<p>I posted this in UNC CH 2014 by mistake....hopefully this one will end up in the parent forum!</p>
<p>My daughter is currently on the wait list an UNC-CH. We are assuming this is a no and making final choices of other schools. She is planning on trying to transfer to UNC-CH next year after a year at another university. Her current choices are:</p>
<p>UNC-Greensboro (UNCG)
UNC-Charlotte (UNCC)
UNC-Asheville (UNCA)
App State in Boone (ASU)</p>
<p>She isn't thrilled about ASU after visiting...it's a bit too rural for her. However, it has the highest SAT scores on average of the group.</p>
<p>Here's the question. Does she increase her chances of transferring in to UNC-CH by choosing one school over the next? I know her HS grades and SAT scores will still count...she has a 4.3 GPA and SAT scores of 640 reading, 570 math, and 660 writing. Any advice on the best choice to help her transfer in next year?</p>
<p>The chances of transferring from all are probably about the same. They all share about the same academic prestige IMO. Well, I could be wrong, but then again I’ve been a student in Charlotte since 9th grade and go to UNCC now.</p>
<p>If App. State is too rural, then UNC Asheville will have about the same effect. Asheville and Boone are practically right next to each other. I’ve never been to UNC Greensboro so I can’t really comment, but UNC Charlotte is in the largest city in the state, so it’s by no means “rural” (almost twice as large as the next biggest city, actually). Also, UNC Charlotte has rolling admissions so getting in would be a breeze (whether that’s a good thing or not is to be debated). </p>
<p>If you have any more questions, I’ll try to help as much as possible. :)</p>
<p>EDIT: 4.3 GPA and pretty good SAT scores waitlisted…I’m assuming OOS right? That’s pretty good IS and would, under most circumstances, be accepted.</p>
<p>Your daughter should assume that she will not ever get into UNC when she decides where to go first. That way, if she does NOT get in, she’ll be happy about her next option.</p>
<p>Each one of those schools has a few things it specializes in and is really great at. Off the top of my head, if you’re interested in drama, journalism, or music, UNCG is great. I’ve heard their business program’s getting a lot better, too. App State is incredible for education. I know those schools simply don’t have the rep that Chapel Hill does, but a great education can be found at any one of them. If it were me, I’d probably go to UNCG or UNC-A, just based off my tours of them. They don’t seem as party-school to me and I know plenty of people at both who are hard working.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input xMastemah. We are in-state, so not making it in was tough to take.</p>
<p>She’s been accepted at UNCC. I’ve heard from a number of people that it is a bit of a suit case school…that many go home on the weekend. Any thoughts or comments on that impression?</p>
<p>Thanks cloying…we agree. This choice is meant to be someplace she can be happy for 4 years. However, we don’t want to raise any roadblocks to her transferring to UNC-CH if she can.
Thanks for your impressions of UNCG and UNCA. It helps!</p>
<p>I’m gonna have to say her chances are low. Being IS and not getting in is surprising. However when transferring, state of residence doesn’t matter. SO she’ll be competing against kids from OOS who are very strong and couldn’t get in the first try but still have dreams of going to UNC CH. It’s always worth a shot, but assume she will not get in as a transfer and to enjoy whatever college she chooses.</p>
<p>UNCC has a great business programme, and its teaching school is either equal to or better than App, depending on who you talk to ,and the reason people from UNCC go home on the weekend is because the vast majority of people there are from the Charlotte area. </p>
<p>Also, my reasoning for not going there (other than it being 5 min away from my house) was that when you go to a school, and over half the student body has t-shirts from a different school on at any given time, it says something.</p>
<p>unc4me: You should be happy she was wait listed. We have many 4.6+, 1300+ fantastic EC kids from our in-state high school who were denied at CH this year. It has gotten crazy competitive.</p>
<p>The problem with planning on a transfer is that she will not be given in-state consideration for her transfer. So she will be competing with all of those high achieving out-of-staters when she does apply. So she needs to do everything she can to excel at her next college.</p>
<p>UNC-C is suppose to be a suitcase school. I am not sure she will have that typical college experience there. ASU is a good school and kids enjoy it. But it is also the second choice school for a lot of in-state kids. So i would imagine UNC-CH gets a lot of transfer requests from App.</p>
<p>I just want to mention that it <em>is</em> possible – a friend of mine did her first two years at UNC Greensboro, and transferred to Chapel Hill for her final 2 years.</p>
<p>Quite a lonely experience though – it took her a little while to make friends. In the end, she was really happy she did it.</p>
<p>The atmosphere at UNCG is quite different-- Greensboro feels more like a real town that Chapel Hill, and it’s a bit grittier.</p>
<p>My friend said she encountered a bit of resentment – of the ‘you think you’re too good for us do you?’ sort – when she told her Greensboro friends about her transfer application. But they were all happy for her, more or less.</p>
<p>One thing to do is go to a CC for 2 years. In such a case, UNC has a liberal transfer in policy after 2 years. I know that isn’t what she wants. Also, consider a gap year, do something interesting, and retaking the SAT’s and trying next year plus apply to a safety such as UNC-Wilmington or NC state that are not suitcase schools. On her list so far, App and UNC-Ashville willl give her the best chance of a non-suitcase school</p>
<p>I saw a link from someone here that took you to a report that detailed UNC-CH admissions information. It had number applied, where they were from…etc…it was a big document. I’m pretty sure it was a pdf with at least 20 pages.</p>
<p>Does anyone have that link? I can’t find the original thread or message with the link and I’d love to see if it says where their transfer students are coming from.</p>
<p>I think you stand the best chance transferring from the community college system. UNC holds a certain number of transfer spots for cc transfers and works with acclimating them to the bigger university system. The issue of leaving a group is absent in this route. I teach at a CC and my UNC hopefuls are awaiting their transfer decisions today. While with us, they have formed a tight group and have been very supportive of each other.</p>
<p>Of the state schools you mention, with your daughter’s stats, UNCG is a possibility in that your D could live in their honors program or in the Warren Ashby residential college (check their website out, the kids from Ashby go on to great graduate school programs).</p>
<p>Another thought, you may want to wait to transfer until you are a junior. Several students from my D’s HS tried to transfer into UNC from NC State and UNC-A after their freshman year (GPA’s 3.7 and 3.85 at the other UNC schools). Both were turned down (had good HS stats also). They have reapplied this year and have gotten the impression that their transfer possibilities are much better as juniors.</p>
<p>You may have no worries, with stats like hers, there is a good chance she will make it off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Just to reassure you…my daughter was in the same situation. She was deferred last year and then waitlisted. She was crushed. She went to her back up school…App State and loved it. She had great, attentive professors and was very successful. Her dream has always been to go to Carolina, so she applied and got in! She will enroll in the fall. She had good grades at App all A’s and one A- (can’t remember the exact GPA.) The key to that was that she always attended class and did her homework. So, it can be done. I will say that I love Appalachian State. I am a UNC grad myself, but App State greets its students with amazing hospitality. App treated us with the approach, “We are so happy you chose us!” We have been completely underwhelmed with the welcome from UNC. It has been more like, “We are an amazing institution and you are so lucky to be here.” I am sure she will love UNC, but I must say I am sad to be leaving ASU. Good luck and don’t give up!</p>