Which school should I apply restrictive EA

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Unweighted GPA-3.89</p>

<p>Weighted GPA-4.25</p>

<p>UC GPA-4.15(I Think)</p>

<p>Classes-Three AP, Plan on 5 more. Honors in everything else throughout my high school career.</p>

<p>Class Rank-School does not do ranking but I am probably in the top 10% with a class of 1000+</p>

<p>ACT Super-scored- 31(34M 29R 30E 32S Writing 10/12)</p>

<p>ACT 30(34M 29E 28R 27S W10/12) Hopefully bringing that up to a 32. I have been doing a ton of studying lately.</p>

<p>AP scores-Physics-4 USH-5 Gov-4
and next year(senior year) I will be taking Calc BC, Lit, Both Econs, Physics C, and will most likely get 4-5 on all with the exception of lit.</p>

<p>EC-NHS, MECS(Environmental club) and a leader in, CEC(Helping children with disabilities have some fun after school), disk golf club and 50+ hours of community service</p>

<p>Employment- Working at a grocery store for 2 months at 25 hours a week, getting promoted soon.</p>

<p>Awards- Presidental education award</p>

<p>Essay/Recs- Not sure what I am going to write about but my school spends 5 weeks at the beginning of the year to fix and make the essays perfect so probably a good essay. Will be getting good recs from two AP teachers.</p>

<p>Im out of state and I’m looking at Stanford, Duke, and UNC-CH. Which should I apply restrictive EA. If I can raise my score to 32 then which should I do and this year I will be doing tons of EC’s.</p>

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<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but REA at Stanford doesn’t give you a major advantage. Stanford’s REA acceptance rate is higher than its normal acceptance rate because almost all of the REA applicants are extremely qualified, whereas some RA applicants apply to Stanford for “the hell of it”. I bet REA gives you a slight advantage, but it is minimal at best. I am not too familiar with the REA policies of UNC and Duke. </p>

<p>You should ultimately apply to whichever school is the best fit for you. I know it’s clich</p>

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<p>Stanford is just my major reach school so just asking opinions but UNC and Duke’s EA raises acceptance to 43% and 38% respectfully. I’m having trouble figuring out which one because I know I have a good shot at UNC on EA but I don’t know about Duke</p>

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<p>Bump. Looking for responses mainly on duke and unc_ch</p>

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<p>Bump again looking for feed back</p>

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<p>UNC-CH early action isn’t restrictive. And Duke has early decision so if you apply ED at Duke you have to attend Duke if admitted.</p>

<p>UNC-CH EA: Reach (you may as well ED at Duke if you applied at UNC-CH EA)
Stanford SCEA: Reach (higher than Duke ED)
Duke ED: Reach</p>

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<p>Catria how can I improve my chance to maybe bring them down to low reaches?</p>

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<p>UNC Chapel Hill is really hard for out of state students. But their Early Action isn’t restrictive, so you should at least try.</p>