UNC oos - what does it take?
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Anonymous
| Help |
Anonymous
| OOS acceptance rate is 8%. You need a near perfect GPA and high scores. |
Anonymous
| You just have to be lucky. The students I know who were accepted did not have perfect scores or GPA. Nor did they have a hook. They just happened to be lucky. |
Anonymous
| How are your basketball skills? |
Anonymous
| Yeah, not really sure. Ours got in from OOS public - no hooks. Very high stats and just normal to good ECs, but nothing extraordinary. |
Anonymous
| be an athlete. |
Anonymous
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I don't see the point in trying too hard unless there is some family legacy attachment or some program that is super perfect for the kid.
I only say this because 1) the instate kids are pretty normal public school kids and 2) they are having ongoing staff and faculty conflicts due to politics. It is a great school for the instate kids for sure but I don't understand OOS kids who trip all over themselves to get in. Seems like it is for bragging rights bc of the low OOS %. |
Anonymous
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There is no trick OP and now is not the time to be apply the school is a mess and the state isn’t doing well.
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Anonymous
| The people I know of had excellent grades and good but not amazing ECs. |
Anonymous
| It's sort of comparable to getting in OOS to UVA, right? At least in our private HS lots of kids apply to both of those schools -- |
Anonymous
| The kid I know who is there from OOS also got into Penn but chose UNC instead. He was a very strong student with excellent EC. |
Anonymous
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No special tricks for this one. Just luck.
Do your straight-forward best with the application and see what happens. |
Anonymous
NP. Can you elaborate? My kid applied EA OOS. Honestly higher ed in general seems like a mess now but I'm open to learning more if you are willing to offer insights. Thanks. |
Anonymous
| Is UNC truly test optional? |
Anonymous
| I don't get the out of state appeal at all. The in state kids I know are very average. |