<p>Hi guys and gals. I was accepted to UNC - chapel hill and i am fully excited! I went on a North Carolina school tour during the summer but i didn't go visit UNC because i didn't want to be discouraged that i wouldn't get in...or so i thought. I now realize that it was a huge mistake and i really regret not visiting it. I don't think i will have a chance to visit it because i live all the way in CT and i was wondering if some of you guys who have visited or go there could tell me a couple things about the campus. that would be great! thank you for your time in reading this thread and if you do, answering!</p>
<p>What other schools did you visit in North Carolina? This might help for folks to give more useful information to you…if they can say this is…like NC State…like Wake Forest…unlike Duke…etc.</p>
<p>My visit to unc is what changed it from 2nd place on my list of two to 1st place. North campus is full of beautiful trees that looked AMAZING in October. The buildings on north campus were beautiful, old-fashioned and made of brick. the libraries were all pretty gorgeous too. The tour didn’t take us to south campus, which isn’t as traditional, but north was sooo nice.</p>
<p>thanks guys! i visited Wake Forest and i saw the outside of NC state and wasn’t impressed so i didn’t go inside. I loved Wake Forest and everything about it. I also visited Elon but i did not visit Duke. Hope it helps you guys out!</p>
<p>We were only there for a tour so have limited info. The campus was big and pretty especially near admissions and near the domed “well.” It seemed a little haphazard (to me) with buildings here and there but I think a lot of big state campuses are like that. I may be incorrect on that impression, though, since we did not really roam the campus – just got the tour.</p>
<p>I think UNC has a nicer campus than Wake and much nicer than NC State. Lots of mature trees and greenery. Plus Carolina has Franklin street - Wake Forest does not have a decent student area adjacent to campus. The resident halls on the South Campus are not as nice as Central or North Campus, but the academic areas are gorgeous.</p>
<p>Something the tour does not show you are the dorms. I attended shadow programs at both Wake and UNC and the quality is far superior at Wake Forest. While this would not be a problem if you were to live off campus both schools require you to live on campus for at least one year. Wake’s dorms are much nicer and the rooms are generally larger as well.</p>
<p>I also toured dorms at both schools, and I completely disagree. I know this will sound funny, but Chapel Hill’s campus gives off a much “cleaner” vibe. When I went to Wake, the frats had teepeed the trees and nobody had cleaned it up, so there was a goopy mess every where. The dorm I saw seemed cramped and outdated. Chapel Hill just screams quintessential college town to me, and it gives me chills to walk campus imagining myself there for four years of my life. Another thing that irked me about Wake was that students were wearing rival schools’ sports clothing (including UNC!!!), whereas when you go to Chapel Hill you will see more students wearing Carolina blue than you ever have in your entire life and it would be heresy to dream of wearing something from Wake, Dook, or State. I guess it really comes down to the feeling you get when you are on campus yourself; there is no substitute for that.</p>
<p>That wasn’t just the frats that had teepeed the trees, that’s a tradition at Wake after big wins in sports to do so… In fact it might have been after the UNC game this year when Wake won…</p>
<p>As far as the college goes it is all about personal taste, if you can handle big classes and less teacher to student one on one time then UNC is a great school. Wake is my top choice because of the smaller classes that allow for more interaction. According to the latest college rankings on one site the two colleges are tied so either way you cannot go wrong. It simply depends on how you learn.</p>
<p>The problem (to use the word loosely) with Carolina’s campus is that it’s extremely eclectic. The architecture is a jumble of different styles, and some buildings are arranged on quads while others are not. Duke and Wake have a much more uniform, organized feel to their campuses. While I would agree that parts of Carolina’s campus are attractive (forest theater, Coker, the north quad around the Well, etc.), other parts of it are not (most things south of the bell tower). I would say that as a whole, Wake has a prettier campus. </p>
<p>To answer AC1460’s question, Carolina most closely resembles NC State – but has far less brick and far more landscaping. It’s closest to Davidson in appearance, actually, but I don’t think you’ve visited that campus either.</p>
<p>I would dispute hunterg’s claim about large classes. Only 5% of all classes at UNC have over a hundred students, and all of those classes break down into smaller recitations. 50% of the classes at UNC are 20 students or less, and there are caps on core classes like foreign languages, math, and english.</p>
<p>As far as the feel of the campus, North Campus is, as a whole, much prettier than South Campus. And the campus has an eclectic feel because of all the new building. Old East and Old West, the two oldest residence halls on campus, were recently renovated, re-opening this year. A state of the art science center is being built to replace Venable Hall. And all of the directional dorms on South Campus were built less than ten years ago. </p>
<p>One last note, although UNC refers to different parts of its campus as North and South, it is still ONE campus. I lived on North Campus last year and live on South Campus now, and it takes me less time to walk to some of my classes than it did last year. Totally different from Duke, where you pretty much have to take a bus to get to East Campus.</p>
<p>You’re right that classes get smaller but it depends on your major and what year you are. I shadowed a sophomore on the pre-med track which is huge at UNC and in the two classes I went to there were 220 and 250 people respectively. Depending on the major some classes simply cannot be small at Chapel Hill. I shadowed at Wake for the same classes and there were only 35-40 people.</p>
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Eh, I suppose. Walking around one part of campus, for example, you have Davis, playmakers theater, and the union all within a relatively short distance of one another – and they’re all incredibly different in style.</p>
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The distance is greatly exaggerated. I regularly made the trip at a leisurely pace in 20 minutes; a brisk walk can get you there in 15.</p>