<p>How much above average would one need to be (if at all)? Anyone with any experience from OOS on this board? Thanks.</p>
<p>I don't know exact averages, but I know that all who applied from kids' high school were accepted. Nephew accepted. (We don't talk averages or test scores because he and my son were very close and we didn't want the boys to have to compete. I can make a good guess, though. I would say average is around 95 because he did not apply to the top schools Brown, Dartouth, Williams) that S did,(97 average) but did apply to just below, Wesleyan, Tufts, etc. where he was wait listed. SAT's around 1380 - 1400 I would guess.</p>
<p>Stats for friend in school: GPA 93 - 94 I would guess, SAT 1450. He was accepted at Northwestern.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>That sounds way too high for University of North Carolina Wilmington, even for OOS. Possibly misunderstood query and thought it was about Chapel Hill? Is there any information on the Web site about scores/GPA in overall accepted pool? One could then extrapolate that one would need to be at top end of that to get in OOS. Is there much of an OOS contingent anyway?</p>
<p>mythmom, Thanks. I doubt that my kid will have stats that are that high (in fact I am sure that they will not be anywhere near those stats). He just finished freshman year of hs. I think that he will have a solid B gpa. He is not a great test taker, and I figure the SATs will come in somewhere between 1200-1250 (old). Could be higher, but I am not expecting it.</p>
<p>Mattmom, thanks. I just crossed posted. I am beginning to think that W is getting an overflow of rejected students from Chapel Hill. It is very difficult to get into Chapel Hill OOS. I just met an OOS student who was rejected from Chapel Hill, but will attend Wilmington. Stats of that student were very high. It made me question whether my kid would have a shot, if he applies.</p>
<p>The following information is from the UNCW Web site:
"1. How does UNCW view SATs and ACTs? Fifty percent of the students admitted to UNCW had SAT scores between 1160 and 1230. Twenty-five percent had SATs below 1160, and twenty-five percent had SAT's above 1230. UNCW also accepts the ACT (with the writing portion)in lieu of the SAT. Consideration is given to all students who apply regardless of SAT scores since standardized testing is only one factor used in arriving at an admission decision. We use a student's highest math and critical reading score from all test dates and create the highest total score to advantage a student. In that way, the lowest score will have no effect. Because the writing part of the SAT is new, we are not using it in our decisions at this time. </p>
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<li> My high school does not rank or weight grades. Will that affect my chances for admission? It is the job of admission officers to know your school. Each member of the admission committee is responsible for a specific geographic region and knows what courses are available. We ask each high school to send its profile outlining the grading scale, etc. We understand that many schools do not rank their students and we do not require rank to make a decision. Also, we review many GPA scales from hundreds of high schools. Last year, the average GPA of students admitted to UNCW was 3.68. This average includes all GPAs from admitted students, weighted and unweighted."</li>
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<p>Here are some enrollment demographics from their website, which will list numbers of in-state and out-of-state students. </p>
<p>UNC-Wilmington has some strong departments, especially marine science. It is generally not a difficult admit for either in-state or out-of-state. A lot of students from in-state apply there directly, knowing they can't get into UNC-CH, but you're right that many (in-state) students go there after being rejected from Chapel Hill. I would doubt many out-of-state students go there after being rejected from Chapel Hill, though. </p>
<p>Students do seem to really like UNC-Wilmington.
