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UNC Office of Undergraduate Admissions

UNC's Admissions Ambassadors program sees applications increase

By Amelia Nitz | September 29

The competition to be one of the friendly faces giving prospective students and their parents tours of UNC is on the rise. The Admissions Ambassadors ...

University seeks student volunteers for tour guides

By From staff and wire reports | September 23

The University is currently looking for students who wish to work in the Admissions Ambassadors Program. Ambassadors will be asked to represent the University ...

Budget cuts limit ability to recruit top students

By Eliza Kern | September 23

UNC administrators often brag that their newest students are the best and the brightest.

Smaller crowd at area college fair, UNC's table still draws numbers

By Lenzie Purcell | September 21

Fewer students than last year attended the local school districts’ annual college fair at UNC on Tuesday, but the University’s table was still crowded. The ...

State to vote on requiring ACT test

By Elizabeth Byrum | September 15

A new accountability model for public schools might mean another standardized test for the high school class of 2014. The North Carolina State Board of ...

UNC admissions releases essay questions

By From staff reports | July 13

If you’re looking to apply to UNC this fall, you can go ahead and get started on the essays. UNC’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions released essay ...

UNC uses 3 steps to stop admission scams

By Dean Drescher | June 3

UNC doesn’t want to be like Harvard. In mid-May, an application hoax by a Harvard student was exposed, showing that even the most selective college ...

Facebook no factor in most UNC-system admissions

By Brad Weisberg | February 22

For several years now, high school seniors applying to universities haven’t just had to worry about perfecting their college essays and transcript, ...

Ellen Porter, a freshman business major, leads a tour of the campus for prospective students. DTH/ Erica O’Brien

Admission tours to be revamped

February 22

It’s a college staple that many remember as the first time they fell in love with a campus. Now, UNC is revamping its own campus tour experience to ...

Program reaches out to Latino students

By Isabella Cochrane | February 17

A federal program that awards funding to universities with exceptionally large Latino populations is creating an incentive for schools to reach out to ...

UNC lures homeschoolers

By Lyle Kendrick | February 2

Then applying to colleges, freshman Lawson Kuehnert created a portfolio of the coursework he completed during his high school career as a home-schooled ...

UNC considers halting use of paper applications

January 14

UNC is considering shredding the traditional paper application. At a meeting Tuesday, a group of faculty members and administrators who oversee admissions ...

Schools waive fee to apply

By Manuel Montes | November 16

To encourage first-generation and low-income high school seniors to apply to college, Gov. Bev Perdue has declared Nov. 16 to Nov. 20 “College Application ...

Junior Taylor Beckham, a classical civilizations major, guides a tour group of prospective students and parents around UNC.

UNC recruitment on track despite budget cuts

By Lyle Kendrick | September 8

The admissions office has made minor spending changes in a tight budget year, but administrators said recruitment is staying on track in part through ...

UNC early applicants decrease

By Ruthie Warshenbrot | December 3

Fewer students applied to UNC by the Nov. 15 early action deadline than had applied to the University by this time last year, according to preliminary ...