UNC 2023 EA Results Thread

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I noticed there was no results thread so here goes nothing!
Congratulations to all!!!

Credit for template goes to @musicandscience

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Accept/Reject/Deferred:
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
LOR Rank (1-10):
Interview:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major and College:
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:

General Comments :

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[aB][asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]**
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1540 - 800M, 740CR, 22
ACT (breakdown): 36 - 36/36/36/36, 10
SAT II: 800 (Math II), 800 (Chemistry)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.4651
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school does not rank (1/617 unofficial)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (5), Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), European History (5), English Lang (5), Chinese (5), US History (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C Mechanics, AP Physics C E/M, AP English Lit, AP CSA, AP Macroeconomics, AP Statistics, PE/Health
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none? 10 medals from Scioly, some other awards for being a women in science/engineering

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (VP), Scioly (Co-President), Math Club (Officer), Tutor, SNHS (Secretary, team (lead singer), Mock Trial (JV captain)
Job/Work Experience: tutoring
Volunteer/Community service: counselor over the summer for Christian community service organization (6 years), volunteered with orphans over the summer
Summer Activities:community service
Essays (rating 1-10, details): What about your background, or what perspective, belief, or experience, will help you contribute to the education of your classmates at UNC? (7?) I wrote about tutoring and my love for teaching.
What do you hope will change about the place where you live? (9) I wrote about how my community tries to put up the image of perfection which ends up being detrimental to people that feel like they are alone in their struggles.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: Chemistry teacher, had her for two years (10), she loved me
Teacher Rec #2: English Lang teacher (9), I worked really hard in her class
Counselor Rec: 8 - he was closer to me than most students
Additional Rec:
Interview: n/a

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Mathematics
State (if domestic applicant): PA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: large suburban public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: high
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

Strengths: my test scores/gpa, essays (first application I did, so I worked really hard on them)
Weaknesses: out of state, no hooks
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: scores
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Penn State (accepted), UMD (accepted Honors), Princeton (deferred)

General Comments: Have hope if you’re out of state! I was really scared I’d get rejected.

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Accepted In state Pender County

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1560 (760 RW/800 M)
ACT: 34, 35 superscore
SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 BioE, 750 World History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.58
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/364
AP (place score in parenthesis): WH 4, Lang 4, EnvSci 5
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc AB/BC, AP Chem, AP Gov, Dual enrollment: Macroeconomics & Spanish
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): FCCLA Nationals Gold, National Merit Semifinalist, some scholarships etc.

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): SAT/ACT club prep President, Ecology Club committee leader, FCCLA Chapter Officer, blogger and author for newspaper, Mock coop Head Board of Directors, etc.

Job/Work Experience: Worked at school coffee shop. Personal tutor.
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at library, online, and river cleanups (earned national certification)
Summer Activities: 2 summer leadership camps at Ivy universities and youth tours on top of competitions
Essays (8-9): my personal statement was about my struggles, wrote pretty good supplementals about my major and community

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major and College: Environmental Science
State (if domestic applicant): NC
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: less than 2,000 public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Teacher Recommendation (9-10): 2 good recs from my AP teachers who knew me well
Counselor Rec (8-9): good relationship
Additional Rec (10): 2, one from another teacher who writes good letters and one from a mentor who works at UCLA

Strengths: High SAT scores and gpa. Very involved in and out of school. Poured my heart into my essays. Also had very good recommendations. I completely filled the Common App additional info section with other experiences.

Weaknesses: Didn’t take as many APs due to transferring from California my sophomore year, so I had to retake courses for credit.

So far deferred from Duke and uChicago. Still waiting for others.

Reasoning: Probably because I have high stats compared to my area and have done a lot of extracurriculars to make myself stand out. Being one of the top kids at my school definitely helped.

Good luck to all during this hectic process!

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Accept/Reject/Deferred: ACCEPTED 30

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): None
ACT (breakdown):
Composite: 30
Math: 28
English: 31
Reading: 32
Science: 31
Writing: 10
SAT II:None
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 32/280
AP (place score in parenthesis): None
IB (place score in parenthesis): None
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
First Youth Winner of the NBC USA Characters Unite Award
Awarded a day in my hometown
Honor Roll
Deans List

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Founder of a charity helping kids with cancer (Operates on a national scale) (7 years)
Band, First Chair Flute and Piccolo, lettered in both pep and concert band (8 years)
Cheer Head Captain, Varsity Sideline and Competive (2 years)
Cross-Age Tutoring (1 year)
Volunteer at Local Hospital, volunteered 4 hours a week (3 years)
Co-host of local charity telethon for Christmas (3 years)
Math League (1 year)

Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: Listed Above
Essays (rating 1-10, details): My common app essay was at least an 8, I wrote it on my charity and how it changed me. My other essays for UNC specifically were honestly realllly bad. I wrote them in 30 minutes. I wrote my first one on how I want to help teaching young girls CS while in college using my charity experience to start this. It was bad, 5/10. My other one was on my love for creative writing, and I connected it back to computer science, which was probably a 7/10?
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): Never read them, but I’m my counselor’s favorite (she even offered to pay for all my apps if I couldn’t get a fee waiver), so I bet that was good. In English, I was in a class with people that didn’t try too hard, so I stuck out and I bet hers was good too. My AP Bio teacher had a son that applied to T20 schools in the past, so I bet she knew how to write a good LOR.
LOR Rank (1-10): Above
Interview: None

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major and College: Computer Science
State (if domestic applicant): Minnesota
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Medium Public in a rural town
Ethnicity: White
Gender:Female
Income Bracket: ~20,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Gen

Reflection

Strengths: My common app essay, ECs and Awards
Weaknesses: UNC specific essays and testing
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I was accepted because of my charity. I never originally started it for the purpose of college, I love helping others, and I think it shone in my essay!
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Accepted: UMN Twin Cities, UMN Morris, Illinois Institute of Technology, New College of Florida Honors College, Florida Southern, Champlain College, NDSU (Honors College)
Deferred: Stanford

General Comments :
I’ve seen so many people on the UNC sub (and on CC in general) focus on stats, and people have made it seem like you need brilliant stats to get in out of state. To RD applicants and future applicants, don’t worry about your stats! Be genuine in your essays, ECs, and everything you do, and it will show! I cannot emphasize enough that stats aren’t everything. The process is truly holistic.

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Sorry, meant to type “ACCEPTED OOS”

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doxxing myself to friends but w/e

Decision: Accepted OOS California

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1520 (730 EBRW, 790 Math)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II (place score in parentheses): 800 M2, 730 USH
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.87 as of mid-year report, applied with a 3.85
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parentheses): World History (4), US History (4), Lang (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Chinese, AP Gov, AP Macroecon, AP Physics C:M, Honors Philosophy and World Religions
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): literally none other than school award & merit scholarship. Elks State Finalist rn but they never knew

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): leadership program that sent me to China all-expenses-paid twice, Chinese Club (president), Created a tutoring club that went over to the elementary school across the street (co-founder, board member), CSF (VP), Student Gov’t (1/3 in charge of sr class), Video game (top .05% of 40 mil, played professionally for a little bit), Soccer (captain several years, varsity manager sophomore year, won state cup, stopped playing after sophomore year)
Job/Work Experience: Created a pseudo-business in the video game (~$600), Private tutor (~$300 thus far), Work-study from my high school ($0)
Volunteer/Community Service: Check above
Summer Activities: China x2, self-taught myself calculus 1 in a month to skip AB and go straight to BC last summer
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 7 – my common was okay, it was about an issue in China; supplementals were wack – one was about apples and cheese, another about not fitting in with my army family. the story about me becoming homeless was in my addtn’l info section.
Teacher Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): probably a 7 – wild card tbh
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): 6 – he really likes me but he’s only known me for a little bit.
Additional Rec (rating 1-10, details): N/A
Interview: N/A

Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Asian Studies
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Catholic private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~$80-100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): was homeless for a short bit

Reflection
Strengths: Definitely being low-income/homeless while going to an upper-class religious school. Uncommon major, possibly. Mid-year was nutty but idk if they already made a decision before it was sent.
Weaknesses: Grades and course rigor – only have taken 3 APs thus far, and took regular (non-honors) geometry and chemistry. I really was a different person freshman and sophomore year and switched completely upon going into junior. Also, OOS – my school has a 6% acceptance rate to UNC.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: strengths outweighed weaknesses. also, my counselor is a UNC alumn so he prob did some voodoo magic or telekinesis for them to hit the accept button
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Stanford REA- Rej, UMich EA- Def, 3 Ivy’s, Duke, Rice, UCLA, UCB, etc etc etc

General Comments: Compared to other OOS ppl who got rejected on this forum, I have no idea how I got in. Pretty surprised. For those who didn’t, please don’t worry. I got deferred from UMich and got in here, and getting into UNC OOS is considerably harder than the latter. My point is that the admissions cycle is quite random; keep your heads up.

