<p>Okay - how many times have you all checked the admissions blog? Or are you just waiting for an email?
Me? D checks her email & I check the blog every hour…crazy, I know</p>
<p>fully expecting a deferral from unc at the least but no worries…6-6 on apps so far…ive got options</p>
<p>I’m dying to get my decision. Anytime before Thursday this week would be amazing.</p>
<p>@holahellokitty Unfortunately your situation is different, because they’ll see it on your final transcript. What I said only applied BEFORE the decision, you know application wise.
I mean if you failed or something that may be sucky especially is you are deferred. [Not jinxing you or anything]</p>
<p>Does anyone know definitively if they recalculate GPA or not? Because without the 6.0 for APs my GPA will seem below average, but with it, it would seem above average OOS. Not that it probably matters that much since they can see the context of grades, I just want reassurance that they look deeper than just the number.</p>
<p>I believe UNC does recalculate GPAs so everyone is on the same scale, at least that is what my son told me last year. Who told him? I have no idea. We are instate and he attended a private school where the only courses offered were honors and AP. An A in honors is worth 4 and an A in AP is worth 5. The students in our school would appear to have much lower GPAs than the public school students. I believe my son’s weighted GPA at admissions time was around 3.8. He got in and got a merit award. The admissions folks obviously had figured out the rigor of our school and knew his GPA would be much higher with the public school scale. Stop worrying! :)</p>
<p>^^ UNC is great at figuring out school rigor. I got in with a 3.403 unweighted from a top school, so you’ll be fine :)</p>
<p>^ thanks for that insight. </p>
<p>4 days left guys :D!</p>
<p>This is from “Julie” on admissions blogspot last january.</p>
<p>“For your GPA question, are you asking if we recalculate GPA’s for all our applicants on some standard scale? No, we don’t do that. We use the official GPA that your school calculates. But we certainly understand that grading scales and GPA scales differ greatly from school to school. We always consider a student’s GPA within the context of their school and your counselor provides us with good information about what is typical at your school.”</p>
<p>[UNC</a> Admissions Blog: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions](<a href=“http://unc-admissions.blogspot.com/2009/01/decisions-decisions-decisions.html]UNC”>UNC Admissions Blog: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions)</p>
<p>Yup I saw that this morning while seraching the blog. Thanks for posting Brave.</p>
<p>Thanks Brave. I guess we all just need to read the blog!</p>
<p>Sigh. As always, we home-schoolers are somewhere out in left field. That’s especially true for those of us who have designed our own curriculum, instead of using a “canned” program. We don’t give conventional grades; we just rely on day-to-day monitoring of our kids’ progress, plus their performance on yearly standardized tests. This makes the whole GPA question kind of dicey. </p>
<p>Well, one of the places where DS applied asked home-schoolers to cite “chief textbook used” for each home-school course on their transcripts. (As always, home-schoolers have to prove their bona fides. We have to prove we’re not hillbilly neanderthals providing our kids with sub-standard educations. Or something like that…)</p>
<p>Anyway, I found that this actually worked out well: It showed the rigor of our curriculum, for sure. So, I used that transcript for other schools where DS applied. Recently I sent an updated version of the same transcript to Chapel Hill. I hope it gives them a good idea of our home school’s rigor. </p>
<p>I’m not the primary home-school teacher. My husband is. He holds a liberal arts PhD, and he has tons of teaching experience. I couldn’t home-school if my life depended on it, but DH has done a terrific job at it, with both of our sons. And the curriculum is downright intimidating. I could never have mastered that stuff in high school – no way. My kids are way beyond where I was at their age. I hope and trust that UNC CH will see this from the transcript. Oh well…I can but hope.</p>
<p>Just read this on the blog:</p>
<p>Sorry, but we have no plans at this point to release decisions any earlier than 1/21. We’re sorry for the wait, but we do appreciate your hanging in there. For the very latest, please stay posted to this blog</p>
<p>I hope they still come out Thursday :/</p>
<p>What’s the difference going to be in the actual decision if you know the 20th or the 21st? Let’s just all be patient guys or you’ll end up worrying yourselves to death lol</p>
<p>My sanity 
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<p>I submitted the application in early September…the waiting is KILLING me</p>
<p>I was honestly just about to post that carolinahopeful. It is ridiculous that they wait till the 21st. Every other EA school has released thier decisions by now. This wait is killing me.</p>
<p>I submitted in September as well. Waiting on other colleges to release decisions has taught me not to worry myself to death. 4 days is always better than four to five months :)</p>
<p>I think the closer it gets, the harder the wait…after this, it’s 2 whole months til the rest of D’s notifications arrive. Glad Spring Break falls in there! Anyone going anywhere fun?
We are headed to Mexico</p>
<p>I didn’t have to wait that long for some of my other schools, some of which I applied to much later. I do understand that UNC gets a TON of applications, I just wish they had three deadlines. The most horrible part is that our decisions have probably been made for a long time…they’re just sitting in the computer database unannounced to us. I’m hoping it’ll be at midnight because then it’s more like 3 days :)</p>
<p>As soon as they’re released I can quit worrying (unless of course I’m deferred and then it’ll be even worse)</p>
<p>I applied to Michigan - they got a great deal more applications than UNC. </p>
<p>Anyways, over spring break I’m staying at home and waiting for decisions :).</p>