<p>This may be a tad off topic, but at my DD’s highly regarded public high school in Illinois, 6-8 friends applied to UNC-CH. All had the expected ECs. The one with the highest ACT score (35) was accepted; the next two (including my DD were wait-listed); the rest declined. Even though I am a legacy (according to the alumni association which keeps asking for money! - I attend one year) as is my father (who taught while working on his PHd), I had warned DD she might not be accepted and certainly wouldn’t get any $$ with “only” a 32 ACT and 25/850+ class rank. But at UNC we are OOS. What I whine about is the cost of in-state tuition at our equivalent UIUC. Next year just tuition and fees will be around $15000 and engineering/business and select other majors will be $18,600! She has been given a James Scholar designation, but there is no $$ attached. From what I can figure, there are no scholarship $$ except for those at the very tip-top of the class and athletes or URM. DD is looking for warm weather and a Greek social scene. We are thrilled that at Bama and USC she is considered academically elite and qualifies for significant scholarship $$. And being in an honors program and being required to maintain a minimum GPA to keep the scholarship will, no doubt, be a good thing for my social butterfly.</p>