<p>ok I know that any forms can be submitted after the deadline, but now I’m having trouble with the commonapp. I’ve had all my essays and what not done for a while, so I figured it wouldn’t matter when I submit it. Well, now I’m trying to and I’m having trouble uploading the documents. When I upload my documents, I can’t ever view them. A blank white document just comes up. I’m seriously freaking out. I know I can call UNC tomorrow, but I doubt they know how to work the commonapp. Does anyone know what I should do to make this work???</p>
<p>ah wait I converted it to a PDF and now it works! Wow, hope everyone else’s night is not as stressful as mine</p>
<p>Can we commit, as a group, to not do what other groups did in previous years and count down to the exact hour when we would receive our decisions? :P</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Wishful thinking. So we should expect to hear our decisions sometime around mid April?</p>
<p>Edit: Just going off the last two years, it seems the decisions come out on the third Friday of April.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>■■■■■. Watchful like a Ninja.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Haha of course. I honestly do not mind the wait, it is just not knowing what day.</p>
<p>April 16 was 2010. Third Friday of April.</p>
<p>April 15 was 2011. Third Friday of April.</p>
<p>Just going with the trend.</p>
<p>I’m just hoping March rolls by quick…</p>
<p>Getting so nervous and antsy…
I WANNA BE A TAR HEEL ALREADY :’[</p>
<p>Transferring From: University of Nevada, Reno (and don’t love it - though it has treated me well in terms of research)
Current Classification: Junior (85 credits complete in 4 semesters - I need a more challenging curriculum)
College GPA: 3.9
Major: Biochemistry/Chemistry but true interests lie in something interdisciplinary
Minor: Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies
ACT/SAT Scores: SAT ~2100 ACT ~33
High School GPA: 3.98 UW, 5.4 W
Extracurricular Activities/Volunteer Work:</p>
<p>College ECs:
RESEARCH! In vascular biology. Fun stuff. Will be going to national SOT and EB conferences on March 15 and April 20-something to present research. Going to Turkey in July 
</p>
<p>High School ECs:
Didn’t include except for that I was valedictorian - not really relevant to my career goals and the “shape” of my application, though. </p>
<p>Volunteer Work:
Lots; started lots of things at my current campus and expanded volunteer opportunities for students here. Served with City Year in Philadelphia for a year, so it’s a passion of mine. </p>
<p>Hooks: The standard low-income, first gen stuff. Not really concerned about the hooks part. I have a unique interest in indigenous languages (can speak Washo and some Navajo). I guess that’s cool. Who knows.</p>
<p>They still haven’t matched my college transcripts with my application.
=(</p>
<p>@kev</p>
<p>Curios, was University of Nevada your first choice because those numbers are impressive. Note I’m not implying anything but with those freshman numbers it would seem you would have been a competitive applicant to nearly any school.</p>
<p>Mitch, </p>
<p>Ha, not even close. I’ve lived in NV nearly my whole life and it was my absolute last choice. I got waitlisted at Stanford and Amherst as a freshman applicant. Never got in. Then got rejected everywhere else (which was a lot of places). </p>
<p>I think it was due, in part, to my essays which were probably not that great. I didn’t have a compelling reason to go to any schools, TBH. I see the transfer process as a time to redeem myself. I have found that prestige is nice, but it really depends on what you do with your education. I’ve made my time here at UNR pretty great considering, and if you were to ask me if UNC would be on my college list back then I would have said “hell no.” I was way too prestige driven then. </p>
<p>Now, I’m a little wiser 
and am looking for a good fit more than anything - UNC offers that.</p>
<p>kev me and you have similar stats. 3.9 gpa, juniors, community service and biological research. Your sat scores and high school transcripts are more impressive than mine, but I am in state. Both of us are above the mean applicant statistic wise but from what I have gathered it’s more of a crap shoot for transfer admissions. Hopefully both of us will have some luck :)</p>
<p>Edit: Kev, I just saw that you were the one who responded to my post and said the same exact to me haha :). this is going to be a long month. On another note, I called admissions and asked if I could update my application with extracurriculars. They allowed me to send an email with application number, name, and date. I added some community service, clubs, an honor society, and most importantly my neuroscience research. hopefully our research will make us stand out!</p>
<p>Seafood, great to hear! What kind of research do you do? Do you have an abstract or something? I’d love to read it </p>
<p>PS, if we both end up at UNC we should meet up and talk research…perhaps collaborate or something!!! :D</p>
<p>Pharmacology and toxicology research. Right now I’m working on a collaboration project between the physiology department trying to identify the role of circadian rhythm on neurochemical pathways/ataxia effects of THC, ethanol, and other potentiating drugs. I started just recently so sadly no abstract or posters yet 
I am hopeful that by the end of the summer I will get to write/present and have some more concrete experience so I can carry that to UNC.</p>
<p>And I am definitely down to do some collaboration work! It’s going to be a long month :)</p>
<p>Wow, that is so awesome and actually in the same discipline as the research I’m doing! I’m also into pharmtox stuff (probably end up doing molecular pharm in grad school). </p>
<p>My current project is monitoring the effects of inorganic arsenic and arsenic metabolites on voltage gated calcium channels and large conductance potassium channels in vascular smooth muscle. So, not neuron activity but how vasomotor tone in arteries is affected by arsenic on multiple levels: expression of channels (we do QPCR), function (wire myography), and channel kinetics (patch clamp, which is my favorite technique). It is closely related to public health efforts to reduce chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water. </p>
<p>I’ll PM you my email in case you want to keep in touch that way so we don’t clog up this thread with science talk. :P</p>
<p>@kev</p>
<p>I respect that. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Is it true that UNC favors NC residents?</p>
<p>@matisyahu i’ve heard that its true for first year applicants, but that they don’t care for transfer applicants.</p>
<p>You sure? Not transfer?</p>