Chance ME :O UNC Chapel Hill!

collegemom3717
Fri, 29 May 2020 18:31:55 +0000

Again, your SAT is skirting the bottom 25% for Wake Forest. Of course, SAT isn’t everything!

But, WF has ~25% overall acceptance rate. Aside from the 1000 hours of volunteering (across 3 years- the equivalent of 3 summers working 40 hours week x 8 week or ~1 day week during the school year) your ECs don’t look like what I would expect from somebody looking to go to a school nicknamed “work forest”!

Grade 9: Volunteer, Dance, Fashion show participant
Grade 10: Volunteer, Dance (officer), Fashion show participant, School newspaper (editor)
Grade 11: Volunteer, GSA, Fashion show participant, member of 3 honor societies
Grade 12; School newspaper (editor)

Please understand: I am not dismissing your ECs! as I said above, you have some nice ones. But I do know that one of the things that super-selective colleges look at is depth in ECs, commitment over time, evidence of growth / leadership, etc. That might be here for these- I just can’t tell from here.

If I were on the adcomm I would wonder about how you get to be editor on the school paper as your first job, about why you dropped it the next year, and are then an editor again. If I remembered that you go to a tiny school I might interpret that to mean that it is not an especially demanding role. That could be a grossly unfair interpretation- but I think it helps you to see how it might look from the outside. Similarly Dance- start in Grade 9, officer in Grade 10- and then dropped in Grade 11. Lots of possible reasons (injury being a super common one). But cumulatively, from here, it looks as though your ECs would have left you with time on your hands. If so, what did you do with it? were there non-school things that you were doing? (sometimes students don’t realize that activities that are not through school count as ECs).

I don’t really know how different the two are

In terms of acceptance? in terms of student experience? So what is the reason for these two in particular?