<a href="http://www.uncw.edu/oir/documents/FactSheets/Enrollment-Demographics/enrollment_current_Spring2007.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.uncw.edu/oir/documents/FactSheets/Enrollment-Demographics/enrollment_current_Spring2007.htm</a></p>
<p>northeastmom, check out this site <a href="http://www.cfnc.org%5B/url%5D">www.cfnc.org</a>
Click on the button at the top that says College Fair and on the page that comes up click on college tours. There will be a listing of every college in NC. After choosing a college, click on admissons and you will find all kinds of stats.</p>
<p>northeastmom -- we know many, many students from our community who were accepted and/or attend UNC-W as OOS students (we are coastal neighbors). The academic profile for this group is fairly described as B+ students, mostly from public schools, who have participated in several ECs but not necessarily as a leader or "star." All in all, a group of very nice kids who are good solid students and otherwise prob would have gone to one of our state schools.</p>
<p>Most kids we know who apply to UNC-W also apply to Coastal Carolina as well. S has several friends who love it there, so you might want to take a look.</p>
<p>The College Board Web site provides statistics for the enrolled class (which come from the Common Data Set Initiative) for essentially all colleges of interest in the country. E.g., </p>
<p>Thank you all for being so helpful!</p>
<p>Jack, it was b/c I met an OOS applicant that was rejected from UNC-CH that will be going to W that I got nervous. Frankly, she had stats that could have gotten her into all kinds of great schools, but she chose Wilmington. </p>
<p>Packmom, thanks for the link. It should be helpful.</p>
<p>Esquette, is Coastal Carolina in SC?</p>
<p>Jack, Thank you for the link to enrollment information.</p>
<p>Tokenadult, Actually it is a great site, and I have used it for a long time. It does not tell me what one needs OOS as opposed to Instate, which is the problem.</p>
<p>Maybe Jack knows this one:</p>
<p>Do all the North Carolina state colleges require the 82%-18% instate/OOS ratio, or is that just for UNC? Just curious...</p>
<p>dudedad: All of the UNC system schools have the 18% requirement; however, it's much easier to get in from out-of-state at all the other campuses, other than Chapel Hill, simply because the other schools don't get the large number of applications from out-of-state that Chapel Hill does. Chapel Hill, on average, receives about 11,000 applications from out-of-state, compared to the ~9,000 from in-state. This is not the case with the other UNC campuses, where they would probably love to see more out-of-state applicants.</p>
<p>northeastmom: I've actually known of a few in-state students who got into Chapel Hill but chose UNC-Wilmington instead. (I think it was a combination of wanting to be at the beach and the marine science program there.)</p>
<p>Jack, I did not realize that it is a bit easier to get into public the schools from OOS (exception UNC-CH).</p>
<p>I just noticed that the CB lists UNC-W as 22% OOS. Does the 18% apply to each campus, or the grand total of all campuses cannot be more than 18% OOS? I wonder how UNC-W has 22% OOS.</p>
<p>northeastmom: That 18% is for each campus. I don't know why UNC-W would have 22% out-of-state. Is the CB the College Board? If that's not an official UNC-W number quoted on their site, it simply may be counted wrong. That's interesting, though. There was a recent legislative provision that now counts all UNC athletic and merit scholarship awardees as "in-state" students for tuition purposes, so this could skew the percentages somewhat.</p>
<p>With regard to the ease of getting in from out-of-state-- I was merely stating that it would be much easier at the other campuses than at Chapel Hill, simply because most of the other campuses don't get the inordinate number of out-of-state applicants that Chapel Hill does. Also, the other campuses are easier admits anyway-- for in-state as well.</p>
<p>By CB I do mean the College Board. It states the following: "College information in College Search is provided by the colleges themselves. Costs, dates, policies, and programs are subject to change, so please confirm important facts with college admission personnel."</p>
<p>I'm guessing that 22% OOS might include graduate students as well. ?</p>
<p>By the way, this UNC-W profile states 13.7% out-of-state, though this is dated 2003. <a href="http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/studentprofile.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/studentprofile.pdf</a></p>
<p>I think admissions can also depend somewhat on the type of student or where they are from. I personally know two girls (in-state, SATs 1100-1200 range) who were rejected at UNC-W but admitted to NC State. </p>
<p>In NC, one would think NC State would be the harder admit but in this case these two girls were from the largest sch. system in NC where a LOT of girls apply to UNC-W and all from this one system cannot be admitted for balance purposes. </p>
<p>On the other hand NC State has a larger percentage of males in their student body so female applicants might have an edge. These girls applied to majors in the smaller less popular colleges and got in. Both are very happy at NCSU (and the beaches near UNC-W are a very easy roadtrip away).</p>
<p>Oops! My bad! I gave you stats for Chapel Hill.</p>