Tell me about UNC - Chapel Hill, from an out of state perspective

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line is that if any of your kids get in at UNC, OOS or in state, they should thank their lucky stars. If they decide to go elsewhere odds are they will have a great experience, too.

I guess that’s true if you live in a state with mediocre public schools

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Anonymous wrote:Do OOS legacy students have a significant edge for admission to UNC?

Yes they do (who knows if this will change.) I've seen the stats on it at some point, and OOS legacies get in at a much higher percentage than non-legacies, though still less than in-state.

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Child was a recent OOS grad at UNC. Fantastic experience. Gorgeous campus, school spirit, friendly kids and wonderful academics. Friend group was mostly other OOS students.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line is that if any of your kids get in at UNC, OOS or in state, they should thank their lucky stars. If they decide to go elsewhere odds are they will have a great experience, too.

I guess that’s true if you live in a state with mediocre public schools

You are gross.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud OOS graduate of Carolina and reading all these threads of posters going bonkers over the new USNWR rankings of UNC is hilarious. All the theories, all the discounting of why it isn’t really accurate, all the whining (but they take over 80% instate and there is no way North Carolina kids are smart, it’s because of diversity, blah blah blah).

Here’s the come to Jesus: it’s a fantastic school, with a smart, dynamic student body. You get a great education, you have a strong alumni network, excellent school spirit, and great job prospects. Sorry not sorry UVA. Y’all need to deal.

GDTBATH.

It’s much more like UVA than it is like Berkeley, UCLA, or Michigan. The lack of top engineering/no engineering at both schools sets it back a bit.

UNC doesn’t need to be like anything else than what it is. UNC. It’s not UVA, UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, etc. It (like them) stands alone.

Nice to see a reasonable response here. It’s very rare.

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line is that if any of your kids get in at UNC, OOS or in state, they should thank their lucky stars. If they decide to go elsewhere odds are they will have a great experience, too.

I guess that’s true if you live in a state with mediocre public schools

You are gross.

Why is that gross? If you live in California or Michigan, states with stellar flagships, why would being accepted into UNC over your top instate option be so great? It’s nice, but so is getting into any top 30 school.

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i am an alum and have a bunch of OOS friends and IS friends (though I got in IS) and here are some of the things they did:

in my graduating class I knew of one Rhodes and a handful of Fulbrights -- most of those were OOS.

many went to law school and now practice, often in-house somewhere. I did have one big law friend, but she only did that for 5 years before going in-house.

a few went on to get PhDs in Humanities fields, some from Ivies (Yale, Columbia)

many of the high-achieving Instate students I knew were pre-med and are now doctors. Like, a huge number. For some reason, I know more in-state kids who chose this option than OOS... maybe there is a calculation that those people made because they knew they would also have to pay for med school, so paying $4,000 per year for tuition for UNC-CH was extremely prudent.



one was a CS major and is now high up at Apple and works in Cupertino

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Anonymous wrote:i am an alum and have a bunch of OOS friends and IS friends (though I got in IS) and here are some of the things they did:

in my graduating class I knew of one Rhodes and a handful of Fulbrights -- most of those were OOS.

many went to law school and now practice, often in-house somewhere. I did have one big law friend, but she only did that for 5 years before going in-house.

a few went on to get PhDs in Humanities fields, some from Ivies (Yale, Columbia)

many of the high-achieving Instate students I knew were pre-med and are now doctors. Like, a huge number. For some reason, I know more in-state kids who chose this option than OOS... maybe there is a calculation that those people made because they knew they would also have to pay for med school, so paying $4,000 per year for tuition for UNC-CH was extremely prudent.



one was a CS major and is now high up at Apple and works in Cupertino

I was OOS state at UNC and a good friend who was also OOS went off to grad school at Stanford and then started a start up with some peers….now it’s called google. She cashed out several years ago and is living an amazing ($$$) life.

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Anonymous wrote:Child was a recent OOS grad at UNC. Fantastic experience. Gorgeous campus, school spirit, friendly kids and wonderful academics. Friend group was mostly other OOS students.

My daughter just graduated from there and was OOS too. We loved the whole experience. Everything you said above, although her friend group was mostly in state, which she liked because they were more economically diverse and she already had UMC friends from her life in DC. I think it was great for her. Plus Chapel Hill and the surrounding area is a GREAT college "town".

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University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of...mic-athletic_scandal

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_academic-athletic_scandal

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Anonymous wrote:Bottom line is that if any of your kids get in at UNC, OOS or in state, they should thank their lucky stars. If they decide to go elsewhere odds are they will have a great experience, too.

I guess that’s true if you live in a state with mediocre public schools

You are gross.

Why is that gross? If you live in California or Michigan, states with stellar flagships, why would being accepted into UNC over your top instate option be so great? It’s nice, but so is getting into any top 30 school.

I’ll answer as in-state CA. Culturally schools like UVA and UNC offer something that UC’s can’t — access to east coast preppy lifestyle. This sounds completely and embarrassingly ridiculous - I get it - but for kids on instagram, it sells.

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I wish the academic scandal poster would stop. That was overa decade ago and while terrible, no doubt this happened at other schools too. UNC has learned and leaned in and moved on. It is a terrific place, check it out yourself.