<p>My son is an Econ Maj. who attended west coast college prep HS - 3.7 GPA. He had hours and hours of homework each day and on weekends. </p>
<p>I want him to have time for some fun at University. </p>
<p>He has it narrowed down to UNC-Chapel Hill or U of Florida in Gainesville. </p>
<p>He plans on grad school JD/MBA.</p>
<p>ANY INFO / HELP APPRECIATED !!!</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill is quite difficult to get into from out of state. Large numbers of people apply for the relatively small number of places that are not reserved for North Carolina residents.</p>
<p>So your son may want to consider some additional schools as well.</p>
<p>they're both fun schools and he shouldn't have a hard time finding something to do, given their student body size, but UNC - CH is the better school. Florida is also making its way up, but UNC-CH is widely considered as one of the best state schools. As the above poster said, it's pretty hard to get in OOS. I'm not too sure about Florida, but it's public as well so there is certainly a buffer against OOS students. What state is your son a resident of? If he's at a west coast prep school, he'd have a much better chance at Cali schools (which are better than Florida and UNC-CH)...but that'd only be if he's in Cali.</p>
<p>UNC is in my opinion in top five publics in the nation. but with (i believe?) a whopping 82% of incoming spots reserved for in-state kids, you have to bring near-Ivy stats to get in.</p>
<p>Pete:</p>
<p>FYI.</p>
<p>Two threads on the same topic, esp. in the same forum, is one thread too many. :D</p>
<p>sorry tsdad... you're right but after my son showed me how to log in he was off to class and in attempting to learn to use this site yesterday.. i goofed up. Thankfully my son is much smarter than his mom and lots of schools want him with his near perfect SATs etc. Again, apologies!</p>
<p>petescoffee - My son is a junior econ major at UF, also with his eye on law school after graduation. He was accepted as an out-of-stater at UNC with a large scholarship, probably based mostly on his perfect SAT. However, he chose to go to UF with a NMF/Bright Futures full ride. </p>
<p>Socially the schools are very similar, but UNC is the widely considered to be the better school academically. Has he visited either campus? A lot depends on your finances, too. You don't mention where you live, but if you're a FL resident, UF's price is hard to beat. </p>
<p>With his GPA and SATs, he will do well wherever he goes. He can certainly get an excellent economics education at UF (as well as grad and law school, for that matter) if he wants to. The opportunities are there.</p>
<p>patsmom,</p>
<p>If money was not a factor ... would your son have chosen UNC over UF? </p>
<p>Thank you very very much for your time.</p>
<p>watkins - I really don't know the answer to that one. He was on the fence between the 2 schools right up until the last minute. We were willing to pay for UNC -- in fact, we WANTED him to go to UNC. I thought it was important for him to go out of state, just for the experience of living somewhere different. But I think that in the end, he wanted to go where his friends would be. Bad reason to choose a college, in my opinion, but it was his choice, his life.</p>