In state. Wake County. Yea, Chapel Hill is a reach for me. I also applied to nc state which i feel good about though.
You’re in Wake and ranked top 5% with a 4.4? Interesting. Most in Wake for top 10% are 4.6+. NC State you’ll be fine.
Thanks!
NC Insight just updated test score data for 2024 applicants. The link is below if anyone is interested in checking it out. It works best on a computer and you have to use the filters to seek out the proper data. For Instance, you can search applied, admitted, enrolled; in-state, oos; individual institutions; etc. It’s very interesting to see how many applied students submitted test scores relative to how many were admitted with test scores. It gives you a more accurate acceptance rate for those students. Anywhoo, I’m a data nerd and find this type of information helpful. Edit: Something else I forgot to mention. At the very top, you can change tabs from Test Scores to Applied/Admitted/Enrolled. Once in this tab, you can use filters on the left side to get admitted data for specific NC high schools, public and private. It’s just another interesting data point.
https://myinsight.northcarolina.edu/t/Public/views/db_freshmen/TestScoresandHSGPA?%3Aembed=y&%3Aii
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Thanks, very interesting, I wish more schools would provide this level of detail.
No problem. And yes, I wish they were all more forthcoming with admissions data. There are Common Data Sets available but those don’t always tell the whole story, particularly in-state vs oos, and the updated data are often released after the newest applicants have already submitted applications for the current cycle. Good luck to everyone!!
FWIW, in case it’s relevant to you or anyone else here reading (and maybe it is since NC and VA tend to have a good bit of overlap?), Virginia Tech gives this kind of detail. Go here https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college and you can sort by college, major, in state v out of state, all kinds of things.
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While having this data (gpa, sat score) is nice, I wonder if this is calculated after holistic admissions and not directly used in the admission process.
Curious if anyone can help me make sense of this …
When I filter the Applied/Admitted/Enrolled tab to UNC-CH + Applied + OOS … it looks like ~50K applicants for Fall 2024.
When I filter the Test Scores/GPA tab to UNC-CH + Applied + OOS … it looks like they only had High School GPA for ~33K students.
How could ~17K students apply w/out a HS GPA?
I’m not actually that interested in GPA data - I’m more interested in the # of OOS applicants who submitted ACT (2,650) or SAT (6,200) scores so that I have a better idea of what to make of their avg SAT score for admitted students.
If you check the Additional Notes tab, it looks like perhaps they don’t convert GPAs that are not on a 4.0 scale. At least, that’s how I’m reading the note.
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Ah - I see that now. Thank you!
So it looks like for Fall 2024, they admitted 4,200 OOS students. And of those 4,200 - fewer than 1,200 submitted either SAT or ACT scores. Surprises me that >2/3 of admitted OOS students applied TO.
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We are in-state and my daughter applied EA. We know UNC is a reach for her, and seeing this data confirms it, but it still seems to be within the realm of possibility. Anyhow, good luck to your child if applying!
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That is actually very surprising. I would expect OOS students to be accepted on merit primarily
Best of luck to your daughter as well!
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What is “TO”?
Test optional
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4.0 Unweighted
34 ACT
Class rank 1/60 at a top magnet school
In NC
Guilford County
Want to double major in theater and chemistry
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Wow, so interesting! Mine is at UNC now, so it’s pretty fascinating to go back and look at how many applied/were accepted from her school last year. 115 applied (which feels like a lot - many of those kids submitted that app on a wing and a prayer) and 39 accepted. We know a few from top 5% who didn’t get in (all were test optional).
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A lot of the OOS are athletes and prob didn’t submit scores
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What was the rough SAT/ACT threshold?