<p>Tarheel, what did you expect them to say? There is no way someone cannot be a little biased about their college! Lol</p>
<p>If you’re not happy at UNC, then maybe you should consider transferring. The colleges you mentioned, however, definitely do not offer the academic experience that UNC does, which really is most important.</p>
<p>You guys are ridiculous, this thread is called party scene for a reason. I am not talking about any of the academics. But, michigan is actually better than UNC academically in several areas. I am considering transferring. </p>
<p>To get back to my original reason for posting… did people have a lot more fun sophomore year than they did freshmen year? This is what I wanted to hear, but people get defensive when they hear something said bad about their school. But seriously we all know UNC is not a party school, so there is no reason to get mad when I say that UNC is not as fun as I thought it would be. It’s a sports and academic school. Will someone actually please answer my question instead of getting ****ed that I said something negative about my school.</p>
<p>YES I had so much more fun this year than I did my freshman year. The first year is all about trying to find your friends and your scenes. By now, I’ve found those, and routinely have to turn down party offers because I’ll have multiple all over the off campus areas and just can’t make it to all of them.</p>
<p>And yes, UNC is not a party school. I don’t think anyone was trying to make that claim.</p>
<p>Have you thought about trying to get involved in Greek life? The people I know that party the most are involved in Greek life.</p>
<p>Tarheel, do you mean UMichigan or Michigan State?</p>
<p>UMichigan is really nice and good academically, like you said. I thought you meant MSU.</p>
<p>Well, you didn’t really say anything too negative about UNC…just that you weren’t having much fun there. Where do you live on campus? I could see that making a difference.</p>
<p>Man, don’t take some kind of tone with me or make fun of what I’m saying. I’m serious, there’ve been many a time where I’m in Davis studying on a Thursday night and I get texts about where I should be going, etc, etc, and have a hard time saying no. And Davis is always noticeably less dense with people on Thursdays compared to say, Sundays.</p>
<p>If the only way that you think you can have fun is to party, and you don’t want to party with Greek Life… I still think there are enough parties through clubs and organizations, etc, that you could find, and that’ll open up sophomore year. In my experience, sports teams party more than academic teams, not sure why.</p>
<p>If you want reaaally wild parties then I know maybe two groups on campus where that would be somewhat regular, you can PM me if you want to know. But this wild is kind of the opposite of frat wild.</p>
<p>I just don’t really know what you mean by fun - I have a lot of fun just doing stuff with clubs, and honestly I just don’t have a lot of time to party anymore, I’m trying to keep my GPA up and stay involved with campus, things add up quickly. But still, even when I’m not partying I’m having fun through the groups I’m involved with and just getting some hang out time with my friends. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong places?</p>
<p>Just to add, don’t say I’m “unaware” of how it is here when I’ve been at Chapel Hill a year longer than you have and had a brother go here before I did. I don’t mind you having a different perspective but you’re coming off as a jerk.</p>
<p>To specifically answer your question: I am a Senior, and yes, I’ve had progressively more fun every year. Freshman year I wasn’t all that happy, had trouble making friends quickly, etc. Sophomore year was better but still not amazing. The last two years have been awesome–this year I felt like I was living a Kenny Chesney song. Turning 21 and having all my friends turn 21 made things much more fun–I mainly just go out to bars now with friends, haven’t been to a fraternity party or any other super crowded “house” party since Sophomore year, and I can’t say I really miss that scene at all.</p>
<p>Thank you Whaltimore you are basically the only person to answer my question. and cloying im not saying you dont know what its like here, im saying you clearly dont know how different it is here from a lot of other large public schools. everything you are saying is correct about unc, but im talking comparatively. Yes UNC has a lot of fun things to do other than drinking, but im talking about the party scene. I do club basketball, thats fun and all, but on the weekends, its just not as fun as most schools. I do not have a biased opinion when i say this unlike most people that face that statement. I am not trying to come off as a jerk, you are just being very unaccepting of the fact that UNC is not the greatest place in the sense that im talking about.</p>
<p>Why would you pay to go to school in CA when you can go to UNC for free? That really makes no sense. If you were talking about some considerably lesser quality school as your in state option I might hedge a little but UNC vs UCLA/UCI???</p>
<p>Save you money for grad school where there isn’t much if any free tuition, mostly loans.</p>
<p>As cloying said, if you can’t have fun at UNC you can’t have fun anywhere, seriously!</p>
<p>unc isnt for everyone. i know numerous people who dont like it, many of which have or are transferring. one of the things i like least about carolina, is the fact that most people there are completely appalled at the fact that people actually dont like being at unc, and therefore put them down for feeling that way. if saying “if you cant have fun at unc you cant have fun anywhere” isnt doing that, please tell me how.</p>
