@mom2collegekids that made me laugh, in all honesty. But I tend to use star ratings.
@Qwerty568 UNCW is a 4 star school on a 5 star scale. There are NUMEROUS schools that are better than mine. I didn’t say almost every flagship in the US, in fact only UMass and UAlabama were mentioned. However, since you want me to name almost every flagship in the US, I will say without uncertainty that it academically eclipses the state flagships of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
UNCW is also most certainly equal to and worthy of the state flagships of Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, and South Carolina. I should also mention that it’s on par with schools such as Michigan State, Florida State, South Florida, Central Florida, TCNJ, Stevens, Baylor, Texas A&M, and Stony Brook, and is slightly better than Temple, UBuffalo, and Rowan. Also, it’s far better than Arizona State. The flagships in the states that I didn’t mention are better than UNCW.
North Carolina is the fourth best state for higher education in the country based on the quality of its colleges and universities, both public and private, behind Massachusetts, California, and New York. UNC Wilmington is the sixth best school in the state (behind Duke, Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, NC State, and Davidson). That means that it’s clearly better than a ton of schools out there. And if you really want to make the “branch campus vs state flagship” argument do you really think a Californian branch campus is stronger than North Carolina’s state flagship?
I admit, UNCW isn’t for everyone. Some people don’t fit in with the laid-back and chill environment. But then again, a lot of people do. Just because UA would give high-stats students full tuition, doesn’t make it a good fit for everyone.
I don’t at all regret what I said at the time, but obviously people change over time. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t have wasted my time applying to UMass knowing that they blatantly ignore an entire section of the SAT. I would have cut a few other schools as well.
@mommdc I know what you’re referring to. If you read what I was saying properly, you’d have picked up that wasn’t upset about Pitt rejecting me at all. I was more laughing at the fact that Pitt-Johnstown really expected me to attend their school. Like, really?