UNC Class of 2021 EA

@vcq7890 Here are the bios from last year’s winners:
http://www.moreheadcain.org/news-announcement/class-of-2020/

@snorkelmom lol I’m just happy I was nominated. I know for a fact I don’t have the stats to win or be a finalist so I’m not expecting anything.

Also I’m not sure how many people were nominated, I was also wondering the same thing.

no one from California :((

@vcq7890, I was unable to find any recent stats, but in the 2013-14 year, there was 98 students referred to Morehead Cain by Admissions, and 15 of those became semifinalists. There were 399 total semifinalists. I suspect that those numbers have changed a bit over the years, but the number that doesn’t seem to change is that a total of 126 are named finalists. Last year 65 received the scholarship. The number of scholarship recipients has been trending upward.

And, yes, if you have been referred by Admissions and become a semifinalist, you have definitely been accepted. Good luck.

anyone here from the south florida area or applying for a journalism major at UNC EA?

@wstrav Thanks for the info! I don’t think Im a semifinalist, I only got an email saying I was nominated by ARP. Someone else said it likely mean I’m in. If your an ARP nominee but not yet a semifinalist, does that likely mean I’m in?

I would think so, but I have no inside information. To me, it wouldn’t make sense for Admissions to nominate you for their highest scholarship if they did not intend to admit you.

Hi everyone! I applied OOS from Alabama. 33 ACT and a 4.3 GPA. I’m trying not to get my hopes up about UNC but can anyone tell me my chances?

@Libby104: I think that you are a little low in both test score and GPA. If you are a URM, or a legacy, or a D-1 athlete, then that may change things. For further details, look at my comments on the matter here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-north-carolina-chapel-hill/1943888-chance-an-oos-applicant.html#latest

Last year’s entering freshman class had a 15% acceptance rate: http://admissions.unc.edu/apply/class-profile-2/.

Of course, admissions decisions are always a bit of a crap shoot.

I’m not sure the answers to these questions are knowable, but here goes: (1) Since UNC-CH gives EA answers at the end of January, at least some percentage of the applicant pool will have pulled out due to being accepted ED at other schools. Is there any way to estimate what percentage of kids do ED generally so as to estimate that number for UNC-CH?(2) Next, does that 15% acceptance rate for OOS pertain to all applicants who submit by the 10/15 deadline or just the remaining applicant pool after ED kids withdraw? If the answer to question 1 is a significant number and the answer to number 2 is “all applicants,” then maybe there’s an actual higher rate of acceptance for those who did not do ED elsewhere. Looking for reasons to be hopeful. Thoughts?

Amending that question (1) to be percentage of applicants generally who are accepted ED at a school so withdraw applications elsewhere. That’s the more precise way to look at it. Thx.

@freethrow224: The link to the Admissions Office merely states that admissions were “26% of all students applying; 49% of NC applicants; 15% of out-of-state applicants”. So I presume that the final admission percentages were based on the total numbers of all students who applied, both EA and RD – probably the AO takes the total number of OOS admittees (both EA and RD) divided by the total number of OOS applicants (both EA and RD), and that’s how the 15% number was determined. (Not only is that the easiest way to work the numbers, but it would make the overall admission percentages smaller and thus appear more “elite”.) Of course the AO would know how many of the EA applicants withdrew their applications after being accepted ED to other institutions, but I have no idea whether this would be a number that is large enough to change the overall 15% OOS admission rate significantly (or at all).

FWIW - Michigan had 32,000 EA applicants this year. Seems like every desirable school has more applicants every year and keeps getting harder and harder to get in to. Sigh.

I definitely feel like a lot less in state students applied EA this year so it could be an advantage for OOS

@barney112 Unfortunately for out-of-staters no less than 82% of the incoming class are in-state applicants. So even if the total number of in-state applicants goes down, it really only benefits other in-state students.

@barney112 Curious - Why do you feel a lot less in state students applied EA this year??? I’m an in state EA applicant myself.

The Admissions Office data provides enough info to determine the number of IS and OOS applicants from last year’s pool as you can construct two equations with two unknowns based on the data they provide (specifically IS + OOS = 35,875 and .49IS + .15OOS = 9,386). That gives you 11,779 IS applicants and 24,097 OOS applicants. So, of the 9,386 who were admitted, 3,615 were OOS, of which 759 enrolled (18% of the class).

Did anyone apply to the Robertson Scholars Program for UNC or Duke? I was just curious if those came out yet?

@Sandy12345 I applied, and I have not received any information back.

@biologylover Phew! Okay thanks so much!