Thank you!
Thanks! Doing the same re: sorority sophmore year. But now I know to budget for second kid!
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I have a sophomore at UNC and their off campus rent is $750/month. 4BR apt (private rooms), 2 bath. Easily walkable to campus. Nothing fancy but includes parking and is adjacent to one of the most expensive complexes. There are options at many price points but it does feel a bit like the Hunger Games trying to sort out off campus living arrangements for the 1st time but it can be done. Nobody ends up homeless
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Great to know!! Thank you!
My OOS D25 Applied early action. UNC is her dream school but also realizes how difficult it is to get into from out of state.
GPA (unweighted): 4.24
GPA (weighted): 4.8
SAT: 1520
National Honors Society, Cum Laude Society, numerous clubs and organizations including President of her schools Ambassadors.
Hoping for some good news in a couple of weeks!
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Great stats, but an unweighted GPA cannot be more than 4 in a 4.0 scale
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My studentās school gives A+ which = 4.33. Many students therefore do have above a 4.0 on an unweighted basis.
So then that is technically a 4.33 GPA scale, not a 4.0 scale, strange. Well in that case yes, it is possible. I hope UNC recalculates GPAs somehow, similar to UGA, otherwise not sure how they can do an apples to apples comparison
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Daughterās school also gives A+. I agree though, would assume they would do their own calculation.
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Best of luck to your daughter. Mine has similar stats, with a sport being the main EC. Good admission options in other schools in the SE so far, curious what UNC will decide.
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My daughterās school also has an A+ which equals a 4.3. For this forum, I calculated her UW GPA using a 4.0 scale and not giving the A+ bump. It helps to compare that way, especially since itās impossible to tell what a good weighted GPA is. For ex, an A+ in an AP class is a 5.3 in D25ās school, but in SC, a 100 is a 6.0 and in most schools itās a 5.0.
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It is so crazy how different the weighting is a makes it impossible to compare. No A+ bump at my sonās school and AP gets you 0.02 bump per semester - so a 4.04 for the year. It would be impossible to have a weighted GPA that I see posted in some of these forums!
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We are in Texas applying oos and the variation even amongst even our TX public schools for GPA varies wildly - not just by scale (4,5,6,100), and additions/no additions for rigor, but what courses are/are not included (core only, core+lote, all courses). Probably why our flagship UT really goes by rank plus rigor plus mandatory SAT now on the quantitative side of the equation. GPA is almost irrelevant and where rank is not shown on the transcript they have ways to supposedly estimate it based on school profile and history. Then there is the qualitative/holistic side of the equation and that is just a big black box where āfit to majorā is totally subjective.
Gonna be an interesting couple of weeks now - 3 EA decisions by the end of the month. Fingers crossed.
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Yeah. Our small private school in NC has done away with rank and gpa (mainly to lesson the competition of the students directly) which makes the colleges have to go through the grades and courses in detail no matter what, to see the rigor and such. I would think that helps keep kids in the running, if any college weeds out based just on numbers.
We also have 3 big ones this month. Nail biting timeā¦
Same to you!
I am pretty sure that UNC schools reweight oos studentsā GPAs to compare to the NC system of grades which is all the same for public schools. Same with private. NC is a 10-pt scale (90-100 A, 80-89.9 B, etc.), honors are 0.5 weight and AP area 1.0 weight.
That said, the GPA average and test average for oos students is higher than in state as it is much more difficult to get in out of state.
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I believe our school follows the Wake County rule where there is no valedictorian. There is a Board of Valedictorians for anyone over a 4.4 and transcript shows #1 in their class.
Wow that is different. Texas has it written into state law vals get first year free at any Tx public university and they typically offer reciprocity to other statesā vals. So much variation you have to wonder how they process transcripts from all over the US and I supposed the world. i bet they will start to incorporate AI in the transcript evaluations especially with rising application numbers.
Interesting! I think Chapel Hill has that rule too. That said, we know a CH valedictorian who didnāt get into UNC-CH, soā¦
Iām stunned at that NC valedictorian didnāt get into Chapel Hill. No good ECs or a poor SAT had to be the reasonā¦