OK y’all…I just replied to an email I had gotten a few weeks ago that was sent to legacies to advise on what parents can do to help with the process. Here’s my email, and their response. Don’t you think they would have just told me if tomorrow was a no-go?
Hi there!!! Our whole household is on pins and needles waiting to find out if Alex is going to be joining the Wolfpack!! Can you tell me if decisions will be out tomorrow? I know that the deadline is Jan 30, but in previous years they have been released the third Friday of January. Would love to know if we need to be glued to our computers tomorrow afternoon! Thanks so much and GO PACK!!!
Response:
Our early action decision date is January 30th; however, it’s always good to check the WolfPAW account more often the closer to January 30th for any new updates. Go PACK!
For the years I’ve seen it is the 4th Friday of the month… maybe could be delayed past that for various reasons but I wouldn’t expect a decision before the 4th Friday of the month
Im sure there is a method to their madness but I will say when my boys got accepted to Georgia a couple months ago, they said the exact date and time it would be released! Seemed a bit more “fair”. But learning not alot is really “fair” in this crazy process!
I would add that UGA has the most transparent admissions process as well, with having someone from their admissions staff run a blog site with announcements…not sure why other universities would not follow suit with this, instead of leaving things in such a grey territory. My son has applied to 10 schools and older son through the process as well, just not sure why any of them cannot update a website with a more exact date and time. UGA also posts on the admissions blog some very detailed statistics after the fact about accepted students and overall numbers on admissions.
I have been through this with an older son three years ago, and seems that NC State and UNC both release the same day for the most part and usually release decisions on the third or fourth Friday of January each year, after office hours of course(so as to avoid any questions or upset students/parents for a few days). We will see tomorrow late afternoon and into the evening, if it will be released tomorrow or the 28th.
Hey y’all! i still think there is a strong chance it might be released tomorrow. Usually it’s close to the 23 of January, and last year state came out on the 21 and unc was the 27. they never actually admit that they will release decisions early haha
I’m hoping so, stress levels are high. Do y’all on campus have classes tomorrow or are they shut down due to weather? Someone on Reddit said snow may delay decisions to next week if they were supposed to come out tomorrow due to admissions officers not being able to go to campus.
So if you google “nc state early action chat”, it brings up a page for early action quick chat with counselor for admitted, deferred and rejected. Hadn’t come across that before and as I was previously in my daughters account it even had a time by her name. What happens if you search that for you? Time with Jan 28th as date? Definitely makes me think next Friday.
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