<p>what are most UNC's students like? artsy? preppy? athletic? conservative/liberal..?</p>
<p>someone please respond?</p>
<p>a good blend of everything. but from what I hear, it is a very friendly campus</p>
<p>Friendly, liberal, and rather outgoing. Normal looking kids, more females than males, and has an athletic feel to it.</p>
<p>yeah unc=very diverse.</p>
<p>I'd actually beg to differ... I don't see UNC as being very diverse. 85% north carolinian, mostly white, very athletic. Some internationals. The occasional out-of-stater. And yes, friendly, since it's a southern school.</p>
<p>is anyone bothered by it's size? and is it hard to get into or more of a safety.</p>
<p>uhh well that depends on the applicant...</p>
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In-state it's possible for it to be a safety. It's almost always a match or reach for OOS applicants.</p>
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<p>There are a lot of 'preppy-looking' students at UNC. I had never seen so many students dress up for football games! However, you can find students to meet your tastes.</p>
<p>As far as dressing for football games goes, it's a very southern thing but by comparison, UNC is lightweight by comparison to U South Carolina, UGA, Bama, Ole Miss etc. At Bama, So Carolina and a few others the girls wear black dresses and pearls....no kidding!...don't really see that at UNC.</p>
<p>For an OOS student UNC is hardly a safety. You'll see lots of older posts on CC where students were accepted to Ivies like Penn, Brown and Columbia and turned down at UNC.</p>
<p>As far as size, interstingly, once you are there, despite the big campus, things don't really feel that big. The academic core is somewhat centralized. When visiting we've often run into people numerous times in a given day.</p>
<p>As to diversity, it is far more diverse than many other southern schools if you are looking at diversity as being more than just a racial/ethnic statistic. It is certainly more liberal which also means more accepting of racial/ethnic/gender diversity though unfortunately some self-segregation occurs at UNC as it does at most other schools.</p>
<p>After visiting at least 20 schools in the northeast and southeast during both my S and D's college searches, UNC still ranks as the one campus that had more people smiling, laughing and generally happy than at ANY school we visited. Chapel Hill is about as close to college Nirvana as you will find and students truly hate leaving there when they graduate.</p>
<p>GetouttaBuffalo, just because you are from the State of NC doesn't mean you are just like every other in stater. The campus is highly diverse, I really couldn't stereotype a UNC student. </p>
<p>Oh, and find me a school in the U.S. that isn't mostly white. The whole country is mostly white, why would we buck the trend?</p>
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As far as size, interstingly, once you are there, despite the big campus, things don't really feel that big. The academic core is somewhat centralized. When visiting we've often run into people numerous times in a given day.
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<p>Haha, it's my second semester and I can 100 percent agree with this.</p>
<p>I agree with chillmandan. I've stated this before, but NC itself is very diverse and stretches from the mountains to the sea. The people who live here are as diverse as the landscape. I also think that a public university is generally much more diverse (on many other levels) than are smaller private universities. </p>
<p>On another thread here somewhere (parents cafe?), someone recently posted a link to a news article about "inbound" states. NC was the top state for people moving "in." UNC may have ~80% in-state, but that also does not mean they are all from NC or the South. </p>
<p>And while UNC's percentage of blacks is admittedly not equal to that of the State as a whole, UNC-Chapel Hill was ranked #1 in 2005 and 2006 by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education as having the highest percentage of blacks in its first year class, among the highest ranked universities (top 30, I think). <a href="http://www.jbhe.com/preview/autumn06preview.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jbhe.com/preview/autumn06preview.html</a></p>
<p>Oops.. I think warblersrule just posted this, too.^</p>
<p>A lot of the students at UNC are preppy, and after a while they all start to look the same... or blend into a few stereotypical categories. One thing is for sure, the guys at UNC (besides my boyfriend) are so tiny!!</p>
<p>uh, can you say unfair generalization.</p>
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<p>Cal Berkeley is 45% asian and there's no way that blacks and hispanics don't make up at least 5%.</p>
<p>ok...california schools DO NOT count. especially berkeley..</p>
<p>and i would also like to point out that UNC has the #1 study abroad program out of public schools. the campus is very global and a strong strong strong commitment to diversity</p>
<p>They're mostly preppy. Sit a while on a bench on Franklin Street, and the people will start to all look the same after about 15 minutes.</p>
<p>Everyone wears a lot of North Face (jackets and backpacks), Vera Bradley, pearl earrings, and probably 75-80% have Rainbow sandals, which are worn until the depths of winter (pretty mild to northerners, I guess)..</p>
<p>Also, at least 1/3 of them will be wearing something Carolina--everyone's super spirited.
They're mostly all nice people, but there definitely is a "type."</p>