<p>I just got an email congratulating me for getting into UNC and asking for my midyear grades. Only thing is, I applied regular. Was this a mistake? Did anyone else get this email?</p>
<p>Woe!! That's weird! I got accepted EA, but no one has asked me to submit my mid-year grades yet. Chapel Hill is nice though in how it communicates with the students. If you got such a nice e-mail from them then that is very encouraging!
Log in and check on your home page. When I got the good news there was a small link over a nice photo there that said something like "decision rendered" or "acceptance decision available", I clicked it and it was all history!!
Now, I have gotten e-mails from them inviting me to future events in Spring for prospective, but accepted students, and another one about a chat session for accepted students on 1/25/07. Do these remotely sound like your e-mail? They both start out with "Congratulations for being accepted......"
Sounds positive to me!!</p>
<p>Hmm, I got an e-mail today about MidYear grades, too saying "Dear Jessica:</p>
<p>Greetings from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a
normal part of our admissions process, we require that you submit your
midyear grades to us online by logging into your UNC homepage at
<a href="http://www.admissions.unc.edu%5B/url%5D">www.admissions.unc.edu</a> with your confidential username and password..."</p>
<p>Nothing about getting in w/ my e-mail :( But I do know that the Mid Year report is a standard requirement for ALL RD applicants.</p>
<p>kLou28, </p>
<p>Yes! My son also received the same email this evening. We were very surprised as he submitted his application on Dec. 28 for RD. We were wondering whether this was a mistake since there isn't anything on his account page yet. I guess we can assume it's not! Congratulations!!</p>
<p>No offense, but I really don't think that it should be taken as an acceptance. The deadline was two days ago, there's no way they read and decided already. I doubt they've started reading ANY applications, they still have to deal with a mess of sorting all the files, etc. They need to read through every application before making a decision on any of them, since it's not rolling.</p>
<p>Would you mind sharing the exact wording, perhaps you would consider copying and pasting a part of the message? Sounds real to me.</p>
<p>Dear <name>:</name></p>
<p>Congratulations again on your admission to the University. We require all admitted students to submit midyear grades to us online. To submit your grades, please log into your UNC homepage at <a href="http://www.admissions.unc.edu%5B/url%5D">www.admissions.unc.edu</a> with your confidential username and password. From your homepage, click on the link under "Important Updates Just for You". Please do not ask your guidance counselor to submit your midyears on your behalf. Instead, we require that you submit accurate and complete grades online by February 12.</p>
<p>We appreciate your continued interest in Carolina and wish you every success in the months ahead.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Office of Undergraduate Admissions
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>
<p>My daughter received an email today that read:</p>
<p>"Congratulations again on your admission to the University. We require
all admitted students to submit midyear grades to us online. To submit
your grades, please log into your UNC homepage at <a href="http://www.admissions.unc.edu%5B/url%5D">www.admissions.unc.edu</a>
with your confidential username and password. From your homepage,
click on the link under "Important Updates Just for You". Please do not ask
your guidance counselor to submit your midyears on your behalf.<br>
Instead, we require that you submit accurate and complete grades online by
February 12. </p>
<p>We appreciate your continued interest in Carolina and wish you every
success in the months ahead. "</p>
<p>It was odd in that she applied regular decision and had received no prior notification. Her 'Home Page' and 'check status' links offer no information that would indicate that she has been accepted. I suspect that there is an error at the UNC end. Phone call tomorrow.</p>
<p>I assume that there was some sort of glitch in which some of the RD applicants received the same email as the accepted EA applicants.</p>
<p>Ultraman, that's exactly what happened to me too! i'm rly confused. But according to my counselor, they can't take their words back once they've said that so yah... i rly don't know whats happening too because i applied RD too</p>
<p>yeah, it sounds like there is an error. maybe they switched the early acceptance emails with the regular ones.</p>
<p>This really sounds like a big potential error out there on UNC's part.
Carolina is really celebratory in it's acceptance process. It sends a nice link, followed by a packet of Carolina stuff, and Spring invitations, and such--not just some fleeting e-mail.
I wish the best for everyone out there, but at the moment, ...something doesn't smell right.....</p>
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<p>Actually they can. Happened at Duke a couple of years ago. As I remember, like 140 students saw they were accepted online only to get a rejection in the mail. Someone may want to fact check me on this though.</p>
<p>The "congrats again" means it's most likely an error.</p>
<p>If all UNC applicants received the same request, then I might agree that it was a mistake. However, as you can see from Jessica's message, she did not receive the same message. I'm thinking that they got ahead of the regular notification process by sending the request for mid year grades. My child was being courted by most of the Ivies, which for different reasons we decided not to apply to, so I'm not shocked by UNC's acceptance.</p>
<p>hmm, im not sure about the acceptance for RD applicants as the deadline had just passed but I applied and was accepted EA and they asked for my midterm grades too so i would assume that for RD, the midterm grades are required where as EA, it is not necessarily until later.</p>
<p>i got the same email</p>
<p>what are the stats of people who got this email</p>
<p>i seriously doubt people are getting accepted this early</p>
<p>THE DEADLINE WAS YESTERDAY! There's no way they'd EVER have ANY decisions made yet without seeing the whole pile - sorry.</p>