Check this article out in the Charlotte observer, UNC Charlotte didn’t get a single mention…
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/14354328.htm
The whole article was about colleges having to reject more and more students and even App State got mention, but no UNC Charlotte references.
Yeah, I felt so bad for those really smart kids getting rejection letters from UNC and Duke :lmao:
Simple response… the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Selective Journalism and The Charlotte Regional Observer. 
Of course, in the case of these high schoolers, they likely wanted away from the the Charlotte "home"area.
[QUOTE=HP49er;168630]Simple response… the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Selective Journalism and The Charlotte Regional Observer.
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Now now now HP… We don’t want any Observer bashing.
Wait. Maybe you are correct.
You know, I agree with you guys. I looked for UNCC in the chart (I didn’t read the whole story) and was surprised not to see it. I’ll mention your concern, which I share, to the editors in the local section.
[QUOTE=Mike_Persinger;168724]You know, I agree with you guys. I looked for UNCC in the chart (I didn’t read the whole story) and was surprised not to see it. I’ll mention your concern, which I share, to the editors in the local section.[/QUOTE]
Thanks Mike!
[QUOTE=Mike_Persinger;168724]You know, I agree with you guys. I looked for UNCC in the chart (I didn’t read the whole story) and was surprised not to see it. I’ll mention your concern, which I share, to the editors in the local section.[/QUOTE]
Thanks Mike.
I’ve been telling these guys you’re not as bad as everyone thinks you are. 
[QUOTE=allie49er;168629]Yeah, I felt so bad for those really smart kids getting rejection letters from UNC and Duke :lmao:[/QUOTE]
I don’t feel bad for them, I feel bad for us, because here is where they are going to apply and matriculate, and still fawn over the institution that never wanted them.
According to the Frederick (writer), an attempt was made to include UNC Charlotte, however information was unavailable due to issues caused by the fire.
According to the Frederick (writer), an attempt was made to include UNC Charlotte, however information was unavailable due to issues caused by the fire.
They could have just said that UNC Charlotte has had an explosion of applications…
That statement would have been appropriate in the article…don’t you think? I let him know.
[QUOTE=LeftyNiner;168746]That statement would have been appropriate in the article…don’t you think? I let him know.[/QUOTE]
OK, so who knows the number of applicants vs. those offered admission?
OK, so who knows the number of applicants vs. those offered admission?
The office of institutional research could give you that info,
[COLOR=black]http://apir01nt.uncc.edu/irmainpage2/[/COLOR]
According to:
[COLOR=black]http://ir.uncc.edu/irmainpage2/fb05/fb05021.pdf[/COLOR]
For Fall 2005:
6,919 applied, 5,374 were accepted, yielding a 78% rate of acceptance
Only 2,562 actually enrolled leading to a 48% enrollment vs. acceptance rate.
89% of transfer requests were approved.
The office of institutional research could give you that info,[COLOR=black]http://apir01nt.uncc.edu/irmainpage2/[/COLOR]
According to:
[COLOR=black]http://ir.uncc.edu/irmainpage2/fb05/fb05021.pdf[/COLOR]For Fall 2005:
6,919 applied, 5,374 were accepted, yielding a 78% rate of acceptance
Only 2,562 actually enrolled leading to a 48% enrollment vs. acceptance rate.89% of transfer requests were approved.
This data troubles me because it says that to 54% of the people that apply, we are a safety school… :unhappy:
[QUOTE=HappyCamper49;168750]This data troubles me because it says that to 54% of the people that apply, we are a safety school… :unhappy:[/QUOTE]
That acceptance rate is high, to be sure.
The data fits what the university is trying to do though. We could try to attract better students by increasing our standards, but that would reduce the number of people who matriculate. Instead the university is focusing on producing better graduates through better faculty, which will better influence prestige than simply raising admission standards.
What you SHOULD worry about is 300 less women applied from the previous year.
You can’t try to increase enrollment and reject more people at the same time. If the school is trying to increase enrollment eventually to 30,000 you aren’t going to see to many rejections.
We also significantly increase enrollment every year. The school accepts the best students that apply but because that pool gets larger the expansion in quantity must come at the lower end of the scale. In essence, if we add 100 students that chose Charlotte over UNC-CH we are also adding 150 students that can now come instead of ECU because we have more room. This keeps our stats (SAT/GPA) from going up as much. However, in spite of this those stats do continue to rise. If enrollment here was a fixed number as it is at those other schools you would see a picture of escalating requirements for acceptance.
You can't try to increase enrollment and reject more people at the same time. If the school is trying to increase enrollment eventually to 30,000 you aren't going to see to many rejections.
Quoted for truth.
It sounds like there will not be a reduction in the quality of the incoming students despite the growth of the student population at Charlotte. Is the increasing # of rejections indicitive of college populations not increasing at the same rate as the general population?
I hate to say it, but Charlotte WAS my “Safety School” for my undergrad. I still love(and support) the school and had a wonderful time there.