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Accept/Reject/Deferred: ACCEPTED
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1380, 690M/690R
ACT (breakdown): 30 C, 26M, 29 S, 34E, 33R 8W
SAT II: 630 Literature, 560 Spanish (I did so horribly that I didn’t submit either of them)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/300
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), Psych (5), US History (4), Language (4), Seminar (3), Calc AB (3), Research, Spanish Language, Literature, Biology
IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered at school
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
AP Scholar with Distinction,
Academics, Attendance, and Attitude in AP World History,
A Honor Roll,
Excellence in Beginner’s Chorus,
Academics, Attendance, and Attitude in Honors Math III,
Outstanding Achievement in Spanish II

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Future Teachers of America
Junior Usher
All Girl’s Acapella Group (Secretary)
National Spanish Honors Society
Health Occupation Students of America
National Beta Club
Child Care Provider/Family Responsibilities

Job/Work Experience: Babysitting, Family Responsibilities
Volunteer/Community service: Internship at local Newcomers school, Volunteered at summer camp for refugees, spent time working in a hospital, I occasionally shelve books at the library, and various other activities
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Wrote common app essay on how I struggled to fit in an all-white community as an African person, but I learned to love my heritage (6), Described how my best friend taught me resilience when she became the breadwinner of her family during her senior year of high school (10), Pledged to encourage diversity at UNC by joining/forming an organization dedicated to giving African students a safe space to share their culture (10)
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): My health science teacher (8-I had the highest grades in the class), My AP Language teacher (6-she wrote a rec for my Questbridge app)
LOR Rank (1-10): 7-those classes were really big and I felt like my teachers probably didn’t have much to say abt me besides I did good work
Interview: n/a

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major and College: Undecided, but I’m thinking Biostatistics
State (if domestic applicant): NC
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Medium-sized, high percent of low-income students, AP Capstone Program
Ethnicity: Ghanaian-American
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <30,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I immigrated from Ghana when I was 2 years old

Reflection

Strengths: My heritage, My ACT scores
Weaknesses: my math act score, lack of extracurricular activities freshman year, common app essay (it was a bit preachy imo)
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: A combo of hard work and good luck
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted at UNC Greensboro, UNC Charlotte

General Comments :
GTDBATH!!

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Accept/Reject/Deferred: Accepted - In State

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 1340 superscored, 640M/710R
ACT (breakdown): Composite - 28, 28M, 26S, 30E, 27R
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/86
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4), Biology (4), taking Calculus AB, Statistics, and Chemistry this year.
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Colorguard/Winter guard for 4 years (captain for 3 years), Girl Scout, SGA (Junior and Senior Class Secretary), Dancer, Beta Club, Art Club, Science Club
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at Food Pantry since middle school, Habitat for Humanity, Cleanup after Hurricane Florence
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 7 or 8/10, I wrote about how colorguard improved my confidence and how outgoing I was.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 9/10, don’t know any details but they came from my AP Calc and AP Bio teachers.
Interview: N/A

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major and College: Chemistry
State (if domestic applicant): North Carolina
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Very small, rural, many low-income families
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A

Reflection

Strengths: Extra curricular activities, essays, volunteer work
Weaknesses: test scores
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: My essays and ECs while being able to balance good grades
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted at Appalachian State, Western Carolina (Honors College), and UNCW. Still waiting to hear from NC State

General Comments :

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Accept/Reject/Deferred: Accepted OOS
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): 34C 34W 33M 33R 36S
SAT II: 800 Chem, 770 Bio M
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): N/A
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Bio 5, AP Psych 5
IB (place score in parenthesis): 41/42, 45 predicted grade
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Student Government (Leadership position in 11th and 12th),
Hosted an MUN conference, raising $50,000
Varsity Basketball (4 years)
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteered at a clinic starting in 9th grade
Volunteered at an orphanage
Organized numerous blood drives
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App - 7/10 not the best, but also not bad
UNC Supplements - 7/10 again, not the best thing I’ve ever written
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

1 8/10 - Principal wrote it as my counselor, only does this for a few students, I have a good relationship with him

2 8/10 - IB Chemistry teacher wrote it, saw me struggle at first and pick it up and did really well in her class

3 9/10 - IB English teacher, knew me all 4 years of high school, told me it was one of the best ones she has ever written

LOR Rank (1-10):
Interview:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major and College: Biology/Neuroscience
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): India
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 200,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

