Yes he applied engineering everywhere except UNC bc they DONT HAVE engineering major - only Biomedical Eng combined with NC state. Not many people know this. And yes his GPA wasn’t stellar but it got progressively better - he got a couple B’s Freshman and Sophomore year in English/History and then straight A’s Junior/Senior year in harder classes. I guess too little too late - got A+ in BC calc and AP Econ first semester senior year and A in AP Physics CnE and Ap Latin. It’s fine bc we know he will be well prepared for college. We didn’t play the game enough and have him take layup AP’s to boost his GPA etc etc. That was a conscious choice bc we value our kids happiness and feel that they will be fine in the long run even if they don’t go to the most competitive college in the country. But I do feel that he should have been accepted to NC state bc we live in NC!!
Mecklenburg county (Charlotte) and Private school. A lot of people are moving kids to public schools where tons of kids are accepted to the state schools. That’s just the tough part bc GPA’s are not all created equally. That’s what the test scores are for but we don’t look at those anymore.