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Carolina offers admission to an additional 3,000 candidates
UNC-Chapel Hill expects to enroll 4,000 new students in the fall
(Chapel Hill, N.C.—March 31, 2015) – On Friday, March 27, Carolina released decisions for 16,144 Fall 2015 first-year candidates, offering admission to 3,055. Decisions included those for all regular-decision candidates as well as the 2,419 early-action candidates whose decisions were previously deferred.
The University expects to enroll 4,000 new students in the fall.
Carolina received a total of 31,943 first-year applications this year for a tenth consecutive record and an increase of 2 percent over last year and 37 percent over five years ago.
Across both deadlines, admitted students come from 97 counties in North Carolina, 49 states and the District of Columbia, and 75 different countries. Fourteen percent will be following in the Carolina footsteps of one or more parents; another 14 percent will be the first in their families to attend college. Eighteen percent identify themselves as African American, American Indian, or Latino or Latina.
Eighty-three percent of admitted students are ranked in the top 10 percent of their high-school class, and 63 percent are ranked in the top 5 percent. The middle half of the class scored between 1270 and 1470 on the Critical Reading and Math portion of the SAT and between 28 and 33 on the ACT.
“The numbers don’t tell the full story. The students we’ve admitted include inventors, entrepreneurs, leaders, athletes, artists, community servants and more,” said Stephen Farmer, Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions. “Between now and May 1—the first-year enrollment deadline—we will be doing our best to help these students decide whether Carolina is the place they will call home for the next four years.”
This spring, Carolina will host a number of events for admitted students, including a daylong event known as Explore Carolina for all admitted students and other events for special populations, such as Carolina Firsts for first-generation college students. The admissions office also offers admitted students the opportunity to participate in the Meet a Tar Heel program where they are paired with a current Carolina student. All admitted students are also invited to attend a class to sample Carolina’s academic life.
The first student to enroll, just fifteen minutes after decisions were released, was Sydney Wood of Jacksonville, N.C., a White Oak High School senior and musician who plans to major in psychology and enter medical school one day. “I’ve wanted to attend UNC since I was a little girl, and throughout high school I always kept that in mind,” she said. “I hope to learn a lot at Carolina, and I think the atmosphere here will really help me be happy and grow as a person. I’m so excited for my future at UNC.”
“Even as we celebrate our admitted students, we’ll also be available to assist the thousands of students we’ve disappointed,” said Farmer. “It’s important for them to know they have a bright future, too, whether that includes transfer admission to Carolina in the future or finding their home at another college or university.”
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Office of Undergraduate Admission contacts: Stephen Farmer or Ashley Memory, (919) 843-2531, amemory@admissions.unc.edu
Communications and Public Affairs contact: (919) 445-8555, mediarelations@unc.edu