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for those students that want to go into engineering, it is much easier than NCSU.
UNCC may be easier to get into, but if their engineering curriculum is any good, those students will run into the same difficult courses when they become sophomores and juniors. There are no shortcuts to a real engineering degree.
UNC-C is the "hot" school right now. It's all cyclical. My son didn't like it but my daughter (who is a HS freshman) did. My son's take on it was "everyone here is wearing a shirt with a different school's name on it". Will my freshman like it in 3 years? Time will tell. A lot of kids from GHHS go there....and they take a lot of the track and field kids.
UNC-C's engineering program has a large focus on motorsports technology. They have a brand new facility dedicated to that.
Ok, UNCC is close to having 30,000 students. They do have a goal to get to 35,000 - at least they said that when I was there for a tour.
UNCC definitely does not have enough on campus housing, but the amount of off campus housing within walking distance to the school is impressive. There are a number of off campus places being built too. I realize it is not Chapel Hill, but the school has come a long way from what it once was. It is no longer the commuter school it used to be.
I personally can not favor one school over the other because tuition money goes to both.
UNCC may be easier to get into, but if their engineering curriculum is any good, those students will run into the same difficult courses when they become sophomores and juniors. There are no shortcuts to a real engineering degree.
You are right. I think it is easier to get a seat in the program but you have to adhere to some strict guidelines as far as GPA and the amount of time spent to reach upper level classes.
Who knows. It's just where kids want to go right now. Just like all the kids from up north want to go to Clemson, Elon, University of Miami....who knows why these schools get "hot".
I think for kids around here, it's similar to "home" not too far away and close to the city of Charlotte, the rail line runs right by campus.
I would also add that the traditional university process may articially deny opportunities to people who may make fine doctors, nurses, lawyers, etc through their weed out process. Freshman Chemistry or Organic Chemistry may be more difficult at UNC/NCSU (or larger class so less individualized attention), so the person taking the class there gets a "C" where the person taking it at the local community college gets a "B+". Uphill climb for the UNC/NCSU to get high GPA for med school. Community college student transfers in with the credits and doesnt have the "C" on their transcript.
Taking your core basic sciences at community college is a no-go for med school applications.
UNCC has seen tremendous infrastructure investment and has become a solid option for students interested in STEM disciplines who aren't attending NCSU. I, too, had the outdated opinion of it as a commuter school until I visited it last year and came away impressed. They've done tremendous work to change the image of the campus and it's paying off.
As Wake and Mecklenburg Counties grow, and as more students from those areas are looking to the UNC system due to the great quality/cost ratio, it won't be long before the competition among students from the large population centers for spots at UNCW, UNCC, App and others approach, if not meet, the level of UNCCH and NCSU.
Taking your core basic sciences at community college is a no-go for med school applications.
As someone who reviews these applications and interviews applicants for a state medical school, I generally agree, at least for classes like organic chemistry. But if an applicant took, for example, a calculus class at a community college with a strong reason for doing so (e.g., there wasn't an opportunity to fit the course in), and had a strong overall academic record, this would not be a deal-breaker.
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