Carolina Offers Admission to 5,100 First-Deadline Candidates

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has offered admission to the fall 2011 entering class to 5,104 candidates who applied by the first of two admission deadlines. The admitted students were chosen from a record first-deadline pool of 14,018 – an increase of 7 percent over last year.

"The students we’ve admitted are terrific, and we’re honored by their interest in Carolina,” said Stephen Farmer, associate provost and director of undergraduate admissions. “It was a privilege for us to get to know these students through their applications – to learn about their achievements and to dream about their potential. We think these students will do great things here at Carolina and far beyond. We look forward to welcoming them next fall.”

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First-Deadline Decisions are Available

Thank you all for your patience throughout the past couple days. We have now successfully posted decisions online, but please be aware that there is very heavy traffic on MyUNC this afternoon, so you may experience some delays. Please refer to our previous post for instructions on viewing your decision, and do remember to disable your pop-up blocker as your decision letter will open in a new window.

Please know that we are honored by each of the applications we receive, and we do our best to honor each of you in return with a thorough and thoughtful review. We have to make many difficult decisions, and we have to turn away a lot of smart, talented students who we know could be successful here.

Thanks all. We will continue to monitor MyUNC over the weekend, and keep you up-to-date if any issues arise.

First-Deadline Decisions

Good morning all! We know how anxious many of you are, and we wanted to post a short note to let you know that we are still on schedule to release decisions today, though you should not expect them until this afternoon. We appreciate your patience!

Update on First-Deadline Decisions

We write to let you know that we're on schedule to post decisions tomorrow for our first-deadline candidates whose applications are complete. We're very sorry, but unfortunately, we do not know what time decisions will be posted. Letters are also scheduled to mail tomorrow.

Below are the steps to view your decision when it's available:

1. Log into MyUNC.
2. Under “AS Bachelor, 2011 Fall," select “View Official Test Scores, Outstanding Items, and Application Status.”Your Student Center will appear. Under Admissions, select “Click here to view your decision."
3. In order to view your decision, please note that, if applicable, the pop-up blocker feature on your computer must be disabled.

Internet Explorer

1. In the menu bar, go to Tools and navigate down to “Pop-up Blocker Settings.”
2. Click on “Turn-Off Pop-up Blocker.”

Google Toolbar

1. Click the Google Pop-up Blocker toolbar icon.
2. The Pop-up Blocker icon should read “Popups are okay.”

Mozilla Firefox

1. In the menu bar, go to Tools and navigate down to Options.
2. Select “Content” tab or icon.
3. Uncheck box labeled “Block pop-up windows.”

AOL

1. Click on “Blocking Pop-ups” at the bottom right corner of the AOL window.
2. Uncheck box labeled “Suppress pop-ups from websites I visit.”
3. Click “Save” button.

Yahoo Toolbar

1. Click on the Yahoo Toolbar's popup blocker icon option arrow. This arrow is pointing down beside of the popup blocker icon.
2. Click on “Enable Pop-up Blocker” to uncheck.

Chrome

1. To allow blocked pop-ups when you're already on a site, follow these steps:
2. Click the “Pop-ups Blocked” alert at the bottom right-hand corner of the browser tab.
3. Select the pop-up that you'd like to allow.
4. If you'd like, select “Always show pop-ups” from (site).

If you're using Google Chrome Beta for Windows, the site is added to the exceptions list, which you can manage in the Content Settings dialog (go to Tools menu > Options > Under the Hood to open the dialog box).

If you're using Google Chrome Beta for Windows, you can also disable the pop-up blocker completely. Follow these steps:

1. Click the “Tools” menu
2. Select “Options."
3. Click the “Under the Hood” tab.
4. Click Content settings in the "Privacy" section.
5. Click the “Pop-ups” tab.
6. Select "Allow all sites to show pop-ups." You can make exceptions for specific websites by clicking Exceptions.
7. Click “Close” to save your setting.

Safari

1. Open the Safari menu and select the “Preferences” option.
2. In the window that displays, click on the “Security” option.
3. Remove the checkmark from the “Block pop-up” windows option.
4. Close the window.

Or, for an older version of Safari, try

1. Open Safari
2. Click on the Safari Menu
3. Uncheck “Block Pop-Up Windows”

Thank you for your interest in Carolina. For the latest information from our office, please continue to visit this blog.

Update on First-Deadline Decisions

With nine days to go before our first notification date, we write to thank all of the 14,000 first-deadline candidates who honored Carolina by applying for admission. Over the last three months, as we’ve read your applications one by one and over and over again, we’ve been steadily impressed by your achievements and your potential. We have also been humbled by your patience. You have borne this long wait with grace and good humor, and we are grateful.

We expect to finish on time our evaluations of first-deadline candidates whose applications are complete. If you applied first deadline and your application is complete, we plan to post your decision on MyUNC on or around January 21, 2011. We expect letters to arrive by mail at around the same time or shortly thereafter.

For further updates, including detailed instructions about how you may view your decision when it is available through MyUNC, please visit this blog again next week. If you wish to be notified whenever we update the blog, please subscribe by entering your email address at right.

Again, thanks to all who’ve applied – not only for your interest, but also for your patience.

-- Stephen Farmer

Final Deadline is One Week Away

If you’ve applied already, we thank you for your interest in us. If you haven’t yet submitted your application, we’d like to remind you that our final application deadline is next Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (10:59 p.m. Central Time, 9:59 p.m. Mountain Time, or 8:59 p.m. Pacific Time).

If you're unable to apply by January 18, you're welcome to submit an application by January 31 to be considered on a space-available basis.

Carolina Named Best Value Again by Kiplinger's

Today we're honored to announce that the February 2011 edition of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine has named Carolina first among the nation's public colleges and universities for delivering an outstanding education at an affordable price. This is the tenth consecutive time that Carolina has earned this honor since the national magazine first began this special edition in 1998.

Read the online article and learn more about how current student Jerry Bowens made his way to Carolina through the help of the Carolina College Advising Corps.