SJ2727:
Chrane03:
@mom2boys1999 Again, I’m looking at the stats for my high school. Of the people with a GPA and SAT similar to mine, 8 of 8 have been accepted to UNC, I know what a match school is, and this isn’t a hope and prayer situation. I’m also way above the 75th percentile SAT score of 1470.
Publics are often significantly more lenient with instate that OOS stats. In fact, UNC does break down the stats between IS and OOS, and it also appears the stat you have is out of date. For the entering class this year, the 75th percentile for instate is 1500, and the 75th percentile for OOS is 1540. That puts you in the middle 50, not “way above” the 75th percentile. https://admissions.unc.edu/files/2020/10/Class-Profile-2020_FINAL.pdf Furthermore it’s possible, as with many other schools just below the top 10-20, that the admit middle 50 is a little higher than the entering middle 50.
Adding…a not-insignificant proportion of OOS students are recruited athletes. So, some of those recruits likely pull down the average OOS test scores, meaning those for unhooked students are actually higher than what we can see.