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UNC at Chapel Hill - Basic Information

Chapel Hill, NC

Total undergrad enrollment: 17,981

Ranked #30 in 2011 edition of National Universities (US News)

41% male/59% female

Application deadline - Jan. 31

Early action deadline - Nov. 2

Application fee: $70

Acceptance rate: 31.6%

Early action acceptance rate: 37.9%

Range SAT Critical Reading: 600-700
Range SAT Math: 610-700
Range SAT Writing: 590-690
Range ACT Composite: 26-31

Required standardized tests: either SAT or ACT

Admissions interview: neither required/recommended

SAT subject tests: optional 

Tuition and fees: $25,280 (out of state)

Room and board: $8,670

16% in fraternities, 17% in sororities

Most popular majors: biological and biomedical sciences, business, communication/journalism, psychology, and social sciences

Average freshman retention rate: 96.5%

NCAA I

UNC at Chapel Hill - PROS

Academics

• Small honors seminars
• Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI) - provides practical experiences that help students become more entrepreneurial, includes an entrepreneurship minor and the Carolina Challenge - a student-run competition that awards up to $50,000
• Thousands of merit scholarships: average of $5,308

Student Life

• Great weather
• Gorgeous/comfortable campus
• Balanced atmosphere
• People aren't always stressed out
• Tons of clubs and organizations
• Beautiful campus
• Pretty good housing/food options
• Chapel Hill - perfect college town
• Diverse student body
• Everybody loves it!
• Ranked #13 - happiest students
• Ranked #2 - best college newspaper

UNC at Chapel Hill - CONS

• Academic advising - weak point
• Complicated requirements for majors
• Hard for out-of-staters to get in because they reserve more than 80% of the spots for in-staters
• Ratio of guys to girls unbalanced (more girls)
• Unpredictable weather
• Only 38.9% of classes have fewer than 20 students
• 53% of students live off campus