<p>Just another point. The desire to try and handicap admissions is very tempting. Isn’t that why many of us are here? But I’ve learned through watching the process that is isn’t always so easy to do. The son who’s going to UVa also applied early action to UNC/Chapel Hill as a second choice. After receiving his acceptance to UVa, he wrote UNC to pull his app., but apparently they were behind in their filing and never filed his letter. Long story short, when UNC’s acceptances came out in early Jan (almost a month early), he was notified that he’d been accepted. To be honest, we were stunned. Not just because he’d pulled his app, but because his SAT scores were not even close to what we’d “heard” one needed to have to get in. The word on the street is that OOS students need high 1400’s to get in. But for some reason, my son got in. And here I’d tried to convince him not to bother applying with those scores.<br>
So much for the word on the street.<br>
The moral of the story - you can’t always handicap college admissions. No matter how hard we all try to :)<br>
And good luck to you!</p>