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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a UNC grad from out of state.  It is definitely a school with name recognition throughout the US, more so than UVA.  I know that it is because of basketball, but people still consider it a great school.  I feel like it is like Michigan in that you will see lots of Carolina hats/sweatshirts/etc and it doesn't necessarily mean that people are alum.

I had a great experience at UNC and went on to get a PhD from an ivy with complete funding; a student from Berkeley and I were the only ones in our cohort not from an Ivy or SLAC.

It is definitely not a safety for in-state students. People should realize when they make statements like that they lose all credibility.  Stats are readily available. [/quote]

I am the out-of-state student who transferred out.  It definitely is a safety school for many in-state residents.  It was very difficult to get in as an out of stater, and it just didn’t have the reputation for being so difficult in state.  Not even close.  Not sure how you can claim otherwise.  It is a beautiful campus, though.[/quote]

NP. Perhaps it is a safety for the top students in state, definitely not for the majority. [/quote]

[b]I can’t say I polled a majority of the students there, but I never got the feeling that in-staters felt like they were attending an elite institution.  It was just their state school.  [/quote][/b]

Well UVA is the state flagship of Virginia and students there certainly feel like it's an elite institution. But for any state flagship, you are going to have quite a few kids who got in to higher ranked schooos but chose not to attend due to cost.

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I agree that state schools can be a great option for in-staters.  As an out-of-stater at UNC, though, I just didn’t feel like it was worth paying the OOS tuition for a school that many in-staters attended by default.[/quote]

This is exactly what my current MD jr says about UVA. [/quote]

Fair enough.  I know I’m staying in VA so that, in the very least, my DS will be able to attend UVA when the time comes.  In fact, as a Va resident, I can only think of a few schools that would be worth the price of tuition over in-state Va tuition.  I’m sure NC residents feel the same way about UNC.  Not sure MD residents have the same feeling about UMD, but I defer to you on that one.[/quote]

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