<p>Anyone get this email from Carolina today?
Thoughts?</p>
<p>No, but congratulations. Seems selective.</p>
<p>I got it today and i’m so excited about it! UNC is my top choice and this pretty much seals the deal lol i’m not sure which opportunities i want to choose though because all of the science ones sound amazing!!</p>
<p>There is no guarantee that you get the opportunity though!
I don’t get it.</p>
<p>You get the email and you are being considered for one of the programs. There is not guarantee you get one. I am not going to commit until I know for sure I get one.</p>
<p>There is a guarantee
“As a part of Excel@Carolina, you will receive AT LEAST one of eleven amazing opportunities and be connected to some of the best resources that Carolina offers.”</p>
<p>Did all the e-mails come out today? Or are there still more to come?</p>
<p>Thanks collegestruggs!!
The email came this afternoon.</p>
<p>does this also serve as an invitation to the honors program - or is that separate? and are all scholarship day kids invited to join this?</p>
<p>Hmm… So if we only list one do we get our top choice by default? I’d assume most people who get the email get Honors College, though, so that’s probably where the line comes from.</p>
<p>I got it too! My email came at around 2 and I wasn’t invited to Scholarship Day. I was a little worried after I didn’t get that invite that I wouldn’t get invited to Honors Carolina so this email made me very happy :)</p>
<p>I got the email as well. It seems like this is the way they’re selecting the honors program students. If this is the case, you can still take honors classes (although not with first priority) and apply to be in the honors program once you’re enrolled. Hopefully for those of you who didn’t get the email, there is an alternative way to apply for the honors program.</p>
<p>Just a reminder that the survey is due MONDAY (2/4) and you have to write 2 short statements.</p>
<p>Congrats to all that received these opportunities. This is a clever way that UNC improves the acceptance yield of academically strong students. This started two years ago and has grown in terms of the number of opportunities offered and apparently has been recently re-branded as <a href=“mailto:Excel@Carolina”>Excel@Carolina</a>. Two years ago the invites to join Honors Carolina were sent out separately from the opportunities email. This past year, Honors Carolina was incorporated as one of the opportunities offered in the opportunities email. There was no guarantee that you would get your 1st choice. I know several friends who didn’t. I would suggest a strong look at the offers that provide funding or an assured admittance into a professional school. Some of the other opportunities offered, you can apply for when you come here. Assured admits are a one time opportunity and for schools like KF are highly coveted.</p>
<p>I got the email too. What is everyone else choosing?</p>
<p>I was considering the Innovation Scholarship, but are there certain requirements we’d have to satisfy for it? Like would we have to dedicate several hours each week in a lab of some sort in order to get the scholarship?</p>
<p>NewYawk, I am confused about the relationship between the honors program and the Excel program. Do you know if last year a separate honors invitation was issued to some students, or was admission to honors solely through Excel? Also, I am curious as to whether choosing one or two of the other options in addition to honors could lessen the chance of being selected for the honors program.</p>
<p>Penn, do you have to complete the survey all at once or will you be able to start and stop ? What kind of short questions are asked I thought I would complete it during my lunch break? Is it menu driven?</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know if there were any Honors Carolina invites extended outside of the opportunities email last year. However, of all of the incoming first years that I’ve met in Honors Carolina everyone seems to have gotten the invite through the opportunities email. Only a couple of students that I have met received more than one of the opportunities they selected. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that you can apply for Honors Carolina after you come here and anyone can take honors classes (the only real benefit, as it relates to class enrollment, is that HC students get the chance to enroll earlier). Even then, the enrollment for some honors classes is controlled by the dept offering the class and NOT the Honors Carolina program/office. As such, they can give priority to their dept majors over HC students.</p>
<p>I know of one student in my daughter’s class last year that received the Honors Carolina invitation but NOT the “opportunities” letter (it was a letter last year offering nine opportunities, I think). My daughter was the only one to receive the “opportunities” letter from her school. So I don’t think they’re necessarily linked (or at least they weren’t for this year’s freshmen class).</p>
<p>My daughter chose the summer study abroad scholarship as her #1 choice and the KF Assured Admit as her second. She received both. In the past, the KF program used to have about 35 - 40 students but this year it is double that.</p>