UNC sees spike in early admission applications

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>An excerpt from today's Daily Tar Heel</p>

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An unusually large number of early admission applications will make the UNC admissions office work harder to meet notification deadlines in the coming months.</p>

<p>The number of early applications has increased by 15 percent from last year, said Steve Farmer, director of admissions.</p>

<p>“The increase is something we have seen over the past few years,” Farmer said. “But we have not seen huge one-year increases; usually the increases are in the 3 to 5 percent range.”</p>

<p>The official deadline for early applications was extended to last Wednesday because of problems with the online server.</p>

<p>As of midnight Wednesday, the admissions office had received 13,525 applications for early admission, 1,750 more than last fall.</p>

<p>Farmer said it is difficult to know why the number of early applications has increased this year.</p>

<p>“One thing that has changed is that we get so many online applications,” Farmer said. “The past few years’ increase in applications is a function of increased online options and increased popularity.”</p>

<p>This year, 98 percent of applicants submitted their paperwork online.

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Farmer said UNC has drawn huge crowds at high school events and that other factors could make UNC an attractive choice, especially for in-state students.</p>

<p>“We always work hard to recruit in North Carolina, but the current economy may make us more appealing to North Carolinians than out-of-state students,” Farmer said.</p>

<p>But the statistics of students who applied to UNC this fall show a larger increase in out-of-state applicants.</p>

<p>This year, 6,452 students from outside of North Carolina applied for early admission to UNC, a 24 percent increase from last year.

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<p>Daily</a> Tar Heel - UNC sees spike in early admission applications</p>

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<p>AHHHHH this is not looking good for me as an out of state student....</p>

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<p>I'm a freakin INTERNATIONAL student! 13525 applicants! NOOO! I hope I'm the only international student.</p>

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<p>lol i'm afraid.. I'm applying next year so it will be more competitve?????????</p>

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<p>so now it's not just difficult for an OOS student to be admitted....it's impossible....</p>

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<p>It would be interesting to see the breakdown of IS and OOS applicants. My guess is that IS will be affected more---top students that might have opted before to privates instate like Duke, Wake, Davidson, etc, will now put more interest on UNC due to price differences.</p>

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<p>i agree. i don't think oos would be so much of an increase because oos price at unc is close to any private school.</p>

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<p>It's because of our basketball team. :-p</p>

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<p>eivis</p>

<p>I'm not sure where you are getting your facts but at $20,630 annual tuition for an OOS student, UNC is not really close in price to what would be considered peer private schools and in fact is more than 40 percent less expensive than the private schools that are considered by most OOS students. Here are a few tuition only examples: Penn $37,526; Duke $37,630; Columbia $37,470; Emory $35,800.</p>

<p>UNC is a great value which is why Kiplinger's has once again rated it the number one value in college education.</p>

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<p>The stats are posted in the article. The increase in OOS apps was 24% over last year. The TOTOAL increase was 15% over last year. Of the 13,000 apps EA, around $6,500 were OOS. Therefore, the In state increase would be around 5% over last year.</p>

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<p>ahhhh this makes me really sad :(
i bet OOS acceptance rates will be in the teens this year...yikes.</p>

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<p>252525...why would the state quota thing increase...?</p>

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<p>What do you guys think of IS acceptance?</p>

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<h1>eivis</h1>

<p>I'm not sure where you are getting your facts but at $20,630 annual tuition for an OOS student, UNC is not really close in price to what would be considered peer private schools and in fact is more than 40 percent less expensive than the private schools that are considered by most OOS students. Here are a few tuition only examples: Penn $37,526; Duke $37,630; Columbia $37,470; Emory $35,800.</p>

<p>UNC is a great value which is why Kiplinger's has once again rated it the number one value in college education."</p>

<p>EaDad,</p>

<p>The $20,000 UNC oos tuition figure is about the same as the tuition for my daughter's private high school last year. Can you believe it? </p>

<p>I'm just glad my daughter applied to UNC last year. It was hard enough getting in.</p>

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<p>I'm one of those 6452! <em>points</em> guh yep, not getting in. But it's still neat to see myself in a big statistic like that. ... Is that weird?</p>

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<p>Nrdbs4</p>

<p>Didn't you tell me that she's a former Daisy, or am I mistaken?</p>