<p>Does anyone know if we’ll get an email or something about our decision too? </p>
<p>I think the letter is going to be sent to my house, not my dorm.</p>
<p>They post them on your my unc and then they’ll send letters to your address. I’m not sure about an email</p>
<p>Hi guys, I applied to UNC too. I was looking for the thread in the transfer section, but I didn’t see one, so I figured it might be in this section!</p>
<p>My stats:
Freshman @ a GA public college. It is a commuter that is gaining some reputation.</p>
<p>College GPA: 4.0
HS GPA: 92/100
SAT Scores: 2160 (2180 superscore)
HS ECs: Nothing spectacular. Pretty ordinary
College ECs: Again, just average ECs.</p>
<p>I have a couple awards, but none worth mentioning.</p>
<p>I am pretty nervous about the UNC decisions because it is the first decision I will receive from all the schools I applied to. Hopefully I get accepted so I won’t have to stress for a couple weeks about my other decisions.</p>
<p>I wonder how many people applied as transfers… I just read somewhere that they accept around 900 transfer students.</p>
<p>I want to change my address on my application. Right now it is my home address, so my decision will be sent there and not to my dorm. Does anyone know of a way to change this?</p>
<p>Bcotton530: Last year 3,226 applied, 1,259 were accepted, and 766 enrolled. But I feel like less people applied this year, just from the length of this thread compared to last year’s thread.</p>
<p>The person I have been in contact with in admissions said roughly 3,000 applied this year. The acceptance rate for transfers is somewhere around 30%.</p>
<p>Dgreen: You can change your mailing address through your myunc account.</p>
<p>DEAC, im sort of in the same boat as you. My SAT was a 1340/2040, I went to a super competitive High School (Consistently top 30 in the country) and I also go to Wake Forest and kind of got screwed 1st semester by the grade deflation here. I took a challenging course load, but my grades (C, C+, B-, B,B, B+) have me worried. If someone could chance me too that’d be great. HS GPA was like a 3.9 weighted, south carolina does weighting a little differently than north carolina if thats relevant. College EC’s include working 8+ hours a week 1st semester, RUF, intramural soccer, and volunteering for 20 hours of Christmas break. HS EC’s include state champion with my varsity soccer team, state runner up with my club team, national honor society, and French National Honor Society. also an URM if that makes a difference.</p>
<p>CCstudentNYC </p>
<p>Thank you! just fixed it!</p>
<p>last year, the acceptance rate is 42%…</p>
<p>I’m really anxious to hear back. I’m pretty concerned about the decision.
3.85gpa at UNC-Greensboro
3.7gpa in high school
Member of a couple honor societies in college, and a couple of clubs.</p>
<p>Catch is my SAT was horrible, and I never took it more than once. How much weight are they going to put on it? It was 1020 two part and 1680 overall. I never studied for the thing, and it obviously shows.
I’m also worried that only one recc wasn’t enough, even if it was from a distinguished alumni. I guess it’s a little too late now.</p>
<p>Transferring as a sophomore too. Philosophy major. Do you guys think the Philosophy major will help me get in at all, or are my chances pretty slim?</p>
<p>@carolinaboy
Way back when I was first looking into transferring, I remember the woman I spoke to telling me that they look at high school stuff a lot. Now, I’m not sure if she was right. But, that’s what I was told… & you didn’t need any recommendations. So I’m sure you having one is fine.</p>
<p>I’m no expert but from what I was told I gathered that the further you are into your academic career the less they look at high school. The reason I had the GED problem was because when I called months ahead of the deadline and someone at admissions told me because I’m Non-Trad and a junior they literally won’t even look at my high school records or GED at all and “I shouldn’t even bother sending them.” After I submitted the application they said I needed them to apply, but they would barely be looked at. </p>
<p>My best educated guess is Freshman transfers get the same treatment as first year applicants because there’s still a lot of doubt as to how they’re going to handle their academic career. For sophomores they will still look, but a little less at high school and your SAT/ACT and more at how you’ve done in college and your EC’s/Internships. And for juniors I can pretty much tell from what I’ve been told that they collect said items just to really put the pieces of your life together, they focus on your college transcripts,essay and EC’s mostly and just need the high schools stuff to help paint the picture that is your life. And that makes sense considering they’re really just trying to weed out people that will fail/drop out/transfer and mess up their graduation rate and possible future endowments. </p>
<p>For example, without even looking at your application there’s statistical data out there that shows higher drop out rates in freshmen and sophomores than in juniors and seniors. This article I found is four years old, but states “It is estimated that 40% of college students will leave higher education without getting a degree, with 75% percent of these students leaving within their first two years of college. Freshman class attrition rates are typically greater than any other academic year and are commonly as high as 20-30%. These statistics show a need for colleges to do something about retention rates.” I’m sure our dynamic economy and job market has slightly altered these numbers, but I’m positive they’re almost spot on. </p>
<p>Finally, If you spent as much time as I have looking at numbers with colleges, you might have noticed that there is a direct correlation between tougher admissions/size of school and the higher the graduation rate/endowment is. So, they’re really trying to select people that they know will be motivated enough to successfully acclimate and won’t fail/quit to fill the slots that people who didn’t cut it,transferred, or dropped out left behind. And Chapel Hill has a %73.0 graduation rate; between grade deflation and a student body the size of a small town of 25,000 people that’s very impressive and I bet they want to keep it that way. So, all in all I think it’s safe to say the further you are with your academic career the less they look at high school and the easier it gets. I don’t think it really depends that much on what major.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve probably spent 10-15 hours doing research. One of my best friends who is currently a student at UNC keeps telling me that I’m for sure getting in. However, I guess the uncertainty definitely plagues everyone. I do have a really solid internship that I’ve had for the last two years with a pretty big scholarship foundation, in which I’ve done a lot of marketing work for them. I think that might help my chances, but I really just don’t know, because of how low my SAT score is.</p>
<p>For students who applied to econ, how many economics and math classes did you guys take? My college only offers Micro and Macro econ so I only took that and since I’m really bad at math, I’m taking Calculus 1 right now and took statistics.</p>
<p>@Carolinaboy
I think it is. People are telling me the same. But I can never be certain. Just gotta wait and hope I get in. </p>
<p>@jk1018
I didn’t apply econ. but I think you can see the requirements and everything on their website and compare where you are to where they’d expect you to be(?)</p>
<p>Carolinaboy: I’m in the same boat. My good friends and boyfriend are there and they are 100% sure I’ll get in, but I’m so doubtful. I don’t want to get my hopes up for nothing!</p>
<p>Wow, This wait is eating at my soul. I never get nervous and I’m starting to worry. I really hope the fact they got my GED weeks into the reviewing process isn’t the nail in my coffin. It just occurred to me that if I were in admissions I would definitely stalk this thread and try to identify us. It can’t be that hard. And it would help with figuring out who exactly is intending on enrolling.</p>