<p>@HLedbetter:</p>
<p>UNCC couldn’t be THAT bad, could it? On my campus visit, the students seemed like regular college students hanging out and enjoying things as much as students at any other school. Based on the image of UNCC that your post paints, I would imagine the Charlotte students would have been grabbing me by the shoulder and warning me to get out while I still could.</p>
<p>As for academic reputation, I don’t think anyone here is going to claim that UNCC competes with schools like Chapel Hill or NC State. But the admissions standards for UNC Charlotte are still more stringent than those of ECU, WCU, and UNCG. That would lead me to believe that few people would consider UNCC’s academics to actually be “bad” per se.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to say that you’re lying, but you have to understand that I’m getting very mixed reviews of UNC Charlotte. Half of the reviews I see online claim the school is horrible and a huge mistake; while the other half assure me that UNCC is a very pleasant school, and that the others are just trolls trying to make Charlotte look bad. The positive reviews also note that many of the detracting claims are made by individuals who graduated from UNCC years ago, and are unaware of what the school is like today. I simply don’t know who to believe. </p>
<p>Right now, I am strongly considering UNC Charlotte alongside Appalachian State for enrollment this fall. Is there any other advice you could give me on the subject? I don’t want to make the wrong choice for my future.</p>
<p>Read the blog. It certainly opened my eyes with its verifiable, responsible news reports:</p>
<p><a href=“http://thinkingofattendinguncc.blogspot.com/2012/06/for-those-who-are-considering-attending.html[/url]”>http://thinkingofattendinguncc.blogspot.com/2012/06/for-those-who-are-considering-attending.html</a></p>
<p>It chronicles about six months of crime in and around UNCC. It is sad to think that the city has allowed University City to become a ghetto.</p>
<p>I was a little curious about some of these posts on crime rate being so high. I did a little digging. There was an interesting website that you could find crime rating for all colleges. It was not selecting one event or one year to determine the rating. The crime rate for UNCC was a D+. However, NCS was a D+, UNC Chapel Hill was a D, and ECU was a D. My hubby graduated from UNCC with a math degree and computer science degree. We are looking at UNCC for my DS as one of his IS selections. He wants to go to USCarolina or UA but if he does not get the scholarships then he will go to an IS school. USC received a C- and UA received a C-. IS schools are still on the list. Sad to say in today’s world crime can happen anywhere. Being aware of your surroundings and being smart can help you anywhere you go, whether it is in college or on a road trip. Purdue University had a C- and look what happened there recently. </p>
<p>I had to laugh. Yale and Harvard both received an F and are part of the top 100 most dangerous campus. </p>
<p>Gosh this is from so long ago and hate to bring it up again but does anyone know whether UNCC offers language, public relations, and/or international affairs programs?
Not sure about it being a ‘commuter’ school but I’m very interested to hear more. Thanks:)</p>
<p>I know several students at UNCC. Some of them decided on UNCC when they didn’t get in to Chapel Hill or State. Some of them chose Charlotte as their #1. Some students from the private high school my kids attend were denied. It’s hard when you’re competing against a school as outstanding as Chapel Hill (ranked by some as the best value in the country) - UNCC is not very likely to ever get to #1 in NC public universities, but is still better than some other state’s top schools. Yes, the admission standards are lower at Charlotte than at Chapel Hill or State, but again, that’s because Chapel Hill and State (especially in engineering) have high bars. They’re certainly not out recruiting criminals off the streets. The kids I know that went there, and their parents, never expressed any concerns over safety other than normal concerns for suburban kids living in a city for the first time. Unfortunately crime happens on every college campus. It does sound like UNCC is responsive when it does happen, which is what you hope for. All of the students I know there live on campus and rarely come home on weekends. And the parents recommend the school to other parents.</p>
<p>I hafta correct the record. There were FIVE rapes at UNCC in 2012, four in women’s dormitories, another in a busy class room building. There were a couple on campus last year. There was one this spring semester. UNCC is in a really bad neighborhood. Last week, thugs robbed people at gunpoint in their own apartment. This week, there was a Big shootout at the Forty Niner apartments. Last night, somebody shot up somebody’s house near campus. You can’t use the gym unless you can find a locker. If you leave anything out, it’ll be stolen. I quit going there because it stunk really bad. There was a meningitis problem associated with the gym a few years back.</p>
<p>If you want to live off-campus, you’ll probably have to share an apartment with a drug dealer. Yeah, it’s that bad. Check out the website called “Thinking of Attending UNCC? Think again” or something like that you can find it on google. </p>
<p>I thought that being in a school with a football team would be exciting. I couldn’t even get a ticket to the first game last year. Everybody pays like $300.00 in activity fees, but less than a third of the students can even get a ticket to a game. Add that to the INSANE $550.00 parking fee. Unless you get to campus before 7:00am you might not find a parking space. And if you live on or near campus, you NEED a car because shopping is expensive near the university, and there’s NOTHING TO DO on or near campus. </p>
<p>I’m out of UNCC. The area is too dangerous, and the program that I’m in isn’t good. I found this forum to check out another university, but I thought I’d give my input. Everything I say can be verified. Check out the website.</p>
<p>One more thing. people who have a couple hundred posts here pretend to be parents. Why would parents continue to write about UNCC after their kids are enrolled? I think that UNCC 's PR department works overtime to monitor the negative comments about the rathole called University City.</p>