<p>Does anyone know how difficult it is to earn this full scholarship as an out-of-state applicant with perfect stats? Do they look for major awards, or can they be sufficiently impressed without them? Anecdotes are welcome.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>UNC hands out approximately 200 merit-scholarships a year (not all Carolina Scholars). OOS the Carolina Scholars program gives a full ride. For the most part, invitations to scholarship day, and to the Honors Program, are based upon your essays, but test scores and GPA are a factor. Once invited to scholarship day, I believe the interview/talking with the person who leads your table is the most important part. I know there are some current students who comment on this forum fairly regularly who worked scholarship day who can give you better info than I can.</p>
<p>Here is the FAQ: [The</a> Office of Scholarships & Student Aid at UNC-Chapel Hill](<a href=“http://studentaid.unc.edu/studentaid/faq/ssa_scholarship_faq.html]The”>http://studentaid.unc.edu/studentaid/faq/ssa_scholarship_faq.html)</p>
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This is very true. Every admissions officer I’ve talked to at UNC has told me that essays play a very important part in admissions and scholarships.</p>