Missing Items - Please Read

Earlier in the week we emailed all Deadline 1 applicants with missing items. If you received this email, please give it your prompt attention. We cannot review your application until this information has been received. To check on the status of the materials you have sent to us, please log into MyUNC and view your "To-do List. "

If your list shows any outstanding items, please arrange to send the missing material to us as soon as possible. If this material was sent to us before December 15, we apologize that we must ask you to send it to us again. Please rest assured that your application will receive a very thorough review and that space in the first-year class is still available.

School transcripts must be official copies received by mail; all other items may be emailed to Andrea Felder or faxed to (919) 966-3979. Please be sure all correspondence includes your full name, your birth date, and the deadline for which you are applying.

We appreciate your interest in us, and we look forward to reading your complete application and getting to know you. If you have any questions, please email us or contact us at (919) 966-3621.

MyUNC Updates

The system will also be down beginning Saturday, December 19 at 6 p.m. until Sunday, December 20 at - 6 a.m.

We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, or if we may help you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact us at 919-966-3621 or through email.

Application Status Updates

As we continue to log application materials during this busy time of year, we are sorry that it may take 4-5 days for us to update your MyUNC portal to indicate that we have received your application. It may also take 4-6 weeks for us to update your "To-Do" list to confirm that we have received your application materials.

We apologize for any inconvenience; please continue to check your MyUNC portal for updates on the status of your application.

Two Carolina Students Win Rhodes Scholarships

Congratulations to Carolina students Libby Longino and Henry Spelman, who today were named Rhodes Scholars. To learn more about them, click here.

Over the last 25 years, Carolina students have earned more Rhodes Scholarships than students at any other state-supported university. Over the last five years, only four schools have produced more Rhodes Scholars than UNC: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton.

We're proud of our two newest scholars--and proud to serve a school that attracts many great students who want to change the world.

Follow-Up to Early Notification Deadline Applicants

Hi all. To all of our early notification deadline applicants, again we thank you. We appreciate the time, effort, and heart that it takes to complete a college application. And we are honored that you chose to apply to us.

Please be assured that if you submitted your application by our deadline (11:59 p.m. EST on November 2 for online applications or with a postmark of November 2 for applicants using our paper application), you will receive your decision by January 31.

Because we understand that transcripts, recommendation letters, and other materials arrive separately, please know that we do not expect all of these materials to arrive here by our deadline. Over the next few weeks, if we find that we are missing any item from your application, we will be in touch with you through email to let you know.

Please continue to check your MyUNC account regularly. If you still show an item in your to-do-list 6 weeks after you know it has been sent, please contact us at (919) 966-3621 or email us. And if your email address or other contact information changes from this point forward, please update them on your MyUNC portal immediately.

For more information and important updates, please visit our Application FAQs page.

Thanks to All

I know that many of you have spent much of this weekend working on your application, and that even if you're pleased by what you've written, you may at times have felt as though you were engaged in lonely, thankless work. So I'm writing tonight, on the eve of our first deadline, to thank you for what you've done, and to promise that we will do our best to hear your voice in the words you've sent to us.

We have some work of our own to do now, and then we'll be in touch. In the meantime, please let us know if we may help you in any way.

Deadline clarification for first-year applicants

If you wish to be considered for our first deadline, your application must be submitted by November 2 at 11:59 PM EST. As long as your application is submitted by this time, the required application materials, such as your transcript and letter of recommendation, may be submitted later.

If you submit your application after November 2 at 11:59 PM EST, you will automatically be considered for our second deadline, which is January 15, 2010.