I got the email; it says, “Although we don’t know exactly when we’ll be able to release all early-action decisions, we know that we won’t be able to release them today or tomorrow.”
Everybody calm down.
Taylor- I believe we live in your state. My daughter graduated #1 with high scores and an outstanding resume. Her GC had no idea whether or not she would get in. Our HS had 4 acceptances since 2012. Nobody knows how UNC chooses its students… and we can’t pretend to know. How do you know that they are looking for well rounded students? You don’t know what their decisions are based on- all you can do is put together the best application possible and craft a good list.
Everybody here will know soon enough. No amount of speculation will change anything. Good luck Taylor- I hope you get in!!
Ironic how you’re calming our anxiety, anxiouswreck haha it is much appreciated @anxiouswreck
@musicandscience Haha, didn’t even think about that! Honestly I used to be really stressed out about college and decisions, but I find that accepting that I did everything I can and preparing myself for the worst really helps me chill out and work on other, more productive things. The only reason I keep hopping back to this thread is because I made it so every time someone says something, I get a notification!! :))
@Taylorwicks: Yes, I remember some of these responses. And in none of them – with the exception of the poster who mentioned not being a legacy – do the posters provide any information about status-based admissions factors that could apply to them. You cannot infer that such factors did not exist, based simply on the fact that the posters did not mention them.
No one denies that standardized tests and GPAs are not the exclusive factors used in the admissions calculus; just look at Part C7 of the Common Dats Set. It is the application of other, non-objective factors that produces the statistical outliers that you see in the CDS (using a half-bell-shaped distribution curve as an analogy). But if having great essays, or amazing ECs, were the admissions panacea that some seem to think they are, then you would expect to see the percentages of successful applicants (actually, the enrolled students as reflected in the CDS) more evenly distributed across the various cohorts of ACT/SAT/GPA ranges in the CDS; and you don’t. The enrolled students – and by extrapolation, the successful applicants – are clustered into higher ranges of the GPAs and the ACT/SAT scores. When you have statistical outliers such as an accepted OOS applicant with a 26 ACT and 3.5 weighted GPA, then there are definitely other factors at work; but just perhaps not the ones attributed (or wished) by such applicants.
Some people have gotten it in their spam before too so check there. But I also know some people in past years have gotten it at different times
Ahahaha well it’s great to hear you have a handle on your stress. We could all learn a thing or two from you 
@anxiouswreck
I applied EA. I rarely get emails from them. Should i be worried???
I’ve been on a break from College Confidential, but I just wanted to pop in to this thread to say that I am confident that every one of you will end up doing great things at a great school, no matter what UNC says. I totally get the anxiety – Chapel Hill is my dream school, too, and I am definitely feeling a lot of pressure about getting in and not disappointing my mom since she went there. But I promise you all that everything is going to turn out alright, regardless of the decision UNC makes in the days to come. The college admissions process is more competitive now than ever, and it can be a complete crapshoot at times. What one school decides about you does NOT determine your worth as a person or a student. Please take care of yourselves. We’ll get through this!
@Is2018 thank you i needed that. but still wondering why unc rarely emails me
@aviyoung30 It could be for any of a multitude of reasons, but if it’s any reassurance, they don’t email me much either. I actually don’t know anyone who they’ve emailed very often – I get just as many emails as my friends and classmates who have applied as well. Try not to worry too much about it if you can. In my experience, emails don’t usually mean much in terms of your final admissions decision.
@gandalf78 Im trying to bring some hope and positivity to the thread of thise that are feeling down about there decision.
Got it Thank you so much @Is2018
Also, as a general update – I just received the “We don’t know when admissions decisions will come out” email from UNC at 5:59 PM. So it appears that they’re rolling the emails out over time, which means don’t worry if you haven’t gotten yours yet!
Got the email with the similar message about the decisions…
@Is2018 we received the same email at 4:22pm.
Just got the “today or tomorrow” email at 3:18pm (I’m west coast) so if you haven’t gotten it yet to be stressed they are coming out staggered.
Yeah I got it at 6:16pm EST
Thanks @unc for a mini heart attack
Taylor… Gandalf78 is trying to bring some reality to the situation. The bottom line is that for the most part, OOS students with relatively low scores and grades will not be admitted as readily as those with higher scores and grades… unless there are other things such as legacy URM etc. That’s reality… and it was discussed at orientation ( they discussed rank). Are there exceptions to this? Yes of course there are… and that holds true for every school. A few years ago a student from our HS was accepted to Rice with an ACT of 21. Not a legacy, not an athlete. That acceptance was the exception and not the rule… there was obviously something else going on in that students application.
OOS acceptance is at 18%… it’s going to be a reach even for top students with strong resumes.
Hopefully you get in… good luck!