Unc Early Action!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

parasail2005 · November 5, 2004, 1:55pm

I am out of state and go to a highly acclaimed private school. WHAT ARE MY CHANCES OF GETTING IN EA?

THANKS SOOOO MUCH!!

SATI: math-670 verbal-640
SATII:Writing-630 mathIIc-580 Biology (E)-600
ACT: composite 29
GPA: 3.3 (unweighted)

Education:
1992-2005 Fort Worth Country Day School, Fort Worth, TX (grades K-12)

Academic and Other Honors:
*Honor Roll 9, 10, 11
*Volunteer Award 9
*Whos Who Among American High School Students 11

Extra-Curricular Activities:
*Athletics:
-Cheerleading -Varsity 10, 11, 12; Junior Varsity 9, 10
(11 hrs/week-16 weeks)-NCA All-American Nominee 11, 12
-Squad received bids to 5 National competitions 11
*Dance 9, 10, 11, 12
-Competition dance team (7hrs/week-46 weeks)
-National Champions
*Choir 9, 10, 11, 12
-Texas Private School Music Educators Association-All-Region Choir 11
*Vocal Point (Show Choir) 11, 12
*School Musical (Spring) 9, 10, 11
-dance troupe 9, 10 (10 hrs/week-8 weeks)
-supporting role in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 11 (14 hrs/week-8 weeks)
*Tri-M Music Honors Society 9, 10, 11, 12 (1 hr/week-5 weeks)
*Senior T-shirt Committee-designer 12 (1 hr/week-3 weeks)
*Classical Music Club 9, 10 (1 hr/week-3 weeks)
*Prom Committee 12 (1 hr/week-6 weeks)

Volunteer Experience:
*Habitat for Humanity 9, 11 (15 hr/wk-1 week)
*Texas Girls Choir, Inc.- Office Assistant 9 (4 hrs/week-8 weeks)
*Southcliff Baptist Church- helped run vacation bible school 10 (12 hrs/wk- 1 week)

Work Experience:
*Ridglea Country Club, Fort Worth, TX Poolside Waitress summer 11 (25 hrs/week- 14 weeks)

AndrewD · November 5, 2004, 2:06pm

About the same as mine, I would guess.

My stats:

White, Idahoan male

GPA: 3.972 (On an unweighted, A = 4 scale. Basically this means I've had one B in all of high school, damn Algebra)

Class rank: 13 of 417

SAT: 1300 Math: 570/Verbal: 730(First try, I'm taking it again on Nov.6 and once more on Dec. 4)

Clubs/activities (times averaged):
National Honor Society (1.5 hours per week/ 30 weeks)
Young Progressives Club (President/Co-Founder) (3 hours per week/ 32 weeks)
Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief) (8 hours per week/36 weeks)
Earth Club (2 hours per week/20 weeks)
Japan Club (Vice-Prez) (5 hours per week/25 weeks)

AP Classes:
AP US History (5)
AP English Lit/Comp
AP Macroeconomics
AP American Government

Awards:
Idaho Top Scholar award (top 1% of Idaho High School Students) 11
Top Honor Roll 9,10,11
Eagle High Newspaper Reporter of the Year, 11
Finalist- District Japanese Speech Contest, 9,10
Idaho Journalism Advisor's Association- Superior Rating for Editorial Writing, 12

Sports:
Avid cyclist who averages about 20 Hrs/WK on the bike, and has completed the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic (200 miles in 2 days) the last two years.

Work experience:
Hollywood Video Guest Service Representative (15hrs/wk)

Essays:
I'm quite proud of them. I have a friend who works in the UCLA admissions department and called them, "creative, inspiring, and superbly written."

Applying as a journalism major.

Tenacious_J · November 5, 2004, 2:53pm

Parasail, the SAT score and GPA will really hurt, especially the GPA. UNC out of state is practically ivy league level in terms of difficulty. Maybe 20 or 30 percent chance because of the good ECs.

neelesh · November 5, 2004, 6:20pm

i would say more like a 24% chance because of your low gpa and SATs...UNC like tenacious said, is very hard to get into out of state...

i applied there EA, my stats in a shell were: 1370 SAT, 3.83 weighted gpa, which will be a 3.91 which i will send for midterm grades.....because we have the trimester system...

good luck!

parasail2005 · November 5, 2004, 6:33pm

I failed to mention that A) we are private and don't rank (class size of almost 100) and B) will complete 3 AP's by the time i graduate including AP Bio which i took junior year (normally taken senior yr, at my school at least). I also took many honors and accel. courses, pretty difficult course load in general...hope this helps you in deciding my chances Thanks, Stephanie