UNC 2021 EA RESULTS (OFFICIAL)

iceshard99
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:02:12 +0000

In State or Out of State: IS

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): took it three times and failed all three times
ACT: 34 (35 English, 35 Math, 33 Reading, 31 Science)
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.833
Weighted GPA: 4.64
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): lol it’s really bad
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calc BC (5), APUSH (4), AP Stat(4), AP Lang(5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP French, Multivariable Calculus at UNC-CH, AP Lit, AP Computer Science
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Youngest published author in the American Statistical Association, published paper on race and swimming, JSM 2016 poster presenter in Chicago, JSM volunteer, featured on AMSTAT as the student face of the GiveASA Foundation (raised over $10,000), competitive swimmer (states level), Varsity swim captain, Varsity Tennis captain, viola, two acapella groups, Songs 4 Charity (own club), NHS, Animal shelter volunteer, summer RMSC volunteer, etc…
Job/Work Experience: Private swim instructor for Town of pittsford
Volunteer/Community service: mentioned above
Summer Activities: JSM JSM JSM
Essays: 10/10
Teacher Recommendation: Not sure, I moved the summer before junior year so I only had a year to connect with both teachers. But I assume they were decent since I got into UNC

Counselor Rec: no clue
Additional Rec: none
State: North Carolina
School Type: Large Public
Ethnicity: Amasian
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Strengths:
Weaknesses: GPA and Weighted GPA
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: My essays were really fun and light-hearted and my published paper hopefully separated me from the crowd, also IS
General Comments: I was a transfer student who was forced to move to an extremely competitive public school before junior year. I was extremely depressed and dejected because the new school was destroying my life, like seriously, no one likes it here. My grades suffered the whole year and I ended up with 3 B’s. My weighted GPA was terrible because my former school had 9 periods in a day and made us take 2-3 mandatory 4.0 weighted electives. So while my friends had weighted GPAs at or above 5.0, mine was right around the 4.5 range, even though I was on the same level as them. This affected my class rank and caused me to have anxiety (slept at 4 am every night) about the college process for a long time. So for future applicants reading this, if you are in a similar spot, I just want to say, please don’t stress!!! You’re hurting yourself and it’ll all be okay If something in your application is unusual, ask your counselor to put it in his/her rec and also write about it in additional info. Although I got extremely screwed over, I still got into college! Good luck future applicants!! You all deserve the best!!