The Most Underrated School in each State

ethelouise
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:25:42 +0000

Re UNC: UNC admission is competitive, but UNC did admit slightly over 50% of NC applicants in 2014. UNC’s low over-all admit rate (less than 30% in 2014) is driven by the high number of out-of-state applicants–over 20,000 in 2014, compared to about10,000 in-state applicants.

On average, 25 students per year (about 4% of each class) go to UNC-CH from my son’s high school, a competitive public high school in a populous urban NC county. In addition to those 25, there are many other student in year who got admitted, but chose to go elsewhere. Justified or not, the top 2-3% of students at my son’s high school consider UNC a safety school, as does the guidance director (for those top students.)