Hey all – just a quick clarification to some info earlier in thread. My daughter is applying IS this year and according to a letter we got from the admissions office a few weeks ago in state acceptance is 45% for non-alum IS kids and 55% IS kids with an alum parent. The percentage, of course, varies by geography and subgroups as well, but I don’t know those breakouts. Good luck to everyone!!! No matter what happens, you will land on your feet and do good in the world.
@pugbish5 I pretty sure they are doing a clean up of the website today, so it will be down.
Hi, can you guys chance my sister? UNC is her top choice. Thanks!!!
Female Asian Indian
In-state
GPA (weighted): 5.1
GPA (unweighted): 4.0
Rank: 1 (or 2)/350 *will be verified soon
ACT: 26/36
SAT: 1260/1600
APs:
9th: AP Human Geo
10th: APUSH and AP Lang
11th: APES, AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Chem
12th: AP Euro, AP World, AP Bio, AP Calc
Extracurriculars:
AGORA STEM program (3 years)
Indian traditional dance (9 years)
Summer Ventures ASU 2016 (got a lot of lab experience)
Science Olympiad (3 medals in 4 years)
Beta Club (4 years)
Varsity Tennis Team (3 years)
Volunteering at the hospital (40+ hours)
High school class mentor (2 years)
Youth Group (5 years) - gained 70+ volunteer hours from this for the community
Volunteer at Gandhighar Deaf School in India
Other Stuff:
Natural Science Academy (program in my school where we are required to take 7+ science classes during our time in high school), AP Scholar, Academy of Scholars (top 25 program in my county where we attend monthly seminars and dinners), Junior Graduation Marshal, Spanish Honor Society
Thank you!!
@californiagirl97 I’ll tell someone here that had an identical ACT score: 26 is awfully non-competitive, but the supplemental aspects can pull you up, which she seems to have many. It just doesn’t help though that she’s Asian Indian making her competition considerably harder, even for only in-state standards. I’m quite astonished here that someone with such a high GPA and valedictorian ranking has those test scores as generally, high GPA’s correlate with high test scores. The rigor of the school she attends might come a bit into question for an admisions officer.
Hi can anyone chance me?
SAT I: Not sending
ACT: 33 (35E/35R/27M/36S)
SAT II: 770 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): My school does it on a 100 scale–> 93.94
Weighted GPA: 97.82
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank, but I think I’m in the top 10-15%
of AP classes or Full or Partial IB: 8 by the time I graduate (World History (4), Chemistry (3), US History (5), English Lang (4), Psychology (TBD), Bio (TBD), English Lit (TBD) & Government (TBD)), 2 dual enrollment (Science Research & Psychology)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Idk if they’re anything major, but
American Legion School Certificate Award (9th), Smith College Book Award (11th), 2nd place at regional science competition (11th), 3rd place at regional National History Day competition (11th), Special award at another regional science competition (11th), AP Scholar, member of American Association for Cancer Research, Research is being prepped for publication
SUBJECTIVE:
(Short Phrases/ one word answers appreciated)
Extracurricular activities (place leadership in parenthesis):
Member of Science Research Program at my school (leadership n/a)- Conducted independent research for 3 summers starting after my freshman year; 30-40 hours each week during the summer & we learn foundational research & presentation skills in class (posterboard & ppt presentations etc.)
Asian Culture Club (Founding President 10-12)- ran fundraisers for important Asian causes, taught others about asian cultures
Student Representative for a local organization- 1 of 2 student reps. selected to represent students at organization’s board meetings; helped pass several grants to fund arts programs in my town
JV/Varsity volleyball- helped team reach section finals in 2016, league champs in 2017
Science Honor Society (Vice president)- organize members’ volunteer hours & science related events around town
Social Studies Honor Society (Vice president)- helped organize our annual history bowl event
Peer Tutoring Club (founding member)- tutored peers in various subjects (30-40 community service hours)
Gaelic League- joined b/c I was interested in Gaelic culture haha; learned a lot
Women’s Empowerment Club- Helped organize various fundraisers to promote women’s rights elsewhere in the world; also helped educate others in town about women’s history/feminist movement
National English Honor Society
Math Honor Society
National Honor Society
other minor clubs
Work Experience/Community service: Approx. 400-500 hours of community service conducting breast cancer research at a hospital in the city (3 summers of work starting from the summer after freshman year, 30-40 hours each week during the summer)
Essays: Not sure I can rate them accurately since I’ve read them so many times
Common app 9/10 (I wrote about my love of cooking and the lessons that it has taught me; very personal & unique to me)
A peer who has made a difference in my life: 8-9/10 (I tried to seem as candid and genuine as possible and I think it was written pretty well, but these are always so subjective.)
Contribute to UNC: 9/10 (Talked about my early upbringing in a very diverse neighborhood and all the lessons it has taught me. May be generic/contrived idk.)