Strengths: Academic Rigor, grades, test scores, recommendations
Weaknesses: No standout ECs
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: No idea
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred: Duke, UMich; Accepted: University of Virginia, Rutgers, UT Austin, UMass Amherst; Rejected: None yet

General Comments : So grateful to have been accepted OOS, not sure what made my application stand out

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Accept/Reject/Deferred: ACCEPTED OOS
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1490 780M 710R
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): my school has a really weird GPA so it’s 4.04 / 4.25
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): n/a
IB (place score in parenthesis): predicted 42/45
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): highest academic achievement gr. 9+11, academic high honors, won an award for a music theory exam, entrepreneurship award

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Co-founder of a local branch of an anti-plastic NGO
Piano 10 years
Year Representative senior year
HS Volleyball 4 years
Job/Work Experience:
Market research for a local business
Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteer at a refugee center 3 years
Secretary of Global Issues Network
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App: 9/10 - talked about the power of storytelling and related it to my own experiences, I really liked it and felt it really showed my personality
UNC Supplement: 7/10 - I really liked one of them but the other one wasn’t so great
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Evaluation 1: 7/10 - only got to glance at it but it was pretty short and didn’t seem super personal
Teacher Evaluation 2: 8/10 - teacher knew me really well and talked about a good range of characteristics
Counsellor Rec: 9/10 - she put a lot of effort into this and was really sincere
Additional Rec: 9/10 - this was written really well and portrayed me in a great way
Interview: N/A

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: no
Intended Major and College: Business Administration
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): American citizen but I live in a country in Europe (it’s quite small so I’d rather not specify)
School Type: tiny international school (graduating class is 40 people!)
Ethnicity: White + Middle Eastern
Gender: Female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): possibly a slight hook from living internationally and being half Lebanese

Reflection

Strengths: SAT ish, IB, common app essay, diverse ECs
Weaknesses: UNC supplement, lack of leadership in ECs
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: idk maybe my application stuck out in terms of cultural diversity and living in a tiny country
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: deferred from Harvard, accepted to some schools in the UK and the Netherlands, waiting for the rest

General Comments : so happy to have gotten in, especially knowing how competitive it is for OOS!! Congrats to everyone accepted!

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Decision: Accepted OOS

Background on me: I’m a US citizen who grew up in India, so I’m international for all purposes except financial aid. I was in an actual school until 10th grade, and homeschooled in 11th and 12th grade. So for those two years I did Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) A-Levels, which are way more rigorous than the default international system. I did 3 A-Levels and one AS-Level, which is considered US Junior + Senior year equivalent.

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1540, didn’t submit
ACT (breakdown): 35 c. 35 maths, 36 english, 34 science, 34 maths. 9 writing (RIP)
SAT II: didn’t submit.
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/1 coz homeschooled
A-Levels (place score in parenthesis): English Language (AS-Level A grade), Maths and Stats (A), Economics (A),
Psychology (A) - Basically all highest possible grades except Maths where A* is the highest. (I’m only going into so much detail because I assume most people reading this won’t know much about A-Levels)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nil

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 6 years of hardcore mountaineering with an internationally recognized institution, including a Himalayan course.
6 years participation + 2 years volunteering (leadership) at my previous school’s physical/cultural/community outreach after-school program.
A number of small data-mining projects related to economics and psychology.
Job/Work Experience: nil
Volunteer/Community service: My previous school was extremely focused on ‘giving back to the community’ so it was basically six years of intensive community service alongside normal school.
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App (10): Wrote about my previous school which was a selective magnet school and how their unique philosophy shaped my education and life, and included some interesting and funny anecdotes.

Supplemental Essay 1 (10): Peer who made a difference in your life - wrote about my extremely shy best friend and how I recognized signs of her shyness in myself, overcame it, and how that made me a different, more outgoing person, while in a way still making sure she was never left behind (sound weird but it’s very well-written IMO.) Supplemental Essay 2 (9): Thing you wish you could change about the place where you live - won’t reveal exactly what because I want to write more and expand upon this idea but it was a good way of thinking and also had place to talk more about some of my own experiences. Showed I was a thoughtful person who expands upon her experiences and draws parallels with other aspects of her life.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): Counselor Rec (10): My father was my counselor as a homeschooler, but I also included a letter from the vice-principal of my previous school. She loves and respects me a lot and had many enlightening anecdotes about me to add. She also said I was the most intelligent person in a class of people already selected for their intelligence (tbh I find that irrelevant because most of my peers are really smart, hardworking people… more so than me in many aspects.). I assume all this was reflected in the letter.
English Teacher (9): He’s a strange man who didn’t really understand the concept of rec letters to US colleges but he has a great deal of respect for me and said I was his best student in 20 years of teaching. Hopefully he remembered to include that in the letter lol.
Maths Teacher (9): Wasn’t very close to her but I always had great grades and helped students that struggled. She also caught on to what I needed really quickly (most of these teachers had never written a rec letter in their lives) and hopefully delivered.
LOR Rank (1-10): Idk what this means
Interview: Didn’t have.

Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah
Intended Major and College: Economics/ Psychology/ Journalism/ Public Policy
State (if domestic applicant): na
Country (if international applicant): na
School Type: Homeschool
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian) - didn’t self-select
Gender: F
Income Bracket: Lowest lol, we earn in rupees and my parents are semi-retired.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nil rip

Reflection
Strengths: I broke away from the norm and did a really hard curriculum as a self schooler… colleges do realize that.
Grades and test-scores were good too. But I also worked super hard on my essays and they all revealed another facet of me while still representing a cohesive picture of who I am.
Weaknesses: ECs for sure, but I must’ve been evaluated with respect to my Indian background, and Indian applicants in general have weaker ECs .
Why you think you were accepted: Diversity since I was homeschooled but also had objectively evaluated grades, and also US citizen schooled abroad. Most important had to have been essays and test-scores though.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted OOS UMich and UOregon, Rejected UVA, Deferred Yale
SCEA.

General Comments : First of all, I’m sorry this is so long. If you read this far, you the real MVP lol. But anyways, I was deferred by Yale SCEA and felt pretty bummed, but them UMich and UNC accepted me OOS! I was super surprised and honestly, I’d be as happy to go to either of these as I would to go to Yale. What I mean is don’t give up hope even if your dream/top school defers/rejects you. There are other great schools who’re gonna want you, and you’re gonna want them. It’s an exhausting process but at the end are 4 (hopefully amazing) years, and it’s all gonna be worth it in the end. Stay positive.

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Accept/Reject/Deferred: ACCEPTED

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 740 ( Reading), 780 (Math) = 1520 Composite
ACT (breakdown): Didn’t send
SAT II: Didn’t send
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language ( 4), Psychology (3), Environmental Science (5), Statistics (4), Calculus AB ( in progress), Calculus BC (in progress)
Dual Enrollment: English 111, English 112, Chem 151, Chem 152, His 132, Soc 210, Com 231
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Mayers award

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Environmental Club, Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross Club, International Club, Student Government, Photography, Chorus, FFA, Duke Environmental Science Summer Program.

Job/Work Experience: Cashier at a grocery store, front end at a restaurant, Starbucks (current)

Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours at various locations

Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8. I spent almost a month working on it. It was very personal and I think it is one of my best writing.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 9, One from Statistics teacher, two from science teachers, and one from a Duke summer program director. Overall, I think it was great. Counselor recommendation was probably average.
LOR Rank (1-10): ?
Interview: N/A

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major and College: Environmental Health Science
State (if domestic applicant): Yes, Durham County
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Large, public school
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation college

Reflection

Strengths: Essay, SAT, recommendations
Weaknesses: GPA, grades
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Essay shows how I care more about grades.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: NCSU (Accepted), UNCC (Accepted), UNCW (Accepted), App State (Accepted), UNCA (Accepted), Princeton (Deferred), Duke & Cornell (Still waiting)

General Comments: BEYOND EXCITED FOR UNC!! Congrats to all who got accepted! If you weren’t, just remember you put in hard work these past 4 years and you will be successful no matter where you go :slight_smile: . For future applicants, remember grades aren’t everything. It is 100% to have flaws such as getting B’s.

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ACCEPTED!!
Planned Major/College: Finance

State Residency: OOS (va)
SAT/ACT: 1450 SAT
GPA: 4.46 W 3.8 UW
Rigor: 6 AP Classes (senior and junior year) and received As
Rank: N/A
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Extras/Volunteer work/Talents/Jobs:
Over 150 hours of volunteer work at the local food bank, legal aid justice center, and UVA hospital. 2 internships at the University of Virginia. 3 part time jobs. Spanish, Math, and National Honor Society: Activist within my community, and a tutor for minority students with below 2.5 GPAs and ESOL students.

Congrats to all who got accepted!!!