Is business the hardest major to get in for at UNC?

I applied for business and was wondering if getting in for business is really hard. I’m oos and Ik that makes it extremely hard for me too.

Business isn’t really a major should you be admitted as a first year. You’re considered pre buisness and must then apply to be admitted into the business school sophomore year unless you are an assured admit. As for majors generally, there isn’t really a rhyme or reason that makes a major “harder” for admissions. They’re very fluid and many of them are bound to change so whatever major you choose should not affect your admission chances.

As the previous poster stated, choosing business on your initial application will have no bearing on getting into UNC. It is random who gets assured admission to K-F, so most students take the prereqs for applying to the business school their Freshman and Sophomore year and apply the beginning of their sophomore year. Results of the 2018 K-F applications were released Monday. To my knowledge they haven’t given any statistics for this year, but typically around 50% of applicants are admitted and the GPA is pretty high, so it is difficult to get in, but again not super difficult if you have strong grades, extracurriculars, business clubs, work experience, etc. They are expanding the business program as detailed on the K-F site. Good luck.

Thank you. I really do like the business program and being realistic as an oos student I don’t think I will be one of the 100 who makes assured business. Would you say it’s still worth going to UNC if I get in for prebusiness ?

@1TakeIncgognito That would of course depend on all your other options but UNC has a fantastic business program if you are admitted to the school and cirrcululum overall.

Is out of state really as hard as people say it is? Like I heard it is 8 percent acceptance rate for nonlegacy out of state.

@1TakeIncgognito Gandalf has all the numbers there but yes, it’s a very, very competitive process due to the state mandate, comparable to some ivy leagues in terms of the admissions rates.

OP, regarding the admissions numbers, UNC-CH admits OOS applicants in numbers that are calculated not to exceed 18% of an entering freshman class. See “Undergraduate Admissions” on Page 2, here: http://www.admissions.unc.edu/files/2013/09/Admissions__Policy.pdf. Additionally, fines have been levied against UNC-CH in the recent past for exceeding the admissions cap for OOS admittees (at least if it happens 2 consecutive years: https://alumni.unc.edu/news/fine-okd-after-carolina-exceeds-admissions-cap-for-second-straight-year/). Because of these financial disincentives, I suspect that UNC-CH will be careful that it doesn’t exceed the 18% limit of OOS students in its entering first-year classes.

As a further example of the difficulty for OOS students to be admitted to UNC-CH, the entering Class of 2022 had a 13% acceptance rate for OOS applicants: https://uncnews.unc.edu/2018/08/17/carolina-welcomes-5095-new-undergraduate-students-to-campus/ (29,563 OOS applicants; 3,829 admits). So the acceptance numbers for OOS first-year students are approaching Ivy League levels.

Yes, OOS is as hard as they say with about the same odds as an Ivy League school. The Class of 2022 had 29,563 out of state applicants with 3,829 admissions or an acceptance rate of 12.952% That’s lower than:

Notre Dame: 21.5%
UCLA: 18.5%
USC: 18%
Georgetown: 17%
UC Berkley: 16%
Cornell*: 14.2%
Vanderbilt: 13.1%

Duke and Dartmouth* are both at 11.5%.

*Ivy League

https://www.educationcorner.com/colleges-with-lowest-acceptance-rates.html

@gandalf78 , do you have any numbers specific to Kenan-Flagler assured admits?

@Cavitee: I have not been able to find any information on the Kenan-Flagler AAP statistics. All I could find was for the application program for first-year students, which indicates that Kenan-Flagler admits approximately 350 majors and approximately 50 minors each years, and that the B-school has “had to turn away approximately 50 percent of all applicants to the Undergraduate Business Program”, https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/programs/undergraduate-business/admissions/program-expansion.

But, unfortunately, I can find nothing about statistics for assured admits.