@ncmom1011: As other posters in this forum have touched on elsewhere, the county of your residence in North Carolina may have an impact on admission chances at UNC-CH. The UNC System is making an effort to increase enrollment of North Carolina students from under-represented and/or economically distressed counties, as set forth in a document styled “Higher Expectations”: The Strategic Plan for the University of North Carolina (2017-2022). At Page 9 in that document, it states as follows:
“2. Rural: By fall 2021, increase enrollment of students from Tier 1 and Tier 2 counties by 11% over fall 2016 levels (an average of 2% per year) to reduce the existing participation gap by at least half.”
(Counties are placed in “tiers” as follows: “The N.C. Department of Commerce annually ranks the state’s 100 counties based on economic well-being and assigns each a Tier designation. The 40 most distressed counties are designated as Tier 1, the next 40 as Tier 2 and the 20 least distressed as Tier 3. A county automatically qualifies as Tier 1 if it has a population less than 12,000 people or if it has a population less than 50,000 and a poverty rate of 19 percent or greater. A county automatically qualifies as Tier 2 if it has a population less than 50,000.”)
https://www.northcarolina.edu/sites/default/files/unc_strategic_plan.pdf
The State of North Carolina has published the tier designations for its counties, here: https://www.nccommerce.com/research-publications/incentive-reports/county-tier-designations.
So, this policy is something that you need to be aware of; it will likely affect the population of applicants from Wake and Mecklenburg Counties (and other, more populous NC counties) in a negative way, generally speaking. How it could affect your specific applicant is something that you might want to discuss with your child’s guidance counselor.