<p>This article about future merit aid and scholarships is in today's Daily Tar Heel</p>
<p>Frankly, I'm not surprised. UNC is rapidly improving and, like many competitive schools, takes many other factors into account. What I'm wondering is if these 60 new scholarships are mainly going to go to in-state students or the more diverse out-of-staters.</p>
<p>Here's another article about this subject:</p>
<p>I feel that there is too much room for discrimination against those with certain viewpoints when you move to a more subjective standard.</p>
<p>That second article is ridiculous, especially if you look at who it's coming from and the website that it's on. I believe that two numbers (SAT and rank), or even 5 numbers (SAT, 3 SAT IIs, and rank), are not enough to admit someone on. There have to be subjective admissions. Yes, it does seem unfair that someone who is top 10% with a 1400 is admitted over someone else who is top 5% with a 1500, but life does not consist of numbers; that would be too easy (and boring) of a life. We are all unique, and that is what Thomas Sowell is missing. When I'm sitting in a classroom discussing... this policy... I would rather have an intelligent (and no, there is no "magic number" that I would consider intelligent) student coming from a missionary family in South America than a cookie-cutter 1600 valedictorian. I got rejected from 2 schools and waitlisted at 1. I probably had scores and grades higher than many admits. I'm over it! This guy is probably still mad that he didn't get into his first-choice. Either that or he doesn't know what education really means. I agree, however, that we should not select through a lottery of "qualified applicants;" that would be detrimental to a school's mission and to the concept of education. In the end, you just can't trust a guy who writes a book about this: "But even as both black and white Southerners have moved up in class and affluence, Sowell notes that ghettos are still filled with "black rednecks" who have never escaped these self-destructive patterns. Why not? Their attempt to escape, Sowell says, has been consistently and repeatedly hampered by white liberals!"</p>
<p>I'm apologize, but I rant when I get mad. And that article made me mad.</p>
<p>Just wanted to write even though I didn't recieve a scholarship UNC has been very generous with my aid. I'm eligible for only about $2,000 in aid and was given it all in grants as well as a $1,900 grant for a laptop. I was expecting pretty much loans if anything.</p>