<p>Did I seriously miss the fact that we could send recommendation letters? As far as I could find, there was nothing about rec letters. That’s too bad- because two of my teachers wrote fabulous ones that I think would make the difference between acceptance and rejection.</p>
<p>They don’t care if you send them, and aren’t required. There may have been one mention of it somewhere, perhaps on the paper application. There was no mention of it on the online application. I think for the most part, people took it upon themselves.</p>
<p>You get a PID when you’re admitted.</p>
<p>gopop: when you were waitlisted did they give you any information about how many others were also waitlisted, if you could interview, if you needed to submit more grades, if you could submit more rec letters, etc?</p>
<p>Also, did you get arrested in highschool or have anything bad happen that would have kept you out because those are some pretty damn good stats</p>
<p>xmastemah: I have a PID number on my myunc account information page, i’m pretty sure everyone gets one. do you have one on yours? it is on the page that you are directed to when you click ‘update information’ under the Account Information tab on the left side of the myunc homepage.</p>
<p>Per UNC’s Website:</p>
<p>Prospective students will have a PID created upon completion of Guest ID creation. The way in which students are notified of their PID depends on which admissions office they have applied with. Undergraduates will be notified of their PID when they are sent a letter notifying that they have been accepted. Graduate Schools will notify prospective students that their application has been received. In that notification they will be given their PID and told to use it to check the status of their application on line. Students already having a PID can have it reactivated when they re-enroll. Any student not enrolled in the current semester will receive notice that their ONYEN is no longer active. This status will continue until the student re-enrolls. Student PID problems are resolved by the Student Information Systems Coordinator’s Office located in the Student and Academic Services Building (SASB). Similarly, Continuing Studies will create a PID for a part-time student. Student records become inactive when a student fails to register by the end of the drop/add period for the current spring or fall semester.</p>
<p>Any student that is either new, transferring or readmitted to the University will be able to create an ONYEN upon acceptance.</p>
<p>The issuance of a PID does not indicate that you have or will be admitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Admissions decisions are communicated only in writing and only by the respective admissions office.</p>
<p>Your PID isn’t a real PID. I think it can only be used in dealing with the Admissions Office/FA, nothing more.</p>
<p>uncsoph- No, they did not give me an opportunity to send in materials to improve my application after I accepted a spot on the waitlist. I would add that the waitlist is not a good place to be. I’m pretty sure that last year they accepted less than 10 people off a transfer waitlist of several hundred. </p>
<p>And no, I did not get arrested in high school. Joking aside though, I don’t want to speculate about why I didn’t get in as a sophomore transfer, because I just don’t know. What I do know was that I was truly shocked that I did not get in, since all I was hearing was about how much easier it is to get in as a transfer than as a first year. Obviously, quantitative factors are not a good predictor of admission. I guess you just have to be ‘Carolina material.’</p>
<p>On second thought, they did want my grades from the spring semester. Those didn’t really help though, considering that I got a 4.0 that semester.</p>
<p>If it wasn’t your qualitative materials, I’d consider you a statistical anomaly. Far worse people, IS and OOS have gotten in.</p>
<p>wow gopop, you should be a shoe in ths semester i would think. are you instate? i know that it ‘doesnt matter for transfers’ but i wouldnt be surprised if unc still leaned towards instaters for transfer admissions.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if someone already told everyone, but in state DOES matter for admission for UNC. Under North Carolina law, a certain percent of all students admitted to UNC must be instate residents… I believe it is somewhere along the lines of 75% but I did not look up the number. I hate to break it to you like that but North Carolina has this law for most of the major schools.</p>
<p>back to uncsoph’s comment, i haven’t really done my research for unc equivalency - this is mainly because the list they offer is really incomplete for my school. nothing is listed for my calculus, phil of relig, early civ, music culture, music perf, french of any level, econ of any level classes for my college…can a non-admitted student meet with a unc counselor to figure this out? i’m happy if i transfer with 70+ - i won’t be happy if i go and only get 50-something.</p>
<p>I thought that in-state only mattered for first-year applicants? Maybe I misunderstood what someone said earlier…</p>
<p>When we went over it, it came down to school population + number of admitted per semester for each school. In addition, there is a program so that North Carolina students from community colleges are guaranteed acceptance into one of the school in North Carolina. But it has nothing to do with first-year applicants and does, in fact, have to do with ALL admissions. This is why UNC is notoriously hard to get into as an out of state student. And by that, it really just boils down to having competitive stats and what the proportion of out of state to instate acceptance is. So it’s a lot more factors than can be figured out before hand but the numbers of acceptance for UNC can probably provide a good average for number of out of state coming in.</p>
<p>I remember reading on UNC’s website something along the lines of “we don’t consider state residency for transfer students”. I could be wrong, although i vividly remember having read something like that.</p>
<p>I’m positive that’s false soze…As I am instate and had to go through an extensive process of proving I was instate. I’m not trying to discourage people, I saw a lot of the stats of students here and many of you are very competitive as OOS, but the factor of Instate vs. out of state for transfers is still there</p>
<p>Instate vs. out of state for 2009 was ~80% to 20% respectively (As a collected amount). From what I’m reading, a lot of UNC hopefuls moved to North Carolina and went to a school such as ECU or another state school for a year in order to gain residency. Extreme I think, but I guess if you have your heart set on it, it works. Also, it seems NC and Virginia are 2 of the biggest instate hordes in the country.</p>
<p>Residency DOES NOT MATTER for transfer admissions. They do accept MORE IS students because more of them apply. </p>
<p>It’s ONLY first-year admissions that are limited to 82% IS admissions. Only 18% can be OOS.</p>
<p>JesseG: The residency application to prove your residency shouldn’t have been required for transfer students from IS. Because your residency status is obvious if you went to school IS or OOS prior to UNC. Me and my RL friend didn’t have to fill out the residency portion and we’re both students at UNCC. When I went from CPCC to UNCC, the process was the same. No residency application needed because I was already coming from an NC school. Also, going to another school in NC without living there will NOT get you residency status. You have to have an address in the state in which you’ve paid taxes on and lived at for over a year.</p>
<p>Yes, the UNC system does not favor OOS students, and it shouldn’t. We pay the highest education taxes in the U.S, so it should only go to help our own residents.</p>
<p>I’m sorry and I don’t mean to argue but that is incorrect xMastemah, and it is required for all IS. And your statistic for more applying is also false, as there is no fact upon that basis. I understand it’s upsetting that UNC is primarily an instate school, but it does not mean hope is lost when applying. </p>
<p>If you would like to find an article disproving this, I would be more than happy to agree with you, but from one on one with staff of UNC, I can say that transfer does take residency into account.</p>
<p>i think mastemah has a point…the bulk of the applicant pool is in-state, so a 4:1 ratio accepted doesn’t seem that slanted to me. it would be nice to know exactly what the applicant pool was IS vs OOS however.</p>