@nanosec – https://www.unc.edu/posts/2020/11/16/2020-early-action/?utm_campaign=111620+Carolina+receives+31,940+applications+for+its+first-year+early+action+admission+deadline&utm_medium=bitly&utm_source=Twitter
@homerdog – I think it’s the TO thing. And, it’s affordable, great school despite the COVID issues this semester.
@homerdog – slight nuanced correction to your comment re: UNC. The governor of NC has been very good overall on COVID, so it’s not the ‘state’ that made the UNC reopening decisions.
UNC is governed by the UNC System Board of Governors – which is its own governing agency for the state’s 16 universities. This board is the one who wouldn’t let each campus make its own re-opening decisions. Its members are appointed by the state legislature which is controlled by one party due to gerrymandering (I bet you can guess which one!). But they are now letting the campuses take a lot more precautions. I’m sure they heard from MANY angry students and parents.
I’m quite fond of our governor so I didn’t want folks to think he ran this particular show!
@AlmostThere2018 however OOS kids have about as much of a chance of getting in there as Harvard or MIT…lol…
But for sure a great value, a great school in a great college town for NC residents. I’m very jealous.
@homerdog Well for us that can’t afford 70K school that has great COVID response will but have to make the best of it.
Does any know if those ACT/SAT averages are composite or super score? The post does not specify. I assume they are composite but would like to confirm if possible.
All the kids we know at UT and TAMU say they had a great semester so far despite Covid. I don’t think anyone that is looking to attend a public flagship will switch to a small private school due to the school’s Covid response.
@H0llyw00d superscored.
Also, I posted this in the UGA forum, but this is Dr. Graves’ response to one of the blog post comments. I really respect his transparency and UGA’s effort to stick to a quick notification timeline (and ability to flex on the timing of honors and scholarship decisions to do so).
"For this year, we have roughly 21,000 EA applications, and we have roughly 5 weeks between the deadline and the decision release date. As such, there is no way we can do whole student reviews on all these applications. As in the past, we are looking at the academic information first, and for some applicants, we will admit them based on their extremely strong academic work. For another large group, their academic information is very strong (core grades, core curriculum choices, and if sent then test scores), and we have been reading these files for the past 5 weeks. For another group below that, we have a large number of strong applicants whose academic work is strong, but not as strong as the first two groups. We will defer these students so we can have time to review their files in more detail (the information you referred to). Lastly, we have a small group of applicants where their academic work is not competitive, and we will deny these students based on this information.
Remember, we do not know what the RD application pool will be like, so we have to be cautious in how we move forward with decisions, as we treat EA and RD the same in the review process."
@nanosec Thanks again! I re-read the blog post and see the comment about it being super scored.
Anyone else watching the Davidson zoom on Admissions that includes guest speaker Jeff Selingo?
Edited to add: for example they indicate that at some of the highly selective places they are receiving only test scores from only low 30s so far of students.
And the schools supposedly thought that about half of students would submit scores.
So much lower than anticipated.
Totally agree. Everyone we know that started at TAMU & UT this fall as freshman are adjusting fine, even with the Covid changes and are regularly getting free Covid tests.
@evergreen5 - Good questions. I will ask them.
Edited to add: They didn’t answer the chat questions I submitted. Drat.
Thanks! She has had about ten interviews so far, but all at schools where she could schedule the interviews herself. There are a few on her list that are don’t-call-us-we’ll-call-you types, and this is one of them. I am happy for her. Though I think all this means is that she is not an auto-reject – doesn’t mean she is admitted or even that she is almost admitted. Just means her application wasn’t so horrible that they felt talking to her would be a waste of time. 
She is nervous about this one, but she is good at public speaking and she likes talking to everyone - she’s a down-to-earth extrovert - so I think she’ll be fine. Her younger sister, on the other hand, is a massive introvert so I think when her time comes we might pay someone to work with her on her interviewing skills.
@JanieWalker - Excellent news for your daughter!! Hope it goes beautifully. (I bet it will!)
From Seligo on twit ter this morning: an AO at a t20 says 43% submitted scores ED1. And they are seeing gains in diversity due to TO.
I see TAMU football game cancelled this weekend is this just a football thing or a university thing?
@123Mom123 , Darn I missed the Davidson talk. To clarify , Selingo said that top schools were seeing 30% range applying with scores? Any sense on which schools these were, and if Davidson was one ? Or Emory? (Especially since his book had inside info on these two)
That is such a low % submitting scores. I am really surprised–is anyone else surprised? I feel like I just do not have a good picture of the whole applicant pool, based on our area.
And the schools that are up on applications EA/ED:
I have seen that UGA, UVA, UNC, Brown all up. UF down . Does anyone know others?
@123Mom123 I watched while making dinner. There wasn’t much new info to report.
I am hoping we will start to hear more info on applications as the days go by since some the ED deadline was today for some schools.
@2Devils - Correct. They did not disclose school names, only said highly selective schools. (Right. It Doesn’t tell us much!)
But…yes, I’m rather surprised, too.
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Remind us. Did your D show interest at Midd? Visit or talk to an admissions officer? Any history with your high school? Obviously ED is the ultimate interest but I’m sure they still need to see fit. We do know one student who transferred out of Midd. Too cold. Too remote. Transferred to Vanderbilt. I think Midd likes to feel like the student gets what it’s like to go to school there. Plus, remember the 55 percent includes athletes and Questbridge.
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@homerdog She had a small group admissions session two weeks ago with our area’s AO. She followed up with a thank you email and explained why she thinks Midd is a good fit.
Her school has sent two students to Middlebury in the last four years (her school is small, with less than 30 in a graduating class).
The college counselor places a call to the college of every ED applicant to advocate on their behalf, so hopefully this will help as well.
I talked to my D today and reminded her that it will be fine either way. If she’s accepted, great! If not, we have the opportunity in the spring to visit each school where she’s been accepted (or at least drive around the area).
I am so curious to learn ED application rates of LACs. I eagerly await the data!
Tried editing…clearly I don’t have the quote option figured out.
Thanks for reporting on the Selengo / Davidson talk. I’m really curious how this season will play out.