Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 10:49     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill
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Anonymous wrote:Unhooked and 1,580 SAT is an oxymoron. That was your hook.


Umm, no.


Yeah, that's not a hook. That's just high stats.


+100


+200
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 10:43     Subject: Re:UNC- Chapel Hill
Anonymous wrote:My unhooked DC was accepted OOS from a DC private and offered Honors College. Stats were virtually all As in most rigorous classes, 35 ACT, varsity sports x4 years, and several ECs with leadership plus student government.


Did she accept?
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 10:19     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill
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Anonymous wrote:When does everyone think UNC EA will come out?


Next Friday 1/31


UNC, UVA and UMD are all Firday 1-31 so a lot of hearts may be broken next Friday in the DMV


DD's heart is already broken from 12/15 with UVA's ED rejection.


It's hard. My son was deferred at UVA and now in the regular decision pool. He's coming a DC private - UVA clumps all DC privates into *one school* so we rejoiced at the deferral, LoL.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 09:51     Subject: Re:UNC- Chapel Hill
Anonymous wrote:You don’t stand out. Accept the odds and apply if you want, but know it’s highly unlikely. Focus on where your kid has a realistic chance rather than wasting your time on something you know isn’t going to happen

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Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 09:49     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill
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Anonymous wrote:When does everyone think UNC EA will come out?


Next Friday 1/31


UNC, UVA and UMD are all Firday 1-31 so a lot of hearts may be broken next Friday in the DMV


DD's heart is already broken from 12/15 with UVA's ED rejection.


Michigan, too, I think?


Michigan is probably going to be 1/24. The admissions IG account has posted the cube the week it releases in past years. It went up yesterday.

Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 09:25     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill
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Anonymous wrote:When does everyone think UNC EA will come out?


Next Friday 1/31


UNC, UVA and UMD are all Firday 1-31 so a lot of hearts may be broken next Friday in the DMV


DD's heart is already broken from 12/15 with UVA's ED rejection.


Michigan, too, I think?
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:52     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill
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Anonymous wrote:Unhooked and 1,580 SAT is an oxymoron. That was your hook.


Umm, no.


Yeah, that's not a hook. That's just high stats.


This. A hook is something that:

Allows someone with lower stats to be admitted over someone else and/or

Gives the app preference for an early admission and/or

Allows someone with good stats to be admitted over others with good or better stats

- low income
- recruited
- first gen
- location you’re from (rural, state where the school has few to no applicants)
- famous/rich kid or parent(s)
-minority


Minority status is no longer a hook per the Supreme Court. Try to keep up.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:41     Subject: Re:UNC- Chapel Hill
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Anonymous wrote:HI asking for a friend, UNC is still test optional? Their DC has great stats but not great SAT-just not a good test taker.

Thanks


Google works for this. Why can't your friend answer this? Or their kid?


This. Esp since no friend asked you to find this out.
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:24     Subject: Re:UNC- Chapel Hill
Anonymous wrote:HI asking for a friend, UNC is still test optional? Their DC has great stats but not great SAT-just not a good test taker.

Thanks


Google works for this. Why can't your friend answer this? Or their kid?
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 08:17     Subject: Re:UNC- Chapel Hill
HI asking for a friend, UNC is still test optional? Their DC has great stats but not great SAT-just not a good test taker.

Thanks
Anonymous
Post 01/22/2025 00:26     Subject: Re:UNC- Chapel Hill
My unhooked DC was accepted OOS from a DC private and offered Honors College. Stats were virtually all As in most rigorous classes, 35 ACT, varsity sports x4 years, and several ECs with leadership plus student government.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 23:55     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill



My daughter applied. UNC stopped Legacy in State but it alive well Out of State.


There has never been an in-state legacy status: half the state went to UNC. The OOS legacy hook has been there forever but only a tiny fraction of OOS apps are legacy. It's negligible part of the total apps, and legacy admits a fraction of total oos admits.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 23:53     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill
Anonymous wrote:Already posted as NC resident. I haven’t heard of the oos legacy being treated as in-state, but can definitely confirm plenty of legacy kids are denied.

If UVA was an option, I wouldn’t spend the money. My own was a Jefferson semi-finalist, once that didn’t pan out, no way I’d pay oos tuition. Similar enough.



I don't think that rumor is true. Historically OOS legacies have been admitted a rate comparable to that of in-state students (40 percent), but this in no way means they are treated as "in-state," indeed, even "in-state" kids are subject to different standards depending on which part of the state they are from.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 21:16     Subject: UNC- Chapel Hill
Anonymous wrote:I wish UVA accepted more in state students. It's BS how Virginia isn't taking care of its own. My kid maybe still wouldn't have gotten in, but I don't understand why they can't take more in state.


They need the money from OOS students. They pay more than the cost of attendance and subsidize the overall enterprise. Same for every other public university in Virginia that can attract OOS applicants who are willing to pay a premium over in-state.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 21:04     Subject: Re:UNC- Chapel Hill
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Anonymous wrote:It seems nearly impossible to get into this school from out of state. Why are so many people obsessed with it? Is it that much better than lots of other state flagships?


This. It’s not actually better than other flagships.


It is.


Prove it.


Well get admitted OOS like I did and attend. Then you’ll know.


They didn’t teach you how to craft a better argument? At least we know your opinion might be biased.


Sorry you didn’t get admitted.


lol what a weak rebuttal


It’s the kind of response that people around here think is clever.


NP here. No the response of “prove it” is what posters think make them oh so clever.

What makes a school great for one student may not for another for all types of reasons. How is a PP supposed to “prove” that Carolina (no one calls it UNC-CH) is worth it and may be better than UVA or UMD? One person says it is, another says it’s not. Poster asking for someone to prove it is the disingenuous one.

The school also doesn’t have an artificially induced low acceptance rate. It’s mandated by law since the 80s.


It’s a lazy comment, to be sure. But no, the whole “sorry you didn’t get admitted/your kid didn’t get admitted/your kid didn’t get a bid” type comments that come up regularly here as if they are good comebacks just show how socially and intellectually stunted many of the people on this forum are.


You get what you give.