<p>What are the biggest complaints/issues about UNC-CH? What would you change about the campus/academics/etc?</p>
<p>Hi AP-mom,
I did get my scholarship envelope from Carolina. I got $2,500, renewable for four years. My stats are similar to your daughter's stats. Top of the class, other outrageous stats that I have worked so hard for. I am grateful for the award, but a little disappointed, to be honest.
Would I change something about Carolina? I haven't experienced it yet, but the Scholarship Day really got me "up there"! My folks were there! We were so excited!! Then, I got my nice reward. It is nice, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't pass up on it. I just expected a bit more for a Carolina girl, and for how hard I have worked.
"Why do you build me up buttercup, just to let me down..........???."
That I would change. I'll still probably go there. Dunno, I was really sold on them BEFORE Scholarship Day. The day has almost had the reverse effect on me. Sad, but true.</p>
<p>powderpuff,</p>
<p>Try not to get too down on UNC because it did not grant the scholarship dollars you would have liked. Scholarship decisions can be very unpredictable. To be awarded one in any amount is quite an achievement.</p>
<p>Tyr,
Your message has so much wisdom in it!!<br>
I have always loved Carolina, and their award is very kind. I'm looking at things in a whole new light, and I'm very proud to have an award and to be admitted into the Honors Program at this outstanding University!
Thanks so much.</p>
<p>Interesting thread topic. I too would like to hear from current students what things they would like to see different at Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>I do not know for certain,but I suspect that a male with similiar stats might have gotten more $ as an attempt to attract more males to this 60% female campus.</p>
<p>Interesting thought garrity. Do you think males have an edge on admittance as freshmen or transfers?</p>
<p>mkm: I heard an interesting panel discussion on NPR about a year ago, which included the Directors of Admission from UNC-CH; Duke; NCSU; and maybe a couple of other smaller schools in the same area. This question was asked, and the UNC-CH Admissions Director stated specifically that they did NOT make decisions based on gender, simply because that would be discrimination, and that they just take the "best," regardless of gender. I later saw this same statement published in our local paper as well, in an accompanying article about college admissions. I can believe that's true, since the campus is 60% female. If they wanted to make it more even, I'm sure they'd have no problem doing so. A lot of people believe they also have "quotas" in different counties within NC; in the newspaper article I saw, he said this was not true, either. Interesting questions, though.</p>
<p>There are several LACs that publicly state that they are seeking males to try to balance the gender split. Possibly state schools have to play by stricter rules. Any of the formerly all female schools,such as Goucher,Vasser and Skidmore,have in the recent past sought male applicants and stated a preference for them.</p>
<p>One article that I read on this topic qouted an addmissions director as stating that if the female imbalance becomes too heavy,then even female apps will dwindle. Also note the low yields at all female schools which are academically prestigious.</p>
<p>Garrity: Yes, I assume private schools must work differently (?). I doubt the fact that many private universities have closer to a 50/50 split is something that happened randomly. (And a lot of the formerly all-female schools were essentially forced to open up the doors to men, or else they would have had to shut down, I think--lack of funds).</p>
<p>This is anecdotal, but in my experience, I have seen several males get into UNC while girls who were, in my opinion, much more qualified were rejected. I've never seen the reverse situation.</p>
<p>D's male friend also got $2500. I won't jump on the gender bias wagon for this one...... Back to the topic, I'm looking for pictures of the "other" side of UNC (the ones that don't necessarily get show-cased at UNC Admissions events....what's the scoop among students (or parents) on things they wish were different on the Chapel Hill campus?</p>
<p>Recently read an article which suggested that U.S. colleges and universities will see an increasing # of female applicants over male applicants. Can't remember why-but we are the opposite of China where there is a severe shortage of girls due to the one child per family restrictions which leads to more male births by predetermination.</p>
<p>My understanding is that UNC purposely maintains a 60-40 female-male ratio to balance NC State University's 40-60. They tried 65-35 about 10 years ago but decided to go back to 60-40.</p>
<p>If nothing else, it's a great recruiting tool for males who have time to research this stuff.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech is publicly seeking more qualified female applicants. GT has the highest ratio of males of any Div.I school other than the military academies.</p>
<p>I really don't think that the 60-40 ratio is a "reaction" to State's opposite ratio. I think it is just the nature of the two schools: State has very popular engineering programs (which happen to draw many more males) and UNC is much more liberal arts focused (which happens to draw more females). I too seem to remember the admissions officer saying that decisions were not made based on gender. The only quotas that I know of are the cap on OOS students, as well as there being certain "county quotas" for students within North Carolina.</p>
<p>As far as what I would change about Carolina? The construction. It just so happens that there is a lot of construction going on at Carolina at this moment in time. HOWEVER, I can't imagine life at Carolina without the Ramshead Complex, or the newly renovated Union, or Memorial Hall- all of which are results of the recent push in construction.</p>
<p>APmom - </p>
<p>I can relay my d's feedback (though she is only a freshman)....</p>
<p>....that's it. She loves the place. The only thing she would change is how basketball tickets are sold. And she wouldn't hike tuition so drastically for oos students. But other than that....</p>
<p>Btw...have you visitied? My husband and I spent a week in Chapel Hill during oos orientation and were just taken with the campus and the town. I loved how all the overt development is on the other side of the highway in Durham which allows the town to keep that wonderful historic feel.</p>
<p>Upstater, the m/f ratios are mandated by the 16-campus UNC system. The individual schools don't get to decide for themselves.</p>