Overall, your stats are very impressive. Although being OOS means that your chances of admission have significantly decreased, your academic strength and notable extracurricular activities more than make up for that. It also looks like you’ve had some experience in the business field while in high school, which is something a lot of business schools look for in their applicants. Keep in mind that Chapel Hill has a holistic admissions process. So while the best ACT score possible would help, it’s not the most important factor to them. Your obvious commitment to extracurricular activities combined with your class rigor is far more crucial.
As far as being accepted to Kenan-Flagler, understand that roughly half of the Chapel Hill students who applied were accepted. And given Chapel Hill’s rigorous undergraduate program, being accepted to Kenan-Flagler is a remarkable feat. However, if you are offered assured admission to Kenan-Flagler through the Excel Program, you won’t even have to worry about applying. And given your academic standing, there is a good chance you will get an offer from the Excel Program.
When I applied to Chapel Hill, my academics were strong, but not stellar. I had around a 3.7 unweighted GPA and about a 1910 on the SAT. But where I lacked in amazing scores, I made up for in more important aspects. I founded and presided over two clubs at my school, helped my dad run his business, trained animals at the local zoo, made Native American style carvings, and did a bunch of other extracurricular and community service activities I don’t have the energy to recall right now. But most importantly, I made sure my essays were powerful and reflected who I was as a person. And much to my delight, I was accepted to Chapel Hill.
So many applicants regard the application essays as a secondary factor for admission. But for Chapel Hill and many other prominent colleges, they are one of the most critical elements. Make sure that you draw upon personal examples and life experiences in your essays that are chalk full of detail and personality, giving the admissions board a much better sense of who you really are as an individual. If you have a strong opinion on something, give it. If you disagree with something stated in one of the essay prompts, make it clear. They want to see a sense of passion in your writing that makes it stand out from the rest of the thousands of essays they get each year.
But, as a Junior in high school, the most important thing for you to focus on right now is your grades and extracurricular activities. I remember when I was a Junior, many of my peers got overconfident and slacked off in school during the second semester, causing many of them to be denied to their top choice colleges. Don’t be like them. Instead, keep up the good work you’re doing right now. And when the essay prompts for Fall 2017 are released in the late summer for whatever colleges you’re applying to, go ahead and get a jump on them if you’re planning on applying Early Action.
Remember not to stress to much about all this application stuff. You have great academic and extracurricular standings. And although I’m no member of an admissions board, I’ve great confidence you’ll get the answer you want.
Good luck and I hope to see you on campus at Chapel Hill someday.