<p>Found this preliminary update for the newest freshman class - 2015. I also included last year's stats I could find.</p>
<p>Updated Aug. 18, 2011
Posted Aug. 17, 2011
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<p>The Class of ’15</p>
<pre><code>23,733 applied for admission {{23,271 last year}}
7,450, or 31.3 percent, were admitted {{32.5% last year}}
3,990, or 53.5 percent, are expected to enroll {{52.4% last year}}
58 percent female, 42 percent male {{60.1:39.9 last year}}
18.3 percent of those enrolling are the first in their families to go to college {{18.1% last year}}
1810 to 2080: range of the middle 50 percent of SAT scores (perfect is 2400) {{1200-1410 last year out of 1600}}}
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<p>Admitted freshmen come from 95 N.C. counties, 41 states and the District of Columbia and 21 other countries</p>
<p>Of those who reported their graduating class ranks:</p>
<pre><code>42.5 percent were in the top 10 {{{42% last year}}}
12 percent were first or second {{{11.9% last year}}}
79.7 percent were in the top 10 percent {{{78.2% last year}}}
53 percent have traveled outside the U.S.
16 percent are fluent in a language other than English
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<p>Source: Preliminary numbers as of mid-August, from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.</p>
<p>Edit: To me it looks like applications went up only slightly but yield was up so admission rates were lower. More balanced M:F ratio. More first generation students enrolling. I can't say anything definitive about the SATs because of the 1600 vs 2400 scale, but percentage of students at the top of their class appears to have gone up slightly.</p>
<p>do you have a link or a source as to where you got this? I’m interested in taking a look.</p>
<p>Someone posted a while back that the 2015 class was the highest rated class ever at UNC.</p>
<p>Sure! I usually do link when I post some new data but I was having trouble with the alumni site. </p>
<p>Here’s the address:
[UNC</a> General Alumni Association :: The Class of 2015 |](<a href=“Carolina Alumni”>http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=8415)</p>
<p>I think that should work for non-members.</p>
<p>@Stanforddad: That doesn’t surprise me! I’ve been looking at trends and UNC, like other top schools, is getting better/harder to get into every year. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if the Class of 2016 continued this pattern since UNC just joined the Common App for next year’s class (2012-2013). Michigan did it last year and received about 20% more apps and their admit rate dropped from 50% to 40% in just one year. I have heard of similar admissions-jolts at other schools.</p>
<p>I found an SAT breakdown by sub score as well as the ACT figures.
[UNC</a> News - UNC Fall 2011 Fact Sheet](<a href=“http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4691/75/]UNC”>http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4691/75/)</p>
<p>I included in {{{ }}}} last year’s class.</p>
<p>SAT Scores
Critical reading: 590-700 {{{590-700 last year}}}}
Writing: 580-690 {{{{580 / 680}}}}}
Math: 610-710 {{{620 / 710 last year}}}</p>
<p>**Critical reading is identical, Writing is 10 pts lower on the 75th percentile, Math is 10 pts higher on the 25th percentile</p>
<p>ACT Scores
The middle 50 percent of applicants taking the ACT scored between 28 and 32.
{{{last year was 27-31}}}}}</p>
<p>***ACT scores are 1 pt (out of 36) higher on the 25th and 75th percentile</p>
<p>We attended Parent orientation @ CTOPS & during one of the sessions, one of the Deans who spoke began her presentation by telling us that the incoming Freshman class…class of
2015 has the distinction of being the highest ranked class statistically in UNC CH
history. She quoted some of these stats along with stats on # of Valedictorians & Salutatorians & class ranks. They were impressive stats.</p>
<p>this is fantastic news, I’m deciding b/w michigan and UNC but looks like UNC clearly has the better student body. Hopefully I can get accepted and be a proud student of UNC engineering!!</p>
<p>^UNC doesn’t offer engineering because of a non-compete clause with NC State.</p>
<p>I think you’re wrong, my friends say that UNC has one of the best engineering programs in the world.</p>
<p>“glassesarechic” is correct. UNC does not offer traditional engineering (mechanical, electrical, etc.) because of the non-compete with NC State. The following are the only two engineering departments I am aware of at UNC:</p>
<p>1) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING. However, per the UNC Website, it is a joint department shared with NC State. This is necessary because NC State does not have a Medical School (because of the non-compete, I suspect): </p>
<p>“The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is an academic department co-located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NC State University and was established on December 1, 2003, linking the School of Medicine at UNC-CH to the College of Engineering at NC State. At NC State, we currently offer a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a graduate minor. At UNC-CH, we offer the BME concentration in the Applied Sciences undergraduate degree program. On both campuses, we offer joint MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering. The department has administrative offices on both campuses (NCSU: 4130 Engineering Building III; UNC-CH: 152 MacNider Hall).”</p>
<p>2) ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING.</p>
<p>so they have one of the best biomedical engineering schools in the world, am i correct? b/c i thought they also had one of the top nuclear engineering schools…</p>
<p>I am not certain about the quality of the Biomedical Engineering department because I have not done the research. Likewise, I have not researched NC State’s Nuclear Engineering Department. UNC is a wonderful school but it is Michigan that has the very highly-regarded engineering program. There was a LONG Michigan vs. UNC thread some months back that will give you a good sense of the pros and cons of each school. The consensus, I think, was that UNC has many advantages over Michigan, including quality of life…for example, a wonderful climate during the school year vs. the sub-Arctic 
But, if you want to major in engineering, Michigan is unquestionably the place to go.</p>
<p>At UNC, you can major in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Material Science.</p>
<p>@Meadow, but UNC’s usnews ranking will be higher soon, so doesn’t that make UNC’s engineering school better?</p>
<p>Thank you! I was beginning to think that I had been dreaming that UNC has no engineering school :-)</p>
<p>I must admit I was surprised by some of these stats- I thought they’d be better. 60% of UNC students were outside the top 10 of their graduating class?</p>
<p>12% are in the top 2 of their graduating class… do they publish stats about how many were in the top 1?</p>
<p>I’d say these numbers are about what I expected… all of the numbers are slightly better than last year. </p>
<p>[UNC</a> General Alumni Association :: The Class of 2014 |](<a href=“Carolina Alumni”>http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?SID=7821) Class of 2014 statistics. </p>
<p>Percentage of students in the top 10%, percentage of students in the top 10 rank and the percentage of students ranked first or second are all slightly higher. On top of that, more students applied, acceptance rate went down slightly and the yield rate remained strong. Can’t really compare the SAT scores since this is the first year that the writing section was required.</p>
<p>My friends tell me I should take the SAT and try to get a 2400 on it, because UNC is really competitive. Would that be enough for UNC, because my friends tell me it is a difficult school to get in to, and even more competitive than Harvard. </p>
<p>My friends also tell me that I am a shoo-in for Harvard. What do you think? </p>
<p>I think I am going to go with UNC, because it has better students than Harvard. Don’t you think? I am pretty sure it’s going to beat out Harvard this year in the US News college rankings.</p>