Sophomore Joy Jiang, first-year Christina Huang, and sophomore Sarah Zhang pose for a portrait at the Old Well on Oct. 3, 2022. The UNC for Affirmative Action group aims to defend diversity at UNC.

Students start UNC for Affirmative Action

By Stella Griffin | Oct. 3

UNC for Affirmative Action is a new student group aiming to raise awareness about affirmative action and the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case that could affect it at UNC. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be heard on October 31 and has the potential to nullify UNC’s affirmative action policies

DTH Photo Illustration. Graduate schools are no longer requiring the GRE- a standardized test previously used for admission.

GRE testing no longer required for all UNC graduate school admissions

By Collin Tadlock | Sep. 25

DTH Photo Illustration. The Board of Governors recently decided that all schools under the UNC school system will waive standardized testing until 2024.

Editorial: UNC waives standardized testing, but it shouldn't stop there

By Editorial Board | Apr. 25

President Biden is asking the Supreme Court to overrule two judges' decisions, thus reinstating student loan forgiveness.
Photo Courtesy of Ihsanyildizli/Getty Images/TNS.

UNC affirmative action case to be heard by the Supreme Court

By Allie Kelly | Jan. 24, 2022

Shelby Armstrong, an incoming transfer student at UNC, poses for a virtual portrait in her hometown of Charlotte, NC, on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2021. "If you have the opportunity to Carolina, you might as well go," says Armstrong, an incoming junior studying communications. "Unless, I guess, if you have the opportunity to go to Harvard," she jokes.

UNC's incoming transfer students receive letters of acceptance

By Sophie Seoyoung Cho | Apr. 26, 2021

DTH Photo Illustration. Female computer science majors at UNC Chapel Hill turn to each other for support as they navigate being in a male-dominated department.

Computer science department reverses course, suspends plan for an admissions-based system

By Cynthia Dong | Apr. 6, 2021

Admissions Ambassador Gabriela Duncan poses for a portrait outside of Jackson Hall on Feb. 17, 2021. Duncan gives virtual tours of the UNC campus to prospective students.

Virtual tours, information panels give prospective students chance to learn about UNC

By Greta Travaglia | Feb. 17, 2021

With in-person tours of campus suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UNC Visitors Center is offering an alternative way to continue the tradition of experiencing campus: through virtual tours hosted via Zoom.

DTH Photo Illustration. A student throws test materials in the air. UNC, along with other universities, waived their SAT requirement for admissions, providing relief to many applicants.

End of SAT subject tests, essay bring minimal changes to UNC admissions

By Clay Morris | Feb. 9, 2021

UNC and additional universities waived their test score submission requirement for the 2021 admissions cycle due to COVID-19. With the College Board's recent announcement that it would no longer offer the optional essay on the SAT or supplemental subject tests, students applying to the University experience a modified application process that could carry on after the pandemic.

Applicants for UNC's class of 2025 receive letters of acceptance

By William Christensen and Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata | Feb. 2, 2021

Just over 8,000 students received acceptance letters to UNC for the first of the class of 2025.

A small group stands near the Old Well behind South Building on Sept. 12, 2020.

Here's what you missed in the first week of UNC's race-conscious admissions trial

By Maydha Devarajan and Hunter Haskett | Nov. 16, 2020

SFFA claims that UNC’s admissions policies violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, and are intentionally discriminatory against white and Asian American applicants.

DTH Photo Illustration. North Carolina State Superintendent Mark Johnson announced that the state Department of Public Instruction is making changes to standardized tests, making the tests shorter to help ease the strain on students and teachers.

Here's how loosened admission requirements affect UNC System applicants

By Emily Orland | Mar. 31, 2020

The UNC System has a new SAT/ACT/GPA requirement for high school seniors applying to institutions. Here's how it could impact UNC-Chapel Hill and other UNC System schools.

Jackson Hall, home to undergraduate admissions, is named after Blyden and Roberta Jackson,  two of the first Black faculty members on campus to receive tenure and some of the first African-American professors in the Southeast.

Here's what you need to know about UNC's new re-admissions guidelines

By Maydha Devarajan | Aug. 27, 2019

UNC will be launching Return to Carolina on Sept. 9 in an effort to address the needs of students who re-enroll in the school. The program will allow administrators from various departments across campus to provide information and guidance on next steps for the student’s individual case.

A stack of books sits on top of a table on the sixth floor of Davis Library on Monday, April 1, 2019.

High schoolers, stress less for AP tests: threes are the new standard for credit

By Preston Lennon | Jul. 2, 2019

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.

Mike Bunting, assistant athletic director for facility planning and management comments on the current ongoing construction of Fetzer Field. “It’s been a very difficult site to work on with all the rock and unforeseen conditions,” Bunting said. “You really don’t know exactly what’s under there until you start digging, and it was a messy job.”

How does campus construction impact enrollment?

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez | Apr. 3, 2019

The University has 24 ongoing construction projects, and four of them are located where students are most likely to tour.

Carroll Hall is the home of UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

School of Media and Journalism accepts students through the new admission process

By Brandon Gianikos | Mar. 28, 2019

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.

(From left to right) Political committee member Daniel Kang, President Anna Hattle and Senior Advisor Jessie Huang of the Asian American Student Association prepare to address the members of the organization in Bingham Hall on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019.

UNC files response to SFFA motion for summary judgement

By Leah Asmelash | Mar. 5, 2019

A response by UNC to the group suing the University for the affirmative action case about their admission practices is underway.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke in the Greensboro Coliseum on Tuesday, June 14, 2017.

Here's how the political climate could be making it even harder to get into law school

By Evely Forte | Mar. 3, 2019

Both pre-law students and law admission officers attribute some increase in law school applications to the current political climate.

Addie Wise, a first-year advertising and public relations major, toured UNC before deciding to go here; the tour influenced the path of her college future. "The campus was so pretty and it felt like home.", Addie Wise says on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019.

Why are all these middle schoolers on campus?

By Jordyn Williams | Feb. 4, 2019

Find out why the innumerable amounts of middle schoolers wander UNC's campus periodically.

Welcome to UNC, class of 2023

By Brandon Gianikos | Jan. 31, 2019

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.

After the removal of the Silent Sam pedestal from campus on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, students wonder how Silent Sam will be addressed in future campus tours to prospective students.

UNC eliminates deferment in admissions outcomes

By Rachel Crumpler | Jan. 28, 2019

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.