Did anyone get a financial aid notification that says it is ready to view? It says you have to create an Onyen to see it. Do these ever include merit, or is this just financial aid? I don’t think my son got either.
So, not to get folks revved up on something that is >3 years or so away, and many who won’t be evaluating Grad/Prof school options - but the Law School version of the Common Ap – LSAC (Law School Admissions Council) does GPA re-calibrations for their own scale to submit to schools.
So as it appears on the transcripts to them an “A” is 4.00, an “A+” is converted to a 4.33, and an"A-" is converted to a 3.67 etc. Generally this is going to follow how the school reports grades on the transcript if all 90-100 at equal “A” then I believe it’s a 4.0 regardless.
At least there is one unified system to do this, if an individual law school chooses to reevaluate / recalculate grades after that then it would have the original institutions GPA, LSAC re-calculation standard and then their own individual GPA scoring which would seem to be a lot of GPAs to try to parse out.
I was finally able to access ours this morning (it took overnight for the right tiles to show up). Ours was only financial aid. Did not indicate any merit aid. So either we didn’t get any, or it wasn’t included with this.
All CDS say 4.0, but you can tell if they use weighted by how they report the average gpa. UNC clearly reports a weighted gpa in it. Trust me when I say 97% of kids did not have straight As in high school going to UNC. Your school just misinterpreted it, which isn’t surprising because it’s not very clear. That said, UNC wants a very high weighted and unweighted GPA and definitely looks at how how many Bs a person got when considering admission. My child viewed their admissions file and the number of Bs was stated as one of very few comments made. I don’t think they take students who have gotten Cs (or pretty much never do).
Current students just received their aid letters yesterday, so they may be coming soon.
Merit is included with the admissions letter. Almost no one gets it.
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Yeah same for us. Went through the whole process to set everything up and was able to view the financial aid package - federal loans and that was it. Wish there was a way to view it without creating a whole account. Anywhoo, not a top choice for my son so we’ll probably be moving on at this point which is a bit of a bummer because we could have had siblings at the same school but he will find his spot where he’s meant to be. Wishing everyone’s kiddos the best as they move on in the process!
Chances for getting into UNC Chapel Hill - Applied EA
Instate
3.93 unweighted
4.62 weighted
7APs 5DE total
2Bs in sophomore year
Fall 2026 entry – In State EA was released Dec 15th.
Are you talking about a future application?
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Correct- “If” applied EA for 2027 cycle
What county?
So will the AP/DE number of 7 be your total for all four years?
What will your class rank be (%)? Top 10? Top 25?
Test Scores or Test optional?
ExtraCurriculars: Anything Awardwise National or Statewide?
Volunteerism, Community Service, Leadership etc?
Look at the UNC CH Common Data Set and find teh section where they list how much weight (or not) they put on things like GPA, Class Rigor, Class Rank, Test Scores, work etc
Wake county, class rank might not be top 10%, may be top 15%.
SAT - 1520 (superscored)
Awards: FBLA states winner in 9th grade , competed but didnt win any yet
Extra curricular:
REX hospital volunteer since 9th grade summer.
10+ years girl scouts - Silver award and Gold award (in progress)
Swimming -year around until 10th, High school varsity swimmer-since 9th grade,k paid swim coach over summer for 3 years
Violin player in Orchestra since middle school.
Her couselor says it UNC chapel will be a target school for her as she is in-state. But I am skeptical.
Dilemma is to whether increase GPA and apply Regular cycle or do EA
SAT is not a measure of intelligence and there are other means to measure knowledge including AP exams. Yes, there needs to be some standardized measure of knowledge
It’s getting a little late to do a lot about Class rank before next fall submissions - but I’d recommend doing what you can to get her / keep her class rank in top 10% .
That SAT score is solid too bad it’s just ‘considered’ at UNC
In Wake County, her stats and ECs will make her 1 of 2000 very similar applicants from Wake.
I think she’s going to fall into that 30-35% chance range, little better if she’s top 10% and can post a leadership (Captain, Club President) role maybe + 10-15% (that makes it ‘target’), a little less if she’s top 25%with no leadership roles -10-15% (that makes it ‘Reach’).
Check out the Common Data Set info:
and go surfing here;
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Strong chances, but stronger if they submit a high test score! Essays are important, so make sure they are strong and say something different than the application and activities.
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Data suggests otherwise. 75% who submit a score get in and 25-30% who are test optional get in (in state). They may have it marked as considered, but submitting a score seems to really help.
Will they be captain? UNC seems to love team captains. Our past 5 swim team captains have all been accepted. (All great students, too, but I have heard UNC loves team captains.)
Or…students who choose to submit scores are much stronger students.
unfortunately no - not a strong swimmer since surgery . But a paid swim coach - not sure if that counts