Explain "Explore Carolina", "Decision Days", "Scholarship Day", and Honors Carolina

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>I got accepted as an instate student to UNC (woohoo!)
I also just got 2 invitations today, one for "Explore Carolina",
and one for "Decision Days".</p>

<p>Can somebody explain to me the difference? It seems to me that both just allow you to visit campus and try to convince you to come to UNC. Also, in this thread:</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-north-carolina-chapel-hill/1610673-scholarship-day-invitation.html#latest"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-north-carolina-chapel-hill/1610673-scholarship-day-invitation.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Somebody mentions Scholarship Day. Can you explain to me what that is?</p>

<p>Finally, when do we get invitations to the Honors College at Carolina?</p>

<p>Thanks for all your help!</p>

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<p>Decision Days is for people who are very new to the UNC process and the college itself. This program emphasizes diversity and multicultural aspects of UNC.
Explore Carolina is given to all admitted students for everyone to learn more about UNC.
Scholarship Day is a highly selective day in which highly qualified candidates are invited to campus for a discussion seminar to compete for scholarships (2K to full ride).</p>

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<p>thanks rafanadal. I guess the only question left is when does news about Honors Carolina come out…</p>

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<p>My son was just invited to both honors Carolina and Scholarship day. Apparently 120 were invited from 17,000 for Scholarship day. </p>

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<p>are you guys in state or out of state?</p>

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<p>We are instate. </p>

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<p>congrats 1415mom! that’s really awesome. Btw, I just got an email this morning inviting me to Tarheel Launch. Any ideas about what that is?</p>

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<p>My son got an email about Tarheel Launch also. I don’t know what that is. Maybe someone from the forum can let us know. </p>

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<p>Check this out
<a href=“http://admissions.unc.edu/tar-heel-launch/”>http://admissions.unc.edu/tar-heel-launch/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>interesting. thanks for the link saona. Do you think they’ve already sent all the invites to scholarship day? that’s really the only one that i’m interested in.</p>

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<p>hey, just got my excel@carolina invitation today, along with my acceptance package. Does this mean I have a shot at Honors Carolina? Also, how many ppl were invited to Excel@Carolina?</p>

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<p>^ Yes it does. That’s how most are invited into Honors Carolina. I don’t know the numbers for this year (plus they do this for RD also).</p>

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<p>OP, were you invited to Scholarship Day by email or snailmail?</p>

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<p>i wasn’t invited to scholar day. just excel@carolina, explore carolina, decision days, and tarheel launch. everything but excel@carolina were by email. excel was by regular mail</p>

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<p>^Based on what you were invited to, it appears that you were identified as someone they want. Hopefully this means that you have a good shot at Honors Carolina if you list it as your first choice on your Excel form. </p>

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<p>cool. thanks for all the information</p>

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<p>Just remember the assured admits are a one time offer and the funded opportunities are nice also. Some of the others (like Honors Carolina) you can apply for when you get here. Plus everyone can take honors classes at UNC and to graduate with honors or highest honors requires a senior thesis (which again, anyone can do if you have the required GPA).</p>

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<p>You make a good point. I probably won’t be going to UNC in the end, so it doesn’t really matter to me, but this is definitely something to consider for other tarheels</p>

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<p>If you don’t select Honors Carolina, but just take honor courses. You would not have the early registration privilege, right?</p>

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<p>^ Yes, that is correct (in most cases…read below), but honestly that’s not a really big deal, as many don’t fill up so fast. Also some of the more mainstream honors classes require departmental consent and that means the associated dept decides who gets to enroll based upon their own selection criteria and timeframes (and Honors Carolina can’t, or won’t, influence that). An example of that practice is that the UNC chemistry dept routinely gives priority to chem majors for enrollment into the honors chemistry courses over Honors Carolina students who are not declared chem majors.</p>

<p>And just to clarify, the Honors Carolina early registration privilege is not for any regular classes you may need. </p>