Maybe, but I wouldn’t read too much into it until you get the “How to View Your Decision” email. That’s the surest sign of decisions being posted the next day.
Last year, the summary of application numbers was published on Jan. 28, the same day decisions were released, but I agree with @DevilStick that the e-mail and blog post about how to view your decision are the best indicators, and they typically occur 1 day before decisions. Good luck, everyone!
where can the blog be found you referenced, wstrav?
@vcq7890 my friend was nominated and was a finalist, ended up getting deferred EA and waitlisted before being rejected
@tydunham are you serious? Any reason he/she can figure out? Did something happen during the process? Very strange.
@tydunham I find that hard to believe. I’m not questioning your credibility but perhaps you’re misinformed. It is extremely difficult to even become a semifinalist, and many of their merit scholarships (keep in mind: only around 130 total merit scholarships to go around) go to these semifinalists. Basically, if you are a semifinalist, you’re getting in. I don’t see a way that a finalist would get waitlisted and/or rejected unless some kind of criminal charge or receiving all failing grades their senior year.
I know is sounds unbelievable. But my daughters senior year the person that was nominated did not get in either. Just goes to prove how holistic the process truly is at UNC.
@tzglass Well, getting nominated and being a semifinalist/finalist are two completely different things. Getting nominated is something that usually happens within your given school. I was one of two of my school’s nominees. I wasn’t selected to be a semifinalist. Now while I have pretty good stats and I am optimistic about being accepted (in-state), I know I don’t hold a candle to the semifinalists and finalists for the scholarship. I know it’s not the admissions office, but I know semifinalists/finalists are selected by something affiliated with UNC, so that’s a whole different ballgame, because the process to apply for the Morehead-Cain is rather holistic as well.
My point is, I wouldn’t have been shocked if it was a nominee who didn’t get in, because depending on that individual’s specific school and the competition within it, the stats may simply not have been that good (accompanied by the holistic approach indicating that maybe the essays and ECs were subpar as well). But a semifinalist/finalist who is literally handpicked by UNC for their most prestigious scholarship getting waitlisted and then rejected? I don’t think that’s true.
Well my daughter was not the nominee and did get in UNC that year, so what her counselors saw and thought were not exactly what admissions saw…so while being a semi-finalist is fantastic, it may be a different group handling the process all together.
@tzglass That’s what I’m saying. Being a nominee is something that the specific high school handles and being a semifinalist/finalist is something that UNC handles. So the individual who was nominated at your daughter’s school (assuming he was not chosen to be a semifinalist or a finalist, but only the high school’s nominee) did not have any standing with UNC because they did not choose him to be a semifinalist or a finalist.
He could have still gotten in of course, but that probably has more to do with his application than anything else. That is why your daughter got in and he didn’t. The school thought he was the better candidate, UNC thought your daughter was. In this case, UNC’s opinion matters more, which is why being a nominee doesn’t guarantee anything, but being a semifinalist or a finalist somewhat does because they are selected by UNC.
I read the blog post about how there 40000 total applicants, but was there some sort of email sent out yet about how to view decision? I’m confused if the email that everyone talking about is for Excel, because I didn’t get any email about how to view the decision yet
@musical99 No email to view the decision has been sent yet.
I haven’t received an email from them since early December when they sent out their season’s greetings one.
The UNC Admissions blog has not been updated yet to include instructions to view decisions. Typically, it is updated with the instructions one day before decisions are released.
Here is the blog: http://admissions.unc.edu/admissions-blog/ Nothing of interest on there now.
With regard to the Morehead-Cain scholarship, semifinalist & finalist decisions are not made by UNC; they are made by the independent Morehead-Cain Foundation. So, it is conceivable that someone could be an M-C finalist, but not accepted to UNC. I imagine this would be extraordinarily rare.
For me, these last few days are the hardest to wait. Out of curiosity, does any one know why UNC witholds the decisions if they have already made them? Do they still have applications that they need this time for? Wishing everyone the best of luck!
@dukebasketball777 well I’m sure it’s difficult to send out all those decisions through there portal without tech issues so it prob takes them a while to do that. Also they release decisions all together and it prob does take four months to go though all those applications so I wouldn’t really say they’re withholding decisions.
@wstrav wait where is it on the blog? It is not showing up on mine!
@wstrav Oh my goodness sorry I totally misread that!!
Any advice? My daughter was accepted to Michigan EA in Engineering, and hopes to hear from UNC this week as a Mathematical Decision Sciences major. She is torn between Engineering and Actuarial Science. I hate to be presumptuous that she will even get in to UNC as we are oos, but curious if anyone has any thoughts between the two schools???
Congrats on your daughter’s acceptance to umich engineering! Umich is better than unc in engineering (umich is like top 10 in engineering) and its actuarial math is also very good in the top 15 or top 10 in the country. So umich is better than unc in math and engineering but unc is cheaper out of state @Sparty82