<p>Congrats to everyone. Feel free to PM me about any questions about campus life at Carolina. I am filled with pride for my fellow heels and everything that goes on at the thrill. I got my BS in Psych / Asian Studies (Chinese) so specialized in those areas but took a lot of different courses and did a bunch of random stuff for the past four years here if you have any questions about that, too.</p>
<p>Visit visit visit!! And try and visit in March or April… if you visit then you’ll reject every other school you’ve ever seen. I have two older siblings and we all went on college tours. At the end of the day, I saw 35 campuses, and Carolina was the most beautiful to me. Well. Tied with Stanford. :-)</p>
<p>For those who consider UNC, please visit before you commit. Our tour confirmed the gross disparity between the intellect of in-state versus out-of-state students. The in-state kids could barely put sentences together. Since they make up about 80% of the population, you’d do well to reconsider if you’re a serious academic.</p>
<p>I’m an out of state student and, unless they give me darn good financial aid (which they haven’t always been known to do), then I’m not sure that my family can swing it. I’d absolutely love to attend, though.</p>
<p>readerman - Look closely at the stats provided in this link that I already also posted on another thread. You can see at each SAT level of achievement there are actually more instate students compared to out of state (I’m not talking percentage, just numbers). I’m pretty sure there are plenty of students who can put sentences together.</p>
<p>I’m still waiting to hear back from UVA, VT, Cornell, BC (EA deferred), and Vanderbilt. If I get into UVA, I’ll be going there because of in-state tuition, but I was sooo happy to get into UNC–I was literally freaking out all day (: If UNC gives me a good financial package then it’s a possibility.</p>
<p>I do have a question about those stats. How are there more OOS public school grads than OOS students. Would it be like someone who moved senior year but their permanent residence was still in NC? The difference is about 80, which confuses me a bit.</p>
<p>jessimo - I could be wrong about this, but I believe the 2010 stats still reflect the OOS loophole NC just eliminated for UNC. I believe OOS athletes were counted as instate, so they would be under instate stats, with an out of state graduation. I’m pretty sure the 2011-2012 school year will be the first year that this is not allowed. If anyone knows anymore about this, please feel free to inform.</p>
<p>What an incredibly offensive and embarrassing statement. That’s just the kind of ignorance that makes the world go round, isn’t it? Bigot that you are, you probably didn’t think for one second what a slap in the face that is to native North Carolinians. Or maybe you don’t care?</p>
<p>Despite being born and raised in North Carolina (and attending only public schools during that period, mind you) I somehow wasn’t too stupid to make my way to Carolina. I had plenty of choices for undergrad but happily chose to attend my state’s public school. When I showed up to Carolina four years ago, there were plenty of out of state students who were total jerks to me despite the fact that I was probably in the 99th percentile for the amount of credit hours I was coming in with from AP scores and other college courses. One out of stater even insisted upon meeting me that his SAT score was probably higher than mine. Mine was about 200 points higher though I wasn’t crass enough to share it.</p>
<p>I’m not an exception. I’m incredibly proud of what goes on at this university and there is no intellectual disparity between in and out of state students. I assure you. </p>
<p>And… ■■■■■■■■ as I may be, I somehow managed to graduate Phi Beta Kappa and gain acceptance to several of the country’s top law schools. Granted, learning how to read and write during college was a cumbersome task, but us Southerners are used to hard work! It was no more difficult than the pig farming I was more accustomed to.</p>
<p>Glad you had your eyes open during your visit.</p>
<p>As an out of state accepted student, i would hope no out of state student pulls that kind of crap again cloying. I hope that kindof arrogance does not characterize most out of state students, but if it does I will just have to make some nice in-state friends. I love Carolina, and that kindof disrespectful attitude was not at all what I experienced on my visits. I plan on attending and I hope I can set a good example for any out of state students that think they are entitled to something.</p>
<p>It definitely is not the norm, especially after grades first come out. In staters don’t have a chip on their shoulder and OOSers are respectful in general, too. The whole issue is overblown on this forum all the time… or at least I say it’s overblown until someone comes out saying that in staters are too stupid to put sentences together. You’ll have to excuse me for being incredibly offended by that nonsense.</p>
<p>Congrats on getting into Carolina and how wonderful that you’re already decided! I matriculated before I’d even heard back from some schools. I just had the Tar Heel love in my heart, haha.</p>
<p>At the risk of sounding “state-ist” let me just say that I have not yet found an OOS student who isn’t “worldly-wise”, while I have found in-state people who aren’t. Worldly-wise definitely isn’t the right word, the word I’m looking for would imply a state of “knowing” (intentionally ambiguous). This is just something I’ve noticed, take it for what its worth.</p>
<p>EDIT: And feel free to flame me. I can see how in-staters would be offended by what I wrote above, though this was not my intention.</p>
<p>We’re still weighing our options. DS will wait to see what scholarship offers he may get before making any decisions where he may go to learn to read.</p>
<p>The attitude shouldn’t be that oos students are smarter-mainly because they AREN’T. I’m oos and I’m certain that, although I’ve been very proud of my accomplishments, there are a lot of in-state students who are smarter than I am. The only truly stupid people are the ones who make unsupported statements such as those that have sparked this off-topic argument. I’m glad that this person chose not to attend UNC, I’d be ashamed to know that this person was out representing the university in the way that they might have chosen to.
Instead, why don’t UNC students just accept the fact that ALL tar heels are amazingly smart and that anyone who doesn’t go to UNC is just lame. The end ;)</p>
Feel free to PM me about any questions about campus life at Carolina. I am filled with pride for my fellow heels and everything that goes on at the thrill. I got my BS in Psych / Asian Studies (Chinese) so specialized in those areas but took a lot of different courses and did a bunch of random stuff for the past four years here if you have any questions about that, too.</p>