<p>I have to agree with eadad. There is always so much going on at UNC, events for pretty much every interest, that I can’t believe that someone would come here and not be able to find their niche. As long as you are proactive about it, then this university has something for everyone.</p>
<p>Ok FORGET I EVEN POSTED HERE, YOU GUYS ARE ABSOLUTELY OBNOXIOUS! with the exception if whaltimore and bct, you all have awful reading comprehension problems. I NEVER said i wanted to go to school in CA, I dont know where you go that. and how is UNC free? I’m an OOS, its very expensive compared to the schools I passed up. I thank you bct for backing me on the fact that tons of UNC students are absolutey crazy for unc that they put people down.</p>
<p>The “if you can’t have fun at UNC you can’t have fun anywhere, seriously!” statement is absolutely absurd. I would like to state that I probably had way more fun than the average person in high school. I was the class clown, captain of my sports team, had many jobs, and did a lot of volunteering. I also partied a lot. I am very sociable if you are thinking that I am not or something. I have visited friends at Michigan, UMass, Qunnipiac, Loyola, and UNH this year alone, and I had more fun at all of those schools than I do every weekend here, with the exception of a few weekends. Stop getting mad cuz im saying its not that fun here.</p>
<p>The bars aren’t that good here. Most are very small, and theyre just not the typical college bar, because UNC isnt a bar school. I’m fine with that cuz a lot of schools aren’t bar schools. I wouldn’t want to go to a bar school.</p>
<p>I’m from the north, so frat life just isn’t for me. The parties, im not gonna get into that many cuz im a freshmen so all of my friends that are brothers don’t have too much pull yet.</p>
<p>The house parties are decent sometimes, but thats because everyone goes to the same parties. I know they will get better once my friends have their own places.</p>
<p>But the dorm life… thats just ridiculous how dead drinking is in the dorms is. If you think its crazy in the dorms, then seriously go to Michigan for a weekend (which isnt a worse school). I’m not gonna listen to you guys freak out about how unc isnt fun. because i have fun during the week, im in clubs, the name of the thread is party scene for a reason!</p>
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<p>I found this post (there were others for other schools) which indicates that you aren’t happy with your fit at UNC and are planning to transfer to another school. </p>
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<p>I can’t argue the point that not everyone is a fit for every school and UNC is no exception. That said, in looking at the list of schools that you have applied to, UNC could not be more different in almost every way and makes me wonder why or how you picked UNC in the first place?</p>
<p>I can appreciate you wanting to air “the other side” but it is important for those reading your posts to understand where you are coming from because there is obviously some bias and slant that would not otherwise necessarily be taken into consideration. It’s also not fair to any school to make generalizations about the academic or social climate after only one year, things really do change as you get into upper level classes at any school.</p>
<p>I do take issue with several of your comments about UNC. UNC is really not Greek focused; in fact it is Greek Lite when compared to virtually any other school in the South, Midwest (most LACs excluded) and especially to its closest peer, UVA. I also have a problem with your comment about it being too focused on grades and not being challenging. I know a good number of students and former students (recent grads) who came in with absolutely stellar credentials from top public and private schools, many of whom also turned down schools like HYPS to attend UNC. I can honestly say I have never heard one of them say that UNC was not challenging. I know they often worked their tails off and these are really smart kids; three are now in top ten Med Schools and two in top ten Law schools, one is at a top NY advertising agency and another on Wall St.</p>
<p>I can venture a guess that if you didn’t arrive with many APs and have been in mostly intro level classes that you may have found some of them to be less challenging than you might have imagined but your experience would be like that in most entry level classes anywhere. English 101 isn’t very different anywhere, seriously. I think perhaps size and overall fit are the real issues here which can be seen in looking at the schools you considered for transfer, and I won’t even try to minimize that aspect of things in your case. It’s important to note that there are often many people in smaller schools that feel the same way about being somewhere that is too small as well.</p>
<p>It is however, just as much of an overstatement for you to say that you know “numerous people” that don’t like UNC which would make it appear to be a school wide problem as it would be for anyone else to say that “everyone” will feel that UNC is a perfect fit 100 % of the time. UNC isn’t for everyone (but neither is Colby, Bowdoin or Bates…I could not have gotten my son to apply to any of those schools if his or my life depended on it) but for those who do find it a good fit, UNC can and usually does deliver an undergrad experience that is second to none.</p>
<p>My son graduated last May. He and many of his friends stayed in Chapel Hill as long as they could (late July/ early August) before starting on their next journeys. He and they have been back twice, once in the fall and once for Final Four weekend. Despite the fact that they hail from Texas, Georgia, New Jersey, NYC, Seattle, D.C., Maryland and Virginia they all bleed Carolina Blue.</p>
