<p>shadowplayer</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the bar keeps rising every year for OOS admissions at UNC and if the financial crisis continues next year will probably be even tougher as more and more students recognize the value that a UNC education offers.</p>
<p>If you can, re-take the SATs or take the ACT. A score of 2110 is going to be in the low-middle range for an non-URM/OOS student. I’m not saying it’s impossible with that score but you would need everything else to be stellar so having higher scores takes a little pressure off the rest of the application. </p>
<p>There will be posters telling you how they got in with lower scores and it does happen but there are also many with very high scores who are wait listed or rejected. I am just trying to show you how to improve your odds. UNC does give considerable weight to the essays so work hard to make them as good as you can and also to make them stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>OOS Recruited athletes on full scholarships (so not all recruited athletes in all sports) and those receiving full academic or merit awards like the Morehead, Robertson, Carolina and other similar scholarships can now be counted as in state for both tuition purposes and OOS enrollment percentages. This has had a slight impact on the overall OOS percentage taking it to around 19-20% but it doesn’t alter the 18 percent rule for the rest of the class; it just means that all 630-650 spots can be filled with regular applicants that are not recruited athletes and it does open up more spots for non athletes than before they found the loophole.</p>