<p>Skie: I have no idea where you got that information; can you provide a source? Those m/f ratios are not mandated.</p>
<p>Thanks IDmom, for addressing my original question! Anybody else???</p>
<p>Jack, I'm on the faculty. It was an oft-discussed topic when I served on the Faculty Council.</p>
<p>Skie: Well, faculty or no-- I don't believe it. Can you point to the Board of Governors' policy that this is the case? If this is a mandate--and especially if across the 16 campuses--then it would be a directive of some sort from the Board of Governors. So, if you could point out where this can be found, I would love to see it. Thanks.</p>
<p>Jack, I can't give you an official source. I can only tell you that when the ratio moved to 65/35, and then 68/32, the faculty complained. We were told that the University had no say in this.</p>
<p>Skie - I don't know when (what years) the ratios got to what you have quoted; however, I suspect the "University had no say in this," because it was/is-- in fact-- gender-blind admissions (or, if not absolutely gender-blind, then certainly not gender-biased)--just as Farmer stated on NPR. </p>
<p>Indeed, if this was a "mandate" across all 16 campuses, as you say, then there would be a written source for this, which would be accessible to the public. Again, if you find it, please do post it here. Thanks again.</p>
<p>I don't even go there, but I'd change the ticket lottery system. Truly dedicated fans should have priority over people who don't know what a foul shot is, and stuff like tenting like Duke does would be a lot of fun.</p>
<p>Yeah the basketball ticket situation needs some rethinking. The problem is that they are just so popular, and will continue to be for a while I think with the way the team is playing.</p>
<p>I'm a guy and I'm not complaining about the M/F ratio heh.</p>
<p>I've heard complaints about the advising system at Chapel Hill. Any thoughts? The comments I've heard have been from students before they declare a major.</p>
<p>My d has been very happy with advising...but she gets an honors advisor through the Johnson Center. Not sure if that makes a difference.</p>
<p>I think most who are unhappy with advising are not doing their 'homework'. The new curriculum requires effort on the part of the student prior to sitting down with the advisor...but there are worksheets for every degree program available to the students to help with this 'homework'. The course options for fulfilling the Foundations, Connections and Approaches requirements are many and a student should have narrowed down their preferences before meeting with advisors. Student who go in with a blank pad and no ideas will not be happy with the end result of their advising session.</p>
<p>I would certainly rethink the new process of basketball ticket distribution-- it makes no sense. Secondly, while I realize the need for progress, I think it would be awesome to see campus even once without the loads of construction going on everywhere.</p>
<p>When's construction going to be completed?</p>
<p>I would think they would continue renovating the old dorms, so probably never...lol! I didn't think it was that bad when we visited though. The campus is gorgeous despite the occasional pockets of construction.</p>
<p>tyler: I agee about the basketball distribution. I think they ought to just bite the bullet, and give season tickets to all parents of kids at UNC. That they haven't had the vision to do that is my major complaint. ;)</p>
<p>awwhhh...EXCELLENT IDEA jack!!</p>
<p>Isn't that a great idea! I may have to send that in to the suggestion box. I have no idea how one secures season tickets. I'm thinking you have to wait for somebody to die and inherit them. ??</p>
<p>According to the Daily Tar Heel (February 8), some ideas are being floated by the Dept. of Athletics to address some of the concerns with ticket distribution. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no indication that those in charge have come to the conclusion that they can end the whole dispute simply by following Jack's suggestion.</p>
<p>One of D's biggest concerns about UNC is that it is "too" focused on the sports and not enough on the academics. Although I've been convinced from all the campus visits and Office of Admissions programs that UNC is academically a great school, it's curious that from reading this thread, basketball seems to quickly take over the conversation. (Or maybe it's just that everything else is almost perfect at UNC, and the difficulty at getting into the bball games is the only gripe?) Don't get me wrong--we've already told her that if she attends UNC, that H and I will drive up and use the tickets she wins in the ticket lottery while she goes to the library to study :).</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that UNC is too focused on sports, believe me academics come up in conversation more that sports do here, but basketball and other sports are great diversions from all the work. Personally I would rather go to UNC that UVA (a school with a better academic rep.) just because we have better sports, it's just something to get excited about.</p>
<p>astrophysicsmom: Given the very recent basketball game(s)-- the loss to NCSU and then winning the Duke game-- I think you can probably expect this thread to veer off (this week, anyway) into the world of Tarheel basketball. That Duke/Carolina game was (is always) the hottest ticket in college basketball. So I'm not sure you can expect people not to talk about it!</p>
<p>My daughter was never a huge sports fan, but she is now (basketball, anyway). I do think there's a wonderful kind of electricity, and pride, and school spirit at UNC--thanks in some part to the basketball there. It's pretty exciting, really. She loves it (as do we).</p>
<p>In answer to your original question, though, our daughter is one happy camper at UNC. She loves the school, the campus, the town, her classes, the students, the weather. I don't think I've ever heard her complain once. She's never had an advising problem; she finds the professors quite accessible; she's had lots of opportunities to get involved; she's already had an amazing study-abroad experience; she has had some small and challenging honors courses--as well as small and challenging courses that were not honors; she's had a few large lecture-hall type classes, but not many, and she found those perfectly fine. So I'm not sure she would change much, except quite possibly that never-ending construction--though, as some other poster mentioned--the results are awfully nice. But I'll ask her next time I talk to her. </p>
<p>Again, as parents of a current student there, the only minor complaint I have, and what I can see missing, are those season tickets. :)</p>