of work I've done for my (regional, medium-sized, award-winning) paper for my internship.</p>
<p>But I can't forget it's a large university without the time to waste on letters and newspaper articles and the ACT is the only thing that could improve my application. Is that true? I wouldn't want to waste time doing things that won't help.</p>
<p>Will visiting campus help? I live far away, but we could go if necessary.</p>
<p>They also said additional letters of recommendation are not necessary. I do have one person who could give me a spectacular recommendation (he taught me at summer camp) but I wouldn't want to send it in if it won't help AT ALL.</p>
<p>Basically, will doing any of this help my application?</p>
<p>ALSO: If I do well on the ACT, how would I report that to schools? I wouldn't know until March 1 or so, would that be too late? Or should I just report it (using the ACT form) to my reach schools and cross my fingers? If not, would sending in a copy once I receive it work?</p>
<p>I also got deferred from UNC-CH early action. I have a 3.8 and a 2100 and it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who got left out! :) I talked to my counselor about retaking the SATs and she said that what would probably help more was sending in any award-winning materials. Since I'm involved in science research, I'm sending in my Intel paper and the results from competitions that are coming up in the next few weeks. I would strongly suggest sending in your internship paper. If they don't read it, they don't read it. But it can't hurt. I live in New York so I haven't visited either, but I was wondering about that also. Good luck!</p>
<p>I don't think the ACT score will reach them on time - their deadline for new info is February 12th. You'll probably have to call and make an arrangement with someone for this to be possible.</p>
<p>Remember that applying OOS at UNC-CH is VERY difficult for anyone since I think it's 81% of their acceptances have to be given to instate students but only like 20% of their apps are from instate so instate is almost a guarantee (w/ right gpa, scores, etc) and OOS is a crapshoot. I took a campus tour and we were told that demonstrated interest is not a factor in admissions since they know so many kids apply from OOS and can't make the trip.</p>