First-Year Admitted Student Checklist
Welcome new Tar Heels! Ready to accept your spot?
While You’re Deciding
Celebrate
- Get to know your new classmates through special experiences created just for you.
Stay Up-To-Date On Financial Aid
After a series of delays with the FAFSA, we’re now able to receive students’ FAFSA information and move forward with aid offers. If you haven’t already:
- Apply for financial aid. We use the FAFSA and CSS Profile to determine full financial aid eligibility.
- Set up your official UNC username and email so that you’ll be able to view your financial aid offer and stay in touch with us to receive important updates.
- Once you receive email notification of your financial aid offer, log into ConnectCarolina. Click the Student Center tile and navigate to “View Financial Aid Offer.”
Share Important Details
- We need your accurate Social Security Number (SSN). If you didn’t provide it on your application, please share it with us in your ConnectCarolina Student Center.
- Sometimes we need more information to complete your financial aid offer. If we do, we’ll note this in your ConnectCarolina To-Do List, so check there regularly.
Enroll
- Enroll by May 1 in MyCarolina — you’ll officially be a Tar Heel once you accept your offer of admission and pay your $250 non-refundable deposit.
- If you’re an international student, we strongly encourage you to enroll by May 1. Look out for information from International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) and be sure to log into the ISSS portal to upload any required documents.
After You Enroll
I was in a Jersey Mikes when I read my acceptance letter, and I got so excited that I started to cry over my BLT.
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- Complete Required NCAA Form (Student-Athletes Only). To participate in NCAA athletics at Carolina, this step is required. You can access these forms in your enrollment checklist in MyCarolina.
- Set up your PIN. To help protect your privacy, you’ll set up a unique number that helps you connect with offices across campus.
- Honor code. If you’ve had any school-based disciplinary incidents or criminal charges, excluding any that have been expunged, since applying for admission, email us at unchelp@admissions.unc.edu.
- Academic Preparation
- Test scores. If you’d like college credit by exam, send us your official scores via the respective testing service ASAP. See if your scores qualify for credit.
- Math placement. Students who do not have traditional means of placement such as ACT, AP, or transfer credit from another college or University are advised to take the optional math placement test to gain placement into math courses at Carolina.
- Language placement. Carolina students take courses through at least level 3 in one or more of the 28 languages taught at Chapel Hill. Explore how studying language propels students into future studies and careers, and how to place into the appropriate level of the language(s) you’re interested in taking.
- Review your credit. Once you receive your credit evaluation from our office, use the Tar Heel Tracker to see how your credits fulfill requirements for Carolina’s IDEAs in Action curriculum.
- Prepare to Register for Fall Classes. You’ll begin to register for classes during your assigned registration appointment on July 8, 15, 22, or 29. You’ll receive your exact date when you register for orientation. Choose the orientation date that works best for you as all registration appointments, regardless of date, will provide you with an equitable opportunity to register for classes. You can make additional changes to your fall schedule starting August 2 during First-Year Open Enrollment and through the second week of classes.
- Review the 2024 First-Year Registration Roadmap.
- Join the UNC Advising – Class of 2028 Canvas site. Three weeks before your orientation session, you’ll receive an email from New Student and Family Programs with an invitation to join the Canvas site. This email will be sent to your UNC email address.
- Schedule your Virtual One-on-One Advising Appointment. You’ll find more details in the UNC Advising – Class of 2028 Canvas site.
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- Register for orientation*. The deadline to register has been extended to May 19. Orientation is required for all new students.
- Order your laptop. You’ll be required to have a laptop and can order one through the Carolina Computing Initiative.
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- Help us pre-register you for classes that interest you by completing your First-Year Pre-Registration Survey.
- The pre-registration survey for fall 2024 has now closed. Students who were unable to complete the survey prior to the close date will still be, depending on seat availability, pre-registered into a section of a required Fall 2024 First-Year Foundations course. Be on the lookout for an email three weeks prior to your orientation session to schedule a meeting with an academic advisor to discuss your fall class schedule planning.
- Apply for housing. All first-year students will live on campus. If you have a disability or medical condition, you may request an accommodation through the Office of Accessibility Resources and Service.
- Help us pre-register you for classes that interest you by completing your First-Year Pre-Registration Survey.
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- Submit your immunization and health history forms to UNC Campus Health.
- Review the Cashier’s website for important information on billing, creating proxy access to your account for parents or family members, and setting up payment plans. Please note that your bill for the fall semester will be available in ConnectCarolina in mid-July with payment due in mid-August.
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- Provide official copies of your final high school transcript and transcripts for any college coursework. View instructions in MyCarolina.
- If you have completed any college coursework at universities outside of the United States, provide a World Education Services (WES) course-by-course transcript evaluation of this work.
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- Waive or enroll in UNC student health insurance.
- Sign up for your optional meal plan.
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