<p>Hey guys I have another question, I am an out of state student but most of my family graduated from UNC, does this increase my chances?</p>
<p>If by family you mean parents then your chances are helped considerably by that if you are out of state. I believe the acceptance rate for out of state legacy applicants has been something like 37% in years past whereas its more like 20% for non legacy out of state applicants. Somewhat counterintuitively, the legacy piece for instate kids doesn’t count as much, I guess because there are so many of them and all NC residents support UNC through their tax dollars. Not so with out of state kids, who pay a lot more in tuition should they enroll.</p>
<p>By family I mean Aunts and Uncles, 3 Aunts, and 5 Uncles. Another question I have is We have a house in Georgia and a house in North Carolina in which we are paying taxes on. would i be considered out of state or in state</p>
<p>I’m not 100% sure, but you are almost certainly OOS. Which state is your driving licence from? Where do you file your tax returns? Where is your main residence?</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t see how you could claim in state. I’ve never understood how people say “oh, I’ll claim my uncle’s house as residency” when you’re transcript shows what school you go to.</p>
<p>Yea my license is from Georgia, so would it be smart for me to stay in Georgia for a year, cause after i graduate high school my parents are moving to the house in North Carolina. Would that techinically make me a instate/transfer student, or would i be considered just a transfer student</p>
<p>I don’t know how long you have to live in the state to be counted as “instate,” but I know on the application they ask a lot of questions about residency. Basically, they want to know if you moved to NC within the past 5 years, and if so, why? Fortunately, I’ve lived in NC since 7th grade (and all 4 years of high school), so there won’t be any trouble. I would see if their admissions site has any information about that.</p>
<p>You’d be applying as an OOS from Georgia. Unfortunately I don’t think 100 aunts and uncles who graduated from UNC add up to the legacy advantage that one alumni parent does for an OOS applicant. There are specific things required to prove residency for instate tuition purposes. If your parents move to their NC house following your HS graduation they should research what those requirements are so you can be eligible for instate tuition after a year or two (whatever) or as a transfer down the road. I’ve heard that the instate vs out of state status matters less when applying as a transfer student, i.e. tougher to get through the eye of the needle as an OOS freshman applicant than as an OOS transfer applicant. These are important questions and you shouldn’t rely on CC for the answers. Ask UNC.</p>
<p>My son applied UNC and I got a letter from admissions office last week telling me that he has about 40% chance for admission in comparion to other Non-Legacy OOS. That is quite a bit for OOS! </p>
<p>For god sake, I was told that a guy applied to UNC and Harvard as OOS last year. He was accepted by Harvard but rejected by UNC. Go figure…This says a lot about UNC. By the way, the Chacellor Holden T. applied only UNC when he applied for college. Had the honor of sharing the research advisor with Holden while I was at UNC. Just love the school!</p>
<p>I don’t mean to hijack the thread or anything, but I’m instate and although neither of my parents attended UNC, I’m a direct descendant of the first UNC student, Hinton James (we looked it up; he’s my great-great-great-great grandfather). There’s a dorm named after him on campus and there’s like an annual reenactment of his walk from Wilmington to Chapel Hill or something. Will the admissions office care about this?</p>
<p>They might, actually. UNC-CH seems to love that sort of propaganda… ‘Hinton James descendant comes home to Carolina’ or something… you can see it now!</p>
<p>aiginquif - I think you are in if your stats are in the ballpark.</p>
<p>yea that just sounds good, oh well hopefully my stats will be good enough</p>
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<p>Best of luck to you! 
If you UNC isn’t able to offer you admission for your first year, you can always see about transferring if you really, really want to attend. I hear that transfer admission isn’t based on state residency. Even if your relatives don’t make you a “legacy” for out of state admission, it’d still give me warm fuzzies if I were an admissions officer. Again, sorry if I hijacked your thread. =/</p>
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<p>Oh, wow. I can totally see that.</p>
<p>Just to clear things up, residency (IS or OOS) isn’t considered at all for Transfer students, as has been mentioned before.</p>
<p>aiginqinf, like people have said, if you’re stats are in the ball park, you have a good shot. Pretty much the only time IS legacy matters even a little bit is when you can trace your ancestry to Hinton James. I think admissions personnel actually say that when they talk about IS legacy at information sessions.</p>
<p>And UNC itself probably would never write something like that. Although I could definitely see the Daily Tar Heel, the financially independent school newspaper, wanting to write a human interest piece.</p>
<p>yea good luck to you. i still have a year to pull up my grades so wish me luck</p>
<p>Good Luck FosterII!</p>