<p>I am truly sorry that UNC hasn’t worked out for you. I transferred in my freshman year as well (for very different reasons) and know that it is a difficult process and that starting over isn’t always easy. I sincerely hope that you find what you are looking for.</p>
<p>Tarheel, do you mean MSU or UMichigan?</p>
<p>I asked before, but I’m not sure if you saw that post. UNC is definitely better than MSU, but on par with UMichigan, which is a really nice school.</p>
<p>Yes, i attended UNC and was not happy at all. However, i disagree that i am overtly bias in any of my statements. in my last post i merely stated a fact, that carolina is not for everyone. and actually, my “numerous” i mean just that: numerous people. i did not say everyone, nor did i say a substantial amount. i know of four people just from my hs who have left unc with in the past year, for non-academic reasons… beacuse they did not like it.</p>
<p>i never said unc was a good choice for me (hence my transfering so quickly), although i promise that i havent posted half of the schools i applied to ever on this forum, so you really would have no idea.</p>
<p>your comment about greeak life may be true, however i stand by what i said beacause that has been my experience: no use in argueing when we obviously have differing opinions. </p>
<p>And your assumptions really could not be more wrong. I came in having taken the maximum number of APs i was able/allowed to fit into my schedule in hs. At unc i took 16 hours, when the regural is 15, and harder courses than most other freshman, and even sophomores i know, with few intro classes.</p>
<p>I have never said unc isnt a good school, i have merely (in previous posts) stated my belief, which is echoed by many friends at unc, that (a) unc really isnt extremely difficult to get into from in-state and (b) it is rather unchallenging. The latter belief was not my only reason for leaving, but it did contribute.</p>
<p>i have never said that unc is not right for anyone, i just said it isnt for everyone, because the vast majority of people affiliated with unc that have found out i did not like the school have made it seem almost criminal, or insane. and yes, that includes saying “if you cant have fun at unc you cant have fun anywhere.” its all well and nice that you say you realize that carolina isnt for everyone, but when your actions show you obviously believe otherwise, your words become meaningless.</p>
<p>Bct, why don’t you think it’s difficult to get in?</p>
<p>You should say: “It’s easy to get in IF you have really good grades, scores, and ECs.”</p>
<p>But even then, nothing is guaranteed. I’ve never heard someone say that about a top school…</p>
<p>i’m a freshman at unc also and can see where you’re coming from. i am out of state and DEFINITELY regret living on south campus. it’s miserably boring. living in granville would have been SO MUCH more fun. but you can’t really blame that on unc, that’s more our fault. </p>
<p>also, i’ve visited myf riends at other colleges (tennessee, georgia, auburn, alabama, and ole miss) and those schools are DEFINITELY more fun. no question. but comparing their bar scene to unc’s, i would say that they’re almost equal. seriously, you wouldn’t really know about the bar scene considering you don’t have a fake. it’s so fun! just get one and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>i also agree that the frats can be obnoxious. they’re always just brothers and freshman girls. thats another reason to venture to the bars.</p>
<p>i also agree that unc’s not that tough. i mean, it’s definitely harder than most big state schools, but it’s DEFINITELy nothing too challenging. i usually blow off a lot of classes and readings and have a 3.79…</p>
<p>that being said i absolutely LOVE unc. i can’t imagine myself anywhere else.</p>
<p>but i’ve definitely experienced your “the grass is greener on the other side” phenomenon when i’ve visited my friends. i eventually realized that i was just seeing the best times at those schools though.</p>
<p>stay at unc–you won’t regret it!!!it’s literally the most well rounded and best school in america!!!</p>
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<p>Who said UNC wasn’t fun? :p</p>
<p>when i say “good grades, SATs, etc” i dont mean outstanding i just mean decent-pretty good. i will definately admit that when i say its not difficult, that is somewhat relative, being compared to how difficult i THOUGHT it would be to get in. that belief also came about because i know a lot of people who were not expected to get into unc (because of its super high standards) that were accepted. im not saying anything against anyone, i just know a lot of people that if you saw their hs stats most people on here would probably be surprised they were accepted - i was, and so were a lot of ppl i talked to. im not trying to knock unc at all, i just think that in NC, UNC is way overrated in terms of difficulty of (a) gaining admission (for in-staters) and (b) its academics (i agree with the was “ubetteraccept_me” put it). all of these thoughts have even been discussed with, and agreed upon, with various friends of mine who are (happy) at UNC.</p>
<p>yes i meant UMich when i said Michigan, and I would like to thank every1 for actually getting this thread back onto topic. And bct i totally agree with you on the getting in part. It is difficult, but it is not as hard as I thought. Many people from out of state do get rejected with very good grades, but a lot get in with decent grades as long as you have a lot of extra curriculars. Also the work is not that hard here compared to my initial impression.</p>