<p>Top 3 with Emory and Yale (if I get in).
OOS, merit aid will play a role and UNC may be a little big for me.
So maybe.
Congrats to everyone who got in!</p>
<p>Sweeping stereotypes are never good. People who engage in using generalizations to define a group they know little about, or won’t take the effort to know more about, aren’t acting very “worldly”.</p>
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<p>I carefully worded my post, so as to not stereotype any group.</p>
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<p>I actually wasn’t really sure what you were trying to say in your post, but you were generalizing an opinion about instate students you know, to instate students you don’t know. You’re commenting on an 80% instate student population and a 20% OOS population. Obviously growing up in NC the instate students will have many things in common with each other. Out of state students come from many different states with the customs and experience from those states. I think it’s safe to say that any OOS student who travels to a state school that is in a different part of the country/world than where they are from, will be able to find students who seem less “worldly”, partly due to the fact those other students did not go out of state for college.</p>
<p>And my real annoyance on this thread is with the earlier poster on page 2, not with you.</p>
<p>“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>LOL!!!</p>
<p>If anyone is absolutely sure that they are not going to UNC, pleeease send them a respectful email declining admission. Your one seat will help someone else get off the wait-list, off the deferred list, or off the rejected list. I don’t think people consider this enough, but since I’ve been on both sides of the coin now (I was accepted last year and my boyfriend was deferred this year), I know that you may not think about this without a friendly reminder :-)</p>
<p>Camico - Understand your position…
D wants to wait, though, to hear back from RD schools (Vandy, WashU, UVA, Harvard,UA - possible $$) Interesting to see how many on this thread have same schools! She is really going to have to weigh alot of factors, so I don’t think she’ll have a decision until 4/30.</p>
<p>Of course I am attending! I could hold out for Duke or Wake Forest, but the pretentiousness that comes with the elitist societal implications of private and IV league universities is a gigantic turn off.
UNC is the best mix of a social scene, highly ranked academics, and a wonderful, beautiful, diverse campus.</p>
<p>UVA, Duke, UNC, USC, Vandy is my order. UVA is my dream school, Duke is the Southern Ivy and parents would go into debt for me to go there, UNC is the perfect mix (though its not cheap by means, it is one of the cheapest on my list), USC I could possibly get Merit Aid (though it’s by no means a given) and Vandy is just chillen there lol.</p>
<p>I’ll seriously consider UNC if I get the Thomas Wolfe scholarship; otherwise, I’m probably headed OOS, perhaps to UChicago.</p>
<p>DS honestly does not know where he’ll end up. A lot depends on what sort of scholarship $$ the various institutions offer, but a lot also depends on “fit.” We hope to visit several of the in-state universities that have accepted him (including UNC) within the next month or so. That will help DS decide.</p>
<p>We are unusual, perhaps, among CC-ers in that we would actually consider a less-prestigious school than Chapel Hill (gasp, oh the horror! ;)) if it provided a better fit. DS is seriously considering UNC Asheville and even Western Carolina (where he has been admitted as an Honors Scholar [1300 minimum SAT required] with a pretty decent scholarship). He’s also considering Alabama, which offers full rides to National Merit Finalists. One of his criteria is a good classics program (WCU offers no classics at all), so that may narrow the list to UA, UNCA, and Chapel Hill. At this point, we just don’t know. It’s up in the air. (Heavy sigh.)</p>
<p>LadyD,</p>
<p>Send me a PM. I’m very familiar with UA, and would be happy to answer any questions about it that you might have.</p>
<p>As far as the rest of it goes, colleges are all about fit. And fit refers to a variety of things, including programs of interest, financial aid/status, and the campuses themselves. I’m glad you’re planning on visiting a bunch of the schools before deciding because every campus has a distinct “feel”, which is impossible to describe in words but definitely exists.</p>
<p>packerfan, I will most definitely PM you during my lunch break. Thanks!!</p>
<p>My DS may choose full tuition scholarshipat Pitt over UNC - we’ll see what happens with other schools end of March/April 1</p>
<p>Is it even possible to get off the rejected list?</p>
<p>^ What are you talking about?</p>
<p>^Please see Message # 46 written by Camico391, “Your one seat will help someone else get off the wait-list, off the deferred list, or off the rejected list.”</p>
<p>I caution you about being optimistic about getting off of the rejected list. Granted it is possible for it to happen, but only if enough people who are on the accepted or wait-listed/ deferred list decide to go somewhere else. I hate to be negative, but I have never heard of someone getting into UNC or really any college after being rejected right off the bat.</p>
<p>It won’t/can’t happen. The size of the waitlist specifically keeps the possibility of people going to other colleges in mind.</p>
<p>That’s not what I meant by “off the rejected list,” I meant if someone was barely on the fence between rejected and accepted, they could end up being accepted if UNC has a better feel for how many students will end up matriculating and how many students they can accept. Sorry for the confusion :)</p>