<p>Dear ---,
It is our great pleasure to inform you that you have been chosen for a merit-based scholarship at UNC-CH. blah blah blah.</p>
<p>We also hope you will join us on Scholarship Day, a special event for merit-based scholarship candidates. At this event, you will join other scholars and Carolina faculty members in small discussion groups. Following these discussions, our selection committee will make its final decisions about scholarships. Your participation will be an important part in our deliberations.</p>
<p>anyone have any idea waht goes on in these "group discussions". What do we talk about??? the way they put it, it reminds me of an environmental science debate where the person who says the most gets an A.
ew.</p>
<p>yeah i got one too. did you also get a email saying:</p>
<p>Dear Blah:</p>
<p>As your admissions representative, I wanted to send you a personal holiday message and to thank you once again for applying to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>I'm trying to figure out if theres a correlation between the email and a letter.</p>
<p>I got both letters today (the scholarship letter and the distinguished applicant letter) today plus the email a couple of days ago. Since it said we were 130 out of like 10k something early action applicants to get chosen, what are the chances that we'll actually get a scholarship? Oh yeah, are we also less likely to get another scholarship if we're already getting the national merit scholarship. Thx alot</p>
<p>i got the likely letter first, then the email, then the scholarship thingy.
and yeah i live in raleigh.</p>
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<p>As for the national merit scholarship, i might want to bring that up at the seminars. I have no idea.
sorry.</p>
<p>but back to my main question, does anyone know of anyone who attended this thing?
if yes, then what do we talk about?
i really dont want to walk in there unprepared...
thanks.</p>
<p>ps not getting either the likely email/letter doesnt mean you're not gonna get in. most of the ppl dont get either. good luck.</p>
<p>"does anyone know of anyone who attended this thing?"</p>
<p>try doing an advanced search and searching just the unc forum. if they hold this seminar year after year, probably people posted their reactions to it last year.</p>
<p>I don't think I'm going to be able to fly all the way out there for just 5 hours of interviewing (and it sounds like not all of it is interviewing/discussions either). The letter says they can make alternate arrangements. Anyone know what those would be?</p>
<p>"Looks as though the out-of-state applicants get the best deal (max = full ride) while in the in-state students get a max of $7,500."</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the NC legislature treats out of state merit scholarships as if the out of state student would have paid in-state tuition. Apparently there is some maximum amount that the system can "write off" for all merit scholarships. </p>
<p>Because the legislature caps the percentage of out of state students that can be admitted (7-8%??), they use "full scholarships" to entice top qualified out of state students to enroll, but only get "charged" for the in-state tuition amount against the total allowed for scholarship dollars.</p>
<p>The competition for the out of state slots is very fierce and the stats for admitted out of states are very high. My son from TX got the likely letter last week.</p>