I was able to log in fine
Oh:-/ darn it!
I got in fine.
@lisaol, my understanding is you can receive a flat out no today- if not a strong applicant. On the border applicants could get a deferral an put back into the pool with the regular admission applications which were due mid January. They will hear by the end of March. Or of course you could get a magical yes. This is from a college placement counselor we know. She recommends that not-so-stong applicants not do early admission but tells strong applicants to do early admission. For what it’s worth. Oh- and the cake reference- someone might have just meant they were making one just in case, sort of being optimistic- not realizing it would sound like they had already heard. Maybe.
also the main connect carolina page says “1/27 noon: decisions not out yet but this message will be updated when they are out” so that may be the only alert we get. https://connectcarolina.unc.edu
@desie1 @Proboscis @Maroonsfan @newyawk I am currently enrolled in my local public high school. Luckily, it’s a great school and all of my classes from boarding school transferred and I will graduate on time with all of my credits.
@sam21avery Yes. You are absolutely correct. I regret every day that I got into drugs and I have quit everything indefinitely. I respect you for making that decision and wish I had earlier. I think it’s possible to do it responsibly, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to do that.
@mrsjavamama That’s what I thought at first, but I looked through her profile, and she said UNC called her and let her know and that an email would be sent out later, so her case is looking pretty weak right now.
Tbh it bugs me how some kids can be so unethical and careless with this whole thing.
@mademade Kids have done this every year. Just ignore them. It’s sad and pathetic for them to lie, but we just have to wait until a real UNC representative gives us information so we know it’s solid.
But just imagine the kind of power it gives them. With a few words they can dictate whether a few thousand students feel elation or depression.
can you imagine if they lie about stuff like this what else they lie about? won’t get them far in life…
It’s definitely messed up but it’s those types of people who have made me wary of any info that doesn’t come from an official source. It doesn’t make me feel elation or depression because I don’t believe it, and none of you should either.
If you are deferred from ANY EARLY ACTION, you are sent back to the general pool with the rest of the applicants, and will be notified by April 1st, as if you applied regular decision. That is true for Carolina as well. I would think you would have a little less of a chance, but I could be wrong. You usually do not find out about financial aid when you are accepted. Sometimes, also not till April, even if you are accepted EA, but you could always call financial aid and ask them, it might help. Best of luck!
I’m reading Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to pass the time. Within the next 48 hours my demeanor will resemble either Jekyll’s or Hyde’s.
FYI I looked back at page one of this thread because I recalled that someone went to the trouble to look up past decision dates and times. I can’t confirm (or don’t feel like double checking like Chud182 did) but supposedly it was like this: (thanks Chud for this info). So anything is possible.
1-21-11 at 12:00pm
1-19-12 at 9:30am
1-25-13 at 11:30am
1-30-14 at 3:30pm
4 years ago (minus 1 week) I was right where all of you are: checking and rechecking to see if my son had gotten in to Carolina. He was never worried and thought I was a nut. Thankfully he was correct. Every year I come back to this site to see how the “new crop” is doing (guess I’m still a nut, ha). In 2011, the UNC EA decision date was the 3rd Friday in Jan and it was around 5:00. (I’ve noticed they bumped it to this week a couple of years ago.)
The system crashed, or maybe I should say “stalled”, once the decisions had been posted and the simultaneous mass log-in commenced. My son was headed for a weekend church retreat and had to leave home while I sat at the computer and waited for the results page to load (I’ve forgotten exactly, but once things changed and we were directed to a new page, it just churned for about 30 minutes or an hour). All kids going on the retreat had to hand over their cell phones to the Youth Director once they got on the bus but I called her and asked if I could contact him through her once we got the word. They had not left the church parking lot when the Acceptance letter came up on the screen. I called her, she passed the phone back to him and I screamed “YOU GOT IN!!!”
Anyway, it was an exciting day for Mom and it will be, I’m sure, for most of you and I have my fingers crossed for you all HOWEVER the whole point of me posting this was so that you would not panic if the system churns for a while before you get your answers. That year, too, kids came on and posted that they had already received their “yes” and said things like, “If you haven’t yet, that means you’re not getting in” or, “All of you who can’t log in, that means you’ve been rejected”. Awful, but hey, some kids are just mean, don’t fall for it or let it scare you.
@NativeTarHeelian Bravo.
Just an FYI in case some of you aren’t checking the Twitter feed:
Melissa Kotacka @makunc 32m32 minutes ago
UNC19, we promise we're not trolling: if @connectcarolina says @UNCAdmissions aren't up, you don't need to login (PS it slows the system)
Someone just posted under the #UNC19 tag on twitter that he got accepted into the Honors program at UNC, and he received this acceptance through mail.
I wonder if he lives in North Carolina and got it in the mail already?