Teacher/ Counselor Recommendation:
Counselor: 8-9/10? (I’m honestly not sure about this one b/c she doesn’t know me extremely well. I think she likes me as a person, but Idk. She did say that my rec turned out really well…)
Math teacher from last year: 8-9/10 (Even though I struggled in her class, she really admired how hard I worked, but not sure how well she writes)
US history teacher from last year: 9/10 (I loved his class and did really well in it. I also think he really enjoyed having me as a student and plus, he’s an excellent writer.)
Research mentor: 10/10 (She and I have worked very closely for 2 summers now and really mesh well. She provided an out of the classroom perspective that neither of my other teachers could.)
OTHER:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major : Public Health w/ a minor/possible double major in Chinese & Pre-med
Domestic or International (state or country in parenthesis): Domestic (New York)
Race and/or Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: mid-upper middle
Hooks (URM, first generation college, Recruited Athlete, Famous, High Donar): none
Other Schools you are applying to:
Baylor (EA, accepted)
Binghamton (EA, accepted)
Villanova (EA, accepted)
Emory (RD)
WashU (RD)
URochester (RD)
Boston University (RD)
Northwestern (RD)
Cornell (RD)
Yale (RD, legacy)
Brown (RD)
Does anyone know when EA decisions are coming out?
@emmab15 what does your Naviance say? You go to a large high school with a lot of UNC applicants so it would be a good indicator.
@Elizabeth511 no one knows for certain but decisions tend to come out the last Friday of the month every year so we’re all betting on this Friday the 26th. There should be an email going out some time this week to confirm that.
Do you guys think that applying EA helps my OOS chances? They’re slim anyways, but just wanted to inquire…
@Pastpower Yes, she’s just a bad test-taker and gets bad anxiety. She does have great LoR’s as a result of building great relationships with her teachers and her essays are good as well. I currently also go to UNC so maybe that should also help?
I was wondering the same thing @anxiouswreck
If anyone wants to chance me, I’d really appreciate it!
Here’s my info:
Ethnicity & Gender: Caucasian/Female from Minnesota (OOS rip)
Intended Major: Biological Sciences, pre-med track
-ACT Score: 34 (single-sitting)
-Weighted GPA: 4.27 on a 4.0 scale (My school doesn’t offer unweighted GPAs)
(Since there’s some confusion over what the numbers mean between scales, this GPA consists of
42 A’s and 3 A-'s)
-Class Rank: 3/500
AP/CIS Classes Taken or Signed up for: AP Chemistry (Sophomore), AP Calc AB (Junior) and BC (Senior), AP Biology (Junior), AP Physics w/ Calc (Senior), AP Psych (Senior), CIS Public Speaking (Junior), CIS Critical Writing (Senior).
Extracurriculars:
-Peer Leaders
-WEB Leaders
-LINK Leaders
-SADD
-JV/Varsity Tennis (5 years)- All-Conference Honorable Mention
-Volunteering in hospital birth place: 250+ hours
-Concert Piano (12 years)
-Apprentice chocolatier with a fine chocolate company (4 years)
-Certified EMR
-AP Bio and Chemistry TA
Honors:
-National Merit Scholar Commended Student
-AP Scholar
-Lettered in Academics every year
Recommendations:
I have letters of rec from my piano instructor and my employer, both of which I am extremely close to. Their letters were amazing. I also have letters from three teachers, two of whom I TA’d for. I organized our entire science department’s move to a new location, so the bio and chem letters were great.
Essays: I worked really hard on my essays, and had literally everyone in my life read them. I asked three English teachers and a professional tutor to edit, and they gave positive feedback. One of my UNC essays was about diving for tennis balls in matches (and still losing). I think they were one of the strongest parts of my application.
Thank you! I hope we all get good news on Friday. For everyone else OOS (and IS), I recommend chocolate as an anxiety antidote (:
Did anyone specifically say “UNC” in their supplements because I just realized that while I talked about how I’d impact my classmates, I never actually named UNC. I know it’s far too late to do anything about it now, but I’m still freaking how haha
@anxiouswreck @musicandscience Applying to UNC OOS EA is definitely the way to go compared to Regular Decision. They let in a lot more students EA compared to RD. RD acceptance rate for OOS students is just about impossible.
Does UNC tend to deffer a lot of applicants in the EA round like some schools do??
Shoot, you guys I just realized that I selected the wrong essay prompt for the essay I submitted. I wrote it for the other prompt! What should I do? Am I screwed?
My mom went to unc for her doctorate degree- am I considered as legacy? If not, my chances are really really really low :((
I’m reading all of these comments and I cannot believe how strong you all are as applicants and how badly we want to go to UNC. It’s really cool to think that I could go to college with people who are so passionate about this school. The admissions process is pretty much out of our hands at this point, but I do hope you all get accepted. We’ve worked hard to get here.
@whateverrrr Yes, if you have family ties to the university then you are. No worries.
Your best bet would be to call the admissions office tomorrow to explain what happened! Hopefully they understood what you meant, in sure it happens a lot more than we think. Best of luck to you! I’m so sorry that happened