Although the new rule will remove ambiguity from the AP policies, each university’s board of trustees will have the option to grant exceptions to individual course requirements.
The University has 24 ongoing construction projects, and four of them are located where students are most likely to tour.
The UNC School of Media and Journalism's new admission process allows all students to apply, regardless of their GPA. The MJ-school just accepted their first class of applicants, with numbers consistent with previous years.
A response by UNC to the group suing the University for the affirmative action case about their admission practices is underway.
Both pre-law students and law admission officers attribute some increase in law school applications to the current political climate.
Find out why the innumerable amounts of middle schoolers wander UNC's campus periodically.
UNC admission decisions are released for the applicants who applied by the Oct. 15 deadline. Three admitted students share what they are looking forward to most.
The UNC Office of Undergraduate Admissions has gotten rid of deferment, the decision outcome that let Early Action applicants know if they were admitted, waitlisted or denied at the same time as Regular Decision applicants.
UNC is one of three universities being sued by Students for Fair Admissions.
Student Admissions Ambassadors have to tackle difficult questions during tours, and find a way to tactfully explain the recent events to prospective students and parents.
The group claims UNC considers race as a dominant factor and has not considered enough “race-neutral” alternatives.
"For every low-income student eligible for the Carolina Covenant, there are two middle-income students supported by other forms of institutionally funded aid."
Viviana Gonzalez is one of 18,862 undergraduate students at UNC. However, according to the Office of Undergraduate Retention, Gonzalez is one of 4,000 students to be the first in their family to attend college.
International students need a lot of help to get from home to UNC, but many of them said the University misses the mark. Everything that confuses the average incoming first-year is also an obstacle for international students — figuring out what classes to take, how to pay tuition, how to find friends — but for them, there is another layer of bureaucracy and unfamiliarity that UNC doesn't fully address.
The American Talent Initiative is collaborating with universities across the country—including UNC—to make their institutions more accessible for low-income students as they are still underrepresented at universities.
Public university systems in states like California and North Carolina are rejecting students that would have been accepted in prior years.
At a University where only 37.6 percent of students are people of color, and only 7.8 percent self-identify as Black or African-American only, it is common for Black students to feel uncomfortable or targeted by microaggressions in an institutionalized white space like UNC.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities is introducing a new project designed to encourage institutional cooperation and increase college graduation rates.
UNC has seen a 6 percent increase in applications since last year, a number that's been rising since 2005.
Every January UNC welcomes a new group of first-years into the Tar Heel community. Recently UNC released its early admissions decisions. Staff writer Kayla Boswell reached out to perspective first-years via Twitter to see what they were most excited about their first year at UNC.
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