<p>@HLedbetter:</p>
<p>UNCC couldn’t be THAT bad, could it? On my campus visit, the students seemed like regular college students hanging out and enjoying things as much as students at any other school. Based on the image of UNCC that your post paints, I would imagine the Charlotte students would have been grabbing me by the shoulder and warning me to get out while I still could.</p>
<p>As for academic reputation, I don’t think anyone here is going to claim that UNCC competes with schools like Chapel Hill or NC State. But the admissions standards for UNC Charlotte are still more stringent than those of ECU, WCU, and UNCG. That would lead me to believe that few people would consider UNCC’s academics to actually be “bad” per se.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to say that you’re lying, but you have to understand that I’m getting very mixed reviews of UNC Charlotte. Half of the reviews I see online claim the school is horrible and a huge mistake; while the other half assure me that UNCC is a very pleasant school, and that the others are just trolls trying to make Charlotte look bad. The positive reviews also note that many of the detracting claims are made by individuals who graduated from UNCC years ago, and are unaware of what the school is like today. I simply don’t know who to believe. </p>
<p>Right now, I am strongly considering UNC Charlotte alongside Appalachian State for enrollment this fall. Is there any other advice you could give me on the subject? I don’t want to make the wrong choice for my future.</p>