UNC Class of 2020 EA Discussion Thread

just want to know whether anyone has received email about scholarship day or excel@carolina. My son received one email this afternoon. it is just about “explore carolina”.

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@buglyfe19
“1 B from ninth grade painting is tainting my transcript”
Hahah, I know your pain, that B in Masonry from freshman year still haunts me to this day

anyone know when we will hear about scholarship day, excel carolina, or honors carolina?

@mutiyo @karlmarx2020 @plswantmepls I remember reading on the website that we’ll get an email within a week!

sure someone kind enough will post here when excel carolina email goes out

Accepted with full ride (OOS, Carolina Scholarship)

How did you learn about the scholarship @Snpdrgn

I’m not sure when Excel@Carolina invitations will be sent out this year, but when my sister was accepted in 2014, she was accepted as an OOS on 1/30 and received an Excel@Carolina invitation on 2/4.

@graceann I received an email notifying me about the scholarship around an hour ago

@Snpdrgn Wow! Congratulations! I suspect that UNC scholarships are super hard to get.

My application is still under review :frowning:

got the tar heel merit scholarship (in state). anyone heard about honors or excel? or the chancellor’s science scholarship?

@globalgirl3 Accepted just means that you may consider they school as a prospective place you’ll attended. Because UNC is Early-Action, it is non-binding and you may still choose to enroll in a different school. If UNC were Early Decision, which it is not, then you would have to withdraw all other applications to your other schools and commit to attending UNC.

So are all the scholarship invitations sent out? Or are just a few people hearing back?

I don’t think the general invites to scholarship day have been sent yet, but I am not 100% sure. Someone said, “I got in to UNC with a full ride,” but that seems unlikely because no one gets those type of scholarships without interviewing for them. We should see the notification in a few days. Some specific scholarships have been released though, I think.

Deferred :expressionless:
Out of State
3.52 cum w/ lots of extra curriculars and leadership positions

Decision: Accepted!! Out of state, California

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
ACT: 32 composite… best of each section: (34 english, 28 math, 35 reading, 33 science)
SAT II: didn’t take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.53 (strong upward trajectory, senior fall grades were a 4.0 for the semester)
Weighted GPA: 4.21
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school does not rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP english Lang (5), AP Psych (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Economics (micro and macro), AP statistics, Post-AP english 4 honors, biology, ceramics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Commendation in history (awarded to top 5 students in my class for the subject)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Soccer, Varsity Lacrosse, Aviation (getting my pilot’s license), History club (VP) Model UN club (head), Dorm prefect, indoor committee (head),
Job/Work Experience: multiple paid internships plus part time job
Volunteer/Community service: none
Essays: common app truly showed who I am, amazing supplement essay (chose the tedtalk prompt)
Teacher Recommendation: history teacher: amazing, Math teacher: great
Counselor Rec: my counselor was also my ap psych teacher, she loves me
Additional Rec: N/A
State: California
School Type: Very selective and rigorous boarding school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nothing i can think of

denied OOS

SAT I (breakdown): 800 (reading), 740 (math), 710 (writing
ACT: 34 composite - best of each section: (35 english, 32 math, 36 reading, 32 science, 31 writing)
SAT II: 800 (Bio-M)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10 ppl out of 277
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Bio (5), APUSH (5)
Senior Year Course Load: Comp & Lit honors, Physics honors, AP Calc AB, Anatomy honors, spanish5 honors, AP Chem, Social Justice, World Religions
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Brown University Book Award

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Swimming all four years (captain), Tutoring program, art club, hip hop club
Job/Work Experience: part time receptionist
Volunteer/Community service: over 200 hrs
State: MA
School Type: Competitive private school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Female

@HenryK I received an email yesterday about the Carolina Scholarship, which is a full ride to UNC Chapell Hill for four years.

The email stated, “Congratulations! You have earned a Carolina Scholarship, which will cover charges for tuition, fees, on-campus room and board for four years of undergraduate study at UNC – Chapel Hill. In addition to this funding, you will have access to all of the resources and opportunities of the UNC Scholars Program.”

In addition, the scholarship dinner invite came out this morning too.