What schools in NC can be my potential safety schools?

College Search & Selection
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<p>STATS: </p>

<ul>
<li>Live in NC</li>
<li>Ethnicity: asian - american</li>
<li>Weighted GPA: 4.6</li>
<li>Class Rank: Top 6%</li>
<li>Majoring in education</li>
</ul>

<p>SAT:
math: 690
critical reading: 610
writing: 650
essay: 10</p>

<p>ACT:
Composite 28
English 29
Science 21
Reading 27
Math 33
Combined Writing / English 30 (subscore: 11)
- will take subject sat's later</p>

<p>Leadership (trying to emphasize passion for education)
- Public Relation Chairman of Key Club (Freshman - present)
- Environmental Club freshman year - senior year, but became treasurer junior year
- Tutored in an Elementary Club 4 hours for a week my entire freshman year
- Teacher's Assistant of an AP Chinese Class for my entire sophomore year
- helped find a tutoring club & i am the copresident, tutors 7+ hours weekly (junior - present)
- intern for a professor of education at unc chapel hill (june 2010 - present)
- Teacher's Assidtant of a PreK Chinese Class sophomore - senior year (sophomore - present)
- teacher's assistant of my entire social studies department in high school (sept 2010 - present) </p>

<p>Activities
- French Club freshman - present (note: completed AP French)
- Debate club junior - present
- national honors society (junior - present, 20 students chosen out of 557)
- cary teen council (junior - present)
- piano lessons & music theory lessons 1998 - present
- volunteers at food bank weekly (junior - present)
- on my church's leadership team (sophomore - present)
- chinese school (1998 - 2008, stopped after completing AP Chinese)
- nc state red hat engineering program 2007
- nc state creative writing program 2007 </p>

<p>awards:
- golden presidential service award (250+ hours of volunteers ervice)
- most dilligent in chinese school
- most improved in chinese school
- teacher's choice award
- student's choice award
- silver award for a piano statewide competition
- honors roll (3 year, continuous)
- ap scholar award</p>

<p>ap's i took:
- ap chinese
- ap government & politics
- ap psychology
- ap us history
- ap english 3
- ap environmental science
- ap french
- ap english 4
- ap human & geography
- ap calculus ab
- ap calculus bc</p>

<p>ap's my school offers that i didn't take: ap bio, ap stats, ap chemistry, ap physics, ap spanish</p>

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<p>North Carolina State University-Raleigh</p>

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<p>I think UNC@CH.</p>

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<p>UNC-CH is a strong match but not a safety. The OP’s scores are a little low. Great rigor and grades, though.</p>

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<p>I think you are fine for Carolina; I have multiple friends that are here with SATs in the 1600 and 1700 range.</p>

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<p>In state for Carolina you are in. Class rank counts big for them. </p>

<p>Safety schools? If you live in NC you know already what they are. You are smart enough to figure that out.</p>

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<p>Test Scores
Middle 50% of
First-Year Students </p>

<p>SAT Critical Reading: 590 - 700<br>
SAT Math: 620 - 710<br>
SAT Writing: 580 - 680<br>
ACT Composite: 26 - 31 </p>

<p>If you have multiple friends at UNC-CH who have SATs in 1600-1700 range, then you may be hanging out with athletes, URMs or maybe some special admits.</p>

<p>students at the 25% level have an SAT of around 1790. Somebody with a 1600 SAT is probably some kind of special admit. </p>

<p>Anyway…UNC would be a match of this student, not a safety.</p>

<p>You should take the ACT again and study the SR section…that really brought your score down.</p>

<p>Safety would be NC State Raleigh</p>

<p>SAT Critical Reading: 520 - 620<br>
SAT Math: 560 - 660<br>
SAT Writing: 510 - 610<br>
ACT Composite: 23 - 28</p>

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<p>UNC-CH-Match
NCCU-Safety</p>

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<p>Yes, mom2collegekids, but those UNC-CH stats include scores for OOS applicants, who usually have to meet a higher SAT/ACT-score threshold. In-staters get a real break. I think Chapel Hill’s a safety for OP. </p>

<p>(Yep, I know this is an old thread…just chanced upon it now. :-)</p>

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<p>Yes, mom2collegekids, but those UNC-CH stats include scores for OOS applicants, who usually have to meet a higher SAT/ACT-score threshold. In-staters get a real break. I think Chapel Hill’s a safety for OP. </p>

<p>(Yep, I know this is an old thread…just chanced upon it now. :-)</p>

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<p>oops, sorry for repeating myself, LOL!</p>