Tell me about UNC

[Anonymous]

It’s not an average school any more than any other top state flagship. You think every in state kid at Michigan is a Rhodes Scholar??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got in OOS last year. The fact that it is an avg school for in state kids and only really competitive for OOS kids was a turn off. Kid turned it down.

Mine didn't get in but was accepted OOS to UVA (attending).

UNC is a great school (from what I hear), but I wondered about attending a school where you're likely more qualified than most of your in-state peers due to their policy of favoring in-state applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got in OOS last year. The fact that it is an avg school for in state kids and only really competitive for OOS kids was a turn off. Kid turned it down.

Mine didn't get in but was accepted OOS to UVA (attending).

UNC is a great school (from what I hear), but I wondered about attending a school where you're likely more qualified than most of your in-state peers due to their policy of favoring in-state applicants.

Yes, that was my kid's concern. I'm not saying the NC applicant pool is bad...I'm saying that this concerned my kid whether it would be very obvious that most of the admitted students were admitted based on far lower stats. It was that concern that made the school unappealing.

[Anonymous]

UNC is a great school, but it doesn't have a College of Engineering. Go to Duke or NC State for that.

[Anonymous]

If your student is accepted to the honors college, that concern isn’t an issue. Bright kids, incredible campus and town. My student described it as “magical”.

[Anonymous]

15 percent of the class is from oos, but the oos acceptance rate is less than 8 percent. Not sure why posters here conflate them frequently, entirely different things.

[Anonymous]

Close to ivy hard out of state. My kid did not bother to put in an app after seeing the Naviance stats from her school.

[Anonymous]

The NC is SO overblown, they are great students. Not all UVA or UofM kids are the tippy top either as of course they have to accept kids from all over their states too. I think UNC takes it more as it’s only one state of the 3 that has a top private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your student is accepted to the honors college, that concern isn’t an issue. Bright kids, incredible campus and town. My student described it as “magical”.

Is that the honors college with a req 3.3 GPA for admission and a 3.0 overall to maintain a place there? Is it the program thay allows- space dependent- all kids to take the classes? Is it the program admitting abt 400 kids a year?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like every in state kid is barely literate and has a corn cob pipe. Is that right?

[Anonymous]

They don’t give a lot of honors spots out to freshman. You can apply once in too. Some drop as don’t like class requirements as much. It’s not a huge thing here like some schools with honors colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got in OOS last year. The fact that it is an avg school for in state kids and only really competitive for OOS kids was a turn off. Kid turned it down.

Mine didn't get in but was accepted OOS to UVA (attending).

UNC is a great school (from what I hear), but I wondered about attending a school where you're likely more qualified than most of your in-state peers due to their policy of favoring in-state applicants.

Isn’t that the case at almost all public universities?

[Anonymous]

Kind of like University of Tennessee: not too difficult to get accepted from in state, but brutally competitive for OOSers.

[Anonymous]

It's a great school, but very hard to get into undergrad from OOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like every in state kid is barely literate and has a corn cob pipe. Is that right?

No. But the top of most in state high school classes are admitted. Percentage of OOS is limited by state law, so the in state students aren't shut out.

Wish Virginia universities would do that, I ended up going to UNC for grad school.