UNC’s OOS Acceptance rate is 8.2% as of Class of 2026, and I also got into Honors Carolina & Accelerated Research Program, the former said to be pretty selective according to the website, as an oos asian male with no hooks and a not pretty academic trend and transcript I was stunned by even acceptance let alone the special offers, and I was wondering how this sort of acceptance signals for prospects for other acceptances of schools with similar selectivity, which are most oos publics like UMich, UCLA, Cal and the whole lot of privates within the t20-t30 range, ones I focused on being Emory Rice WashU Duke and a couple more. I know everything is super low, and that there’s a good chance UNC is my only acceptance that I got super lucky on and everything else is gonna reject, but I was wondering maybe if any past trends showed a correlation between unc oos honors and these top schools idk?
You’ll know soon enough.
There are kids in at Carolina and rejected at Ivies and kids in at Ivies and rejected at Carolina.
Each school will make their own decision. As they’re independent in evaluating the application, I would not expect correlation.
Given your entrance though into UNC, I doubt your allocation was as diminished as you think.
Congrats to you - and good luck whether you end up at Carolina or elsewhere.
Are you full pay? It could signal the fact that UNC wants your out of state tuition dollars.
Your acceptance to UNC should not be viewed as anything predictive about your other applications. Just wait and see.
Congratulations! UNC is a terrific school. About 30 highly qualified kids apply from our OOS high school every year, and normally only the recruited athletes, and an occasional student with national level achievements get in.
What it means is you already have one excellent acceptance in hand. Congratulations on that.
There are excellent kids everyone wants – quite rare – and excellent kids that fit what a particular school is looking for. The latter can be anything from geography, gender, major, interests, ethnicity, ability to pay, etc. It’s really not a matter of “good enough”!
You’ll find out soon enough who else needs what you’re offering. Congratulations on having a great option in hand!
You had very strong stats, plus you’re OOS and I suspect a full-pay student. Congratulations! Assuming that your family can afford it, you are into a great school, and the rest will be icing on the cake. Relax. Enjoy the rest of your senior year. There’s probably nothing now that you can do to influence the RD schools, unless you’ve just had a publication accepted, or just won some truly impressive award, or some other national/int’l achievement that you’ve just found out about. It would be very nice if you get to choose among several highly selective schools, but you can only go to one, and UNC is perfectly wonderful, as that one.
i actually am set to have a publication accepted in february, not confirmed but if it does happen is it wise to update rd’s? and if so would I email the regional AO or admissions office?
I am full pay, but I thought schools were need-blind when making a decision
Some schools, even prestigious ones like Tufts are need aware, but I don’t believe UNC (or any public) is among them. According to their website they are need blind for all.
I’d venture to say your overall package is far superior to what you think. That you are trying to publish probably ours yiu ahead of 98% of students in that regard (not that it’s necessary - it’s not).
If you are published and it’s you (as primary), then sure email proof to both or upload if there’s a place so it can be considered.
ok i see, so I should email proof to the admissions office and regional ao? and for schools that have an update button in the portal is this the only spot I should use?
this is purely if it happens early enough, there’s a decent chance the paper won’t get published until near the end of the year but there isn’t a set date so its just in the case that it happens earlier rather than later so I can send it to them
I’ll let others answer but to me, if you have confirmation and it’s reputable, then it won’t hurt. Likely won’t help but won’t hurt.
It predicts that you now have a solid chance of attending UNC. It predicts that, at the end of the application season, you will have an amazing college to attend.
At the end of the day, you can only attend one college. Honors Carolina at UNC is the equivalent or better of the other colleges which you mentioned. So my recommendation is that you relax in the knowledge that, no matter what, you will be attending a “top” college if you choose to do so.
Congratulations and good luck!
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