Thoughts on UNC?

[Anonymous]

What they did with the basketball and football teams should have given a death penalty to their entire athletic department and they should lose their academic accreditation.

UNC is a joke. Another Tailgate State where fat cat boomers exploit functional illiterate athletes like slaves with no regard for the academic reputation of the school or safety of real students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What they did with the basketball and football teams should have given a death penalty to their entire athletic department and they should lose their academic accreditation.

UNC is a joke. Another Tailgate State where fat cat boomers exploit functional illiterate athletes like slaves with no regard for the academic reputation of the school or safety of real students.

Let's face it. When you're dealing with big time football and basketball; you're dealing with a huge percentage of dummies, for the most part. The reputation of the team is more important than the school ... Duuuurrrr Duuuuhhh Duuurrr. That's how you end up with a+ term papers the begin with " On the evening of December , Rosa Parks back of bus and police said 'No!'." Even the coaches are huge dummies. That's how you have grown men that don't know what to do when they encounter a fellow coach ass raping a minor in the showers. Decade after decade of accommodating hundreds of men with the minds and emotional development of elementary schoolers on campus grinds down the educational focus and leaves a muddled and watered down institution

[Anonymous]

I visited with my son. Loved it. Very strong business school. Down to earth student body. My DS went elsewhere because of money but we were most impressed with UNC.

[Anonymous]

I feel sorry for the other schools in the Acc that get all excited and put in tons of sweat and blood into their decades of sports seasons while the whole time UNC was horrendously cheating to get a major edge. I remember Gary Williams getting bad press because players weren't graduating and some were academically ineligible since he did things the right way and the players were expected to do academic work. Meanwhile Unc is graduating illiterates with virtually no academic effort on the part of the school or the players and getting great press for graduating players. It's impossible to recruit against or play against. I would think the other schools in the conference would be owed tremendous financial and punitive damages from Unc for decades of wasted effort and hopes of players and coaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alum here with a cousin who is a current student. Here are my cliff notes on the school.

1) nice larger school with diverse student population (both racially and socioeconomically)
2) liberal and accepting environment, not super preppy or stuffy
3) has a Greek system but it isn't overwhelming or very large considering the size of the school (vs for comparison UVA which has a much larger percentage of the students pledging). Hence frat parties are not the center of the social life
4) sports are big, especially football, soccer and basketball and the students like going to the games. It's a big part of he culture, watching or attending games with your friends is very fun. I loved going to the basketball games and we won a championship when I was there. It was so fun. There is a lot of school pride which is nice.
5) beautiful campus and nice town, nice weather, nice people
6) size of the school allows for many opportunities for different areas of studies, study abroad, internships, on campus jobs, clubs, programs, cultural events, etc.

There is a reason James Taylor wrote a song about Chapel Hill....

NP, alum here as well. Graduated almost 20 years ago and this describes my experience as well.

The one concern I would note is that for students used to smaller class sizes, it might be a daunting and fairly steep learning curve to do well in those huge auditorium-style freshman classes. I know I struggled to pay attention and that was before the days of laptops and cell phones in class. I can't imagine trying to learn in that kind of environment today.

Another alum here. And OOS - originally from SF Bay Area and now live in DC. I agree with these previous posters. Knew no one when I arrived on campus and left after 4 years with some of my closest friends. In my personal experience, I found the academics competitive in the Journalism school and it has a very active alumnae network in the DC area. Several of my OOS friends were Morehead scholars - this may be an option if you're concerned about being academically challenged. I'm not a huge sports fan (yes, there are some kids that go there primarily for sports) but it's a fun part of the college experience in addition to the academics. And I did end up joining a sorority, but I loved that it wasn't a huge greek school and I could have lots of friends outside the greek system as well. I definitely look back on my time at Carolina fondly.

[Anonymous]

How can a institution that systematically cheats for decades be trusted? The school is still denying in order to avoid consequences. These are really bad people with no integrity .

[Anonymous]

Most UNC people are too stupid to figure out what's wrong with graduating illiterates.

Doesn't say much for the level of education at the school.

[Anonymous]

My child is a current UNC student and loves it, with experience closely tied to what has been mentioned
by the alums. UNC has provided my child a wonderful balance of excellent academics, school spirit, a beautiful
campus, good weather, fun clubs and above alll great peers, both OOS and instate.

Child's friends are caring and helpful, most everyone is involved with some kind of service activity.

Just yesterday child reported that this semester was going very well. Classes are interesting, challenging and relevant.

OP, we would highly recommend a visit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A good, albeit slightly weird school.

I don't think the kids are weird. They are the same top of their class go to Flagship U students that go to UVA. Although, probably less impressive, because UNC is not fishing from a NOVA type talent pool. And half of all instate students who apply are admitted (vs 15% OOS).

But, the NC legislature is pushing its super conservative social agenda on the school. And that is not doing UNC any favors.

Sorry, not as good as UVA. Good try, though.

[Anonymous]

I am the PP who has a child at UNC. While the campus is large and diverse, we have never gotten the impression
that it is "slightly weird". And, student has never been deterred with "NC legislature pushing super conservative social agenda".

If anything, student has been impressed with open dialogue.

OP asked if anyone knew students at UNC and did not ask for a comparison of schools. I will repeat that for us, child
has been very happy and has had a great experience.

[Anonymous]

It's your typical state school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A good, albeit slightly weird school.

I don't think the kids are weird. They are the same top of their class go to Flagship U students that go to UVA. Although, probably less impressive, because UNC is not fishing from a NOVA type talent pool. And half of all instate students who apply are admitted (vs 15% OOS).

But, the NC legislature is pushing its super conservative social agenda on the school. And that is not doing UNC any favors.

Sorry, not as good as UVA. Good try, though.

UNC and UVA are virtually indistinguishable.

—the world

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A good, albeit slightly weird school.

I don't think the kids are weird. They are the same top of their class go to Flagship U students that go to UVA. Although, probably less impressive, because UNC is not fishing from a NOVA type talent pool. And half of all instate students who apply are admitted (vs 15% OOS).

But, the NC legislature is pushing its super conservative social agenda on the school. And that is not doing UNC any favors.

Sorry, not as good as UVA. Good try, though.

UNC and UVA are virtually indistinguishable.

—the world

Agreed.

Signed,
A grad of both schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A good, albeit slightly weird school.

I don't think the kids are weird. They are the same top of their class go to Flagship U students that go to UVA. Although, probably less impressive, because UNC is not fishing from a NOVA type talent pool. And half of all instate students who apply are admitted (vs 15% OOS).

But, the NC legislature is pushing its super conservative social agenda on the school. And that is not doing UNC any favors.

Sorry, not as good as UVA. Good try, though.

UNC and UVA are virtually indistinguishable.

—the world

Actually no - in terms of consulting and finance recruiting uva is in a much higher tier

And I say this as someone who would never attend uva nor would I let my kids go there

[Anonymous]

UNC is seen as more pleasant. And I think it has a certain cache to it as it's not UMD-UVA. Sort of signals you have coin to afford out of state tuition. Your kid is unique, not afraid to leave their in-state bubble / high school friends.