<p>markyang is right. </p>
<p>Since UNC is a public university and receives money from its state’s tax payers, the university is mandated to accept a certain percentage of IS freshman applicants, creating a disadvantage for OOS freshman applicants. This isn’t true for transfer admissions, though. The university has already met its IS quota for the class, so OOS transfer applicants have as good a shot as the IS students.</p>
<p>I would imagine that OOS applicants may even be favored a little because the university has the opportunity to earn more money. A lot of universities are this way, but not to the point where they would accept a very unqualified student just because he/she is out of state. No one will ever truly know if UNC favors them or not. </p>
<p>I do think that UNC may have some special agreement with some NC community colleges? Like, they are mandated to accept a certain amount of students from them? Anyone know about this?</p>
<p>Yeah, but UNC is need-blind. So, even though the admissions people may be aware of your residency status, they have no idea what your money situation is like and how it may impact the university financially. The university could profit if you’re well off, but it could just as easily lose money if you’re from a low-income family and need more assistance to attend. </p>
<p>The program you’re referring to is called [url=<a href=“http://admissions.unc.edu/CSTEP/]C-STEP[/url”>Applying to C-STEP - Undergraduate Admissions]C-STEP[/url</a>], and it’s set up for low-income, IS community college students. However, it’s not a state/federally mandated program, so UNC is not legally required to bring in a certain number of students. The university may have its own quota, but it can’t be very much as the program has only served around 180 students since its inception in 2006 - and of the 180, only 50 have enrolled at UNC so far.</p>
<p>Oh. I wasn’t sure about the CC thing because in some states, such as Florida, the U of F is required to accept CC students as long as they have a 2.5.</p>
<p>That’s true that UNC doesn’t know how well off an applicant is, but I don’t think that UNC provides much need-based assistance. I know they give out academic scholarships to very impressive applicants, but I think that most need-based assistance would be from the government. Many public schools favor OOS applicants (even freshmen) because of this.</p>
<p>Unc actually gives alot of need based aid lolz…</p>
<p>Beast is right. I’ve heard multiple past transfers say they were very happy with their UNC financial aid package.</p>
<p>all I’m saying is that I highly doubt they give enough finaid to cover the roughly $30,000 OOS tuition cost</p>
<p>You’re right, they probably don’t give all that for X amount of semesters til you get your degree. However, I’ve been told by multiple past transfer students that they are generous. There was a past transfer from NYU on here who got everything but a couple thousand covered through various sources (work study+grants and no loans or so he said).</p>
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<p>UNC will cover 100% of a student’s need - see part H2 line (i) of the [Common</a> Data Set](<a href=“http://oira.unc.edu/facts-and-figures/data-summaries-and-publications/common-data-set.html]Common”>http://oira.unc.edu/facts-and-figures/data-summaries-and-publications/common-data-set.html) for UNC. They do this regardless of the student’s residency and cost of attendance. </p>
<p>The university also has a program called the [Carolina</a> Covenant](<a href=“http://www.unc.edu/carolinacovenant/about.php]Carolina”>http://www.unc.edu/carolinacovenant/about.php), which allows students from low-income families (like me) to graduate debt-free. The program not only covers tuition and fees, but also other expenses (room and board, books, supplies, etc.).</p>
<p>I have no “to dos” on my ConnectCarolina.
Will I receive an email saying my application is complete?</p>
<p>Only scam is they don’t cover independent students with the loan free degree…</p>
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Mine’s been like for almost 4 weeks and I haven’t received anything. I do not think you are suppose to anyways. With nothing “to do” on your portal this implies your application is complete.</p>
<p>Anybody else have their transcripts sent in a while ago (like over a month ago), but still see them on the “To-Do List”?</p>
<p>I’m guessing they are just backlogged, so I’ll have to give them a call tomorrow.</p>
<p>Got an email from admissions a few days ago. It seems as if my transfer essay file was corrupt and I need to re-send one by the 12th. Anybody want to take a look and help me critique my essay? :)</p>
<p>I will take a look at it.</p>
<p>I can check it out also.</p>
<p>How do we cheer each other up while worrying about admission decisions?</p>
<p>All this talk about in state versus oos being the same cannot be true. North Carolina students from families that have been paying taxes in NC are going to be favored. NC prides itself in its high quality state universities i.e UNC, NC State, UNCW and Appalachian. The reason the state cares so much and invests so much into these schools is because they know they will attract families to NC who are going to educate their children, who will contribute to society, and in turn help create a prosperous North Carolina.</p>
<p>Hi Panther,
For UNC, The OOS cap does not apply for transfer students. I don’t know what the other state schools have in place or what their stats are. 40% of Carolina’s transfers last year were out of state. With the economic downturn, I know that schools like UNC-A (great little LAC) have been nudging to have the state system wide cap of 18% OOS freshman admits raised. Some policy makers have suggested raising OOS admits are a way of infusing the schools with more money from the OOS tuition monies.</p>
<p>^ especially because the majority of freshman out of state admins are so smart that they wind up getting full academic scholarships. The students from my high school who went to UNC were admitted to Ivies and received a ton of money from UNC + lap tops as extra incentive to go</p>