It amazed me that so many people experienced the UNC acceptance rate issue. I thought it was just me and some HS’s in NJ. My D19 did get into UNC eventually after the initial wait-listed but she wouldn’t pick UNC anyway, as she preferred CMU, JHU, UCB, UCLA, UMich OVER UNC . And no I don’t think it was a fluke that she got accepted to those schools.
If i didn’t know any better, I would have said UNC has something against NJ, because, really, why would they rejected so many top NJ students? Why would they impose quota per state? That just lowers the caliber of their student body. I mean just look at their average GPA/test score, it doesn’t represent a school with 5-8% acceptance rate for OOS. Seems counter productive. But what do I know?