My son was deferred early action to UNC, and was waitlisted during the regular admission period. He has VERY similar stats to original poster’s son. We also live in Wake Co. In his case, I can only guess that the strikes against him are the county we live in and possibly lack of leadership. (No class or club officer positions). Everything else seemed to be very strong. We are scratching our heads, but looking forward to his future successes at his 2nd choice school. Also, at his school it seems that mostly females were accepted. We only know of one male accepted/attending and he is the NHS president. I don’t know if this is because more UNC applicants are female or they accept more females vs. males? Or at least this seems to be the case at our son’s high school.