@carolinagirl922 I really admire your optimistic attitude! Keep up the hope, you’ll continue to do great things!
@52balletvieta thank you so much! good luck to you and I hope your future holds wonderful things!
@carolinagirl922 Thank you!!
accepted in-state!!! so excited and happy for the future.
Accepted in-state! Congrats to everyone, can’t wait to meet all my future classmates 
deferred OOS, gotta say I’m bummed and a little surprised after getting into UVA and BC
34 ACT
4.0 UW, 4.5 W
All 5’s on APs (4 so far, 8 after senior year)
~600 hr community service
great essays and letters of rec, at least I thought so/assumed
Decision: Accepted in-state
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Tumbleweed
ACT: 34
SAT II: Tumbleweed
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97
Weighted GPA: 4.833
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/450ish
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB 4 (ugh), Bio 5, APUSH 5, APES 5
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Psychology, AP World History, English, Civics, AP Physics, AP Stats, AP Chemistry
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Tumbleweed
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tumbleweed
Job/Work Experience: Tumbleweed
Volunteer/Community service: ~50 hours
Summer Activities: Nothing that would help me get into college
Essays: Weird
Teacher Recommendabletion: 1 from calc teacher (probably decentish) other from physics teacher (probably good, I was almost definitely her favorite student.)
Counselor Rec: Probably generic
Additional Rec: Tumbleweed
State: North Carolina
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Kind of first gen
Not gonna lie, I’ve been stressing out about UNC for a while. My UNC essay was different, but I don’t know of it was “hmmm that’s interesting” different, or if it was “what’s wrong with this guy” different. I don’t think my lack of extra curriculars helped either, but I made it, congrats to everybody else that made it.
Accepted OOS with a 2040 SAT and a really cool essay about wanting to be a female Pope as a kid B)
@collegebound1516 don’t sweat it. In many ways UNC-CH is harder than UVA due to fewer OOS slots. I went to UVA and absolutely loved it. If you get in to UNC in the RD, great, but you already have great options. Let the chips fall where they may, you already have wonderful options available to you.
thanks @DevilStick i’d love to go to UVA, I’m just not sure it’ll work financially. I was hoping for a UNC-CH scholarship, but obviously, being deferred, i’m not getting that, lol. Here’s hoping they make a mistake on my FAFSA and wind up giving me too much 
I’m going to miss freaking out with everyone in this thread! Congrats to everyone, go Heels!
Go Hoooo…ngggghhghghghgh… heeelsssssssss…
Oh, that hurt my Wahoo heart to say.
Decision: Accepted in-state
Objective:
SAT: 2030
ACT: 34
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 5.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15/635
AP (place score in parenthesis): Psychology (5) Environmental Science (4) Human Geography (5) Calculus AB (5) Calculus BC (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP Macroeconomics, AP Statistics, AP English Literature, AP Comparative Government, Honors PLTW Medical Interventions, Honors American History II
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council (Council Member 9th/10th, Vice President 11th/12th), National Honors Society, National Technical Honors Society, Mu Alpha Theta, HOSA
Job/Work Experience: Starbucks barista for around 8 months, currently work at a math tutoring center since August
Volunteer/Community service: Not my strong suit, but I did hours that were required of the clubs I was in. Not sure of an exact total.
Summer Activities: Work
Essays: Well-written I think
Teacher Recommendation: Great
Counselor Rec: Great
State: North Carolina
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Congratulations to fellow members of UNC '20!!!
To all of my deferred brothers and sisters. Here’s to doing it all again in two months on the RD thread.
@DevilStick if you went to UVA what’s your interest with UNC-CH? sorry if I’m a little behind on the conversation
Decision: Accepted in-state
Objective:
SAT: 1970
ACT: -
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.83
Weighted GPA: 4.6
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 90/700ish
AP (place score in parenthesis): Psychology (5) Human Geography (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP English Literature, Honors Theatre III, Honors Women’s Chamber Choir, Honors Mixed Chamber Choir, Honors PLTW Biomedical Science, Honors American History II, Honors Anatomy and Physiology, AFM
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2015 Best Actress Nominee (in my city), NCTC Play Festival State Champion
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honors Society, National Technical Honors Society, Rho Kappa, Inter-Club Council (President), Choir (Treasurer), International Thespian Society/Honor Society (Vice President), performed in 9 plays and musicals during my 4 years
Job/Work Experience: Worked at My Gym (like The Little Gym) for about a year, and I’m a camp counselor at a YMCA camp in the mountains over the summer
Volunteer/Community service: Not my strong suit, but I did hours that were required of the clubs I was in. Not sure of an exact total.
Summer Activities: Work, plays
Essays: Quirky and unique, but well written
Teacher Recommendation: i hope they were good lol
Counselor Rec: Good i think
State: North Carolina
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
tbh i think my saving grace was how involved i am at my school and how i have a passion that i have excelled in
congrats to all!!!
Accepted OOS, 2230 SAT, great essays and decent extracurriculars, previously got deferred from Brown, UMich, and UVa. This is my first college acceptance; I’m surprised that unc would offer me admission even though it has fewer OOS slots than michigan and uva. Congrats to those who got in! For those who didn’t, fight on, I totally understand your feelings.
@collegebound1516 No problem. I’m now a NC resident and my daughter was just accepted to UNC-CH. The whole college process for my daughter generated my current interest in UNC-CH. But honestly, I knew this was coming for at least a decade.
I also hold a degree from Duke and have lived near Chapel Hill in all but about three years since 1991. I have spent much time in both Chapel Hill and Charlottesville. I spent many nights in Chapel Hill as a graduate student at Duke.
There are some differences between the schools, but unless you plan to pursue engineering or architecture each of these schools will be great options. You are smart to consider finances. By all means consider an your in state (CA?) options if the financial impact is significantly better than UVA.
UNC-CH is a great school, but so are schools like UVA and U Mich and may other schools mentioned in this thread. There are a lot of great schools out there. I’d encourage anyone deferred or rejected to read this article:
Getting In
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in
I will add the following anecdote - initially I never wanted to go to UVA, I wanted to attend Yale or another T5 school. Fortunately my mother convinced me to apply to UVA, one of the “public ivies”. It ended up being the best school that admitted me so I begrudgingly enrolled with every intention of transferring to a top ten school (Stanford) after a semester.
Only problem was… I fell in love with the place immediately. I never looked back.
Point is - If you get into an ivy or UNC-CH or some other similar prestige schools, great. If not, don’t sweat it. Don’t let one school’s decision define your success. Give your other schools a chance.
Accepted in-state!!!
I have one question though. When I applied, I put down chemisty as my “plan” but I do not want to do chemistry anymore. How do I change it and should I change it before I accept?