UNC oos - what does it take?

[Anonymous]

Skip under grad ans go to UNC for grad school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OOS acceptance rate is 8%. You need a near perfect GPA and high scores.

Nope. You need luck. UNC rejected many kids who got into higher stat schools. With such a low OOS acceptance rate, you need the lottery ticket.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get the out of state appeal at all. The in state kids I know are very average.

You keep posting this on every UNC thread. Do you have a google alert for them? How many instate UNC kids do you know? And if you even know any, how do you know their stats? Troll.

[Anonymous]

Full pay oos will have big leg up this cycle as oos need aid is being cut heavily. UNC oos seems to be backup for ivy WLs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the out of state appeal at all. The in state kids I know are very average.

I have no connection to UNC, but its popularity isn’t tough to figure out: pretty campus, large but not too large enrollment, nice town, mild weather, dominates many sports other than football, great name recognition….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Skip under grad ans go to UNC for grad school.

This is what I did and I endorse this approach!

[Anonymous]

LAX star

[Anonymous]

My kid got in last cycle. Top grades from private. 35 ACT. Lots of leadership and excellent extracurriculars. Also admitted to 2 Ivies. Is attending UVA.

We went to the accepted students day at UNC and were a little turned off because it seemed very heavily female and also the programming felt less professional/more small town than accepted student days--it was primarily composed of asking panels of kids questions and it went on and on and many of the kids were not inspiring. I know I sound like a jerk saying this but it was our take-away.

Chapel Hill is awesome. My vote for the best college town and we saw a lot of college towns.

[Anonymous]

DS was accepted to the honors college. Like the PP, he was a top student at a private and was accepted to a top Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the out of state appeal at all. The in state kids I know are very average.

You keep posting this on every UNC thread. Do you have a google alert for them? How many instate UNC kids do you know? And if you even know any, how do you know their stats? Troll.

Different poster and I was gonna say the same thing. Ridiculous trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the point in trying too hard unless there is some family legacy attachment or some program that is super perfect for the kid.

I only say this because 1) the instate kids are pretty normal public school kids and 2) they are having ongoing staff and faculty conflicts due to politics.

It is a great school for the instate kids for sure but I don't understand OOS kids who trip all over themselves to get in. Seems like it is for bragging rights bc of the low OOS %.

Did you or a family member attend there?

[Anonymous]

A time machine so you can apply OOS in the 1970s.

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Anonymous wrote:Is UNC truly test optional?

The one student I know who was admitted applied test optional. Not the best academic student either. But excellent ECs. I agree with previous posters regarding luck.

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Anonymous wrote:OOS acceptance rate is 8%. You need a near perfect GPA and high scores.

So it's even lower acceptance rate than UVA OOS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You just have to be lucky. The students I know who were accepted did not have perfect scores or GPA. Nor did they have a hook. They just happened to be lucky.

Yep