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

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 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.

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

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?

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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.

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

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.

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.

LAX star

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

This is what I did and I endorse this approach!

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….

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 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 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.

Skip under grad ans go to UNC for grad school.