Okay so my very good friend… seriously, not me… was recently rejected as a transfer student to Carolina. However, the strange thing is that for the past couple of semesters she’d been enrolled in a couple of UNC’s online courses, several of which were graduate level courses. With absolutely ZERO exaggeration, she literally got 100’s and above in almost all classes. The lowest grade she got may have been an A-, but probably an A. Before she received her rejection letter from them, she was invited by them to enroll in the honors society, based on her academic performance in the online courses. And yet, she was rejected as a regular transfer applicant. Her SAT’s were well above average, marks throughout high school and college consistently perfect (except for one bad semester) and quite literally she’s pretty much brilliant. I mean, I happen to know that in these online courses, most of the students, if not all of them were enrolled in the regular undergrad program and were just taking some top-off summer classes online to get them over with. Well, most of the students completely bombed the classes and put in just about no effort. Many of them failed the class. But again, my friend received immaculate marks, she wrote very well-informed and thought provoking essays… based on all that she was recommended for the honors society. And yet, rejected as a transfer applicant. What is this all about? They seem to want to avoid follow-up phone calls from rejected applicants… but maybe she should ring them? It just doesn’t seem to make any sense. And form what I understand Carolina’s transfer rate is pretty much on kiel with beginners… around 30%. Please, might anyone have any insight on this… in my opinion, huge miss by Carolina? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I don’t think UNC gives the weight to online classes that it does to seat classes. I am basing this opinion on something I read on their website. If you dig into their website about the parttime studies admission (something local folks who work or didn’t get in the first round do), the instructions state that one must take face-to-face classes during the academic year and do well for three semesters in parttime face-to-face classes, (no online or summer school courses considered )in order to be admitted through this portal. This suggests to me that the online courses are not really considered at least in this third way of entering UNC. (the other two ways being freshman or transfer admit) If the online classes did not carry proctored exams, they carry even less influence.