The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

I am an out of state student. In all honesty if i could chose all over again i would not come here. I found it pretty difficult to meet people. Most of the people, while friendly, come here with a truck-load of their high school friends with whom they primarily hang out with. in my experiance i had no trouble stricking up a conversation with new people on the elevator or on the way to class but the school was so HUGE you get lost in crowd and never seem to see them again. My main dissappoint in the school lies in its tremendous size. As an out of stater i thought i had done my research.. i had bought into all the publicity mail the admissions deparment mailed home.. classes are capped at 20 in certain departments.. big school resources small school feel... i pictured UNC as a progressive, small feeling school.... however when i arrived in the fall i found it did not feel small at all.. professors didn't know i existed, i joined numerous student groups and still felt disconnected, the frat scene was overwhelming... overall-- too big, too many rednecks, too preppy

1st Year Female -- Class 2008

Campus Maintenance: A, Faculty Accessibility: D

UNC is okay for a large public university, I suppose. But I cannot recommend it to anyone. Undergraduates simply do not get enough personal attention: classes are way too huge, teaching assistants do way too much teaching, and too many classes just reflect the professors' arcane and sometimes bizarre research interests. The school's main priorities are producing PhDs and cranking out books and journal articles. Undergraduate education is a very distant third -- when it's even considered at all. Also, the school seems to be determined to become the Berkeley of the East, and ideas which do not toe the leftist line are stifled. Professors just assume that everyone shares their radical worldview. If you want a good graduate education, UNC may well be the place to go. But going here as an undergrad is simply a bad idea -- don't buy all the hype about this place! Go to a small school that focuses on undergraduates, and actually learn something!

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000

This school is way, way, way overrated. Don't come here unless you're 100% sure of what you want to do, because this is a very bad place to try to "find yourself." You will have to fight like crazy to get even the slightest amount of personal attention -- advising is a total joke, or non-existent; most professors won't bother to learn your name because they simply don't care; and good luck finding a TA who speaks passable English. I deeply wish I hadn't gone to UNC -- don't buy all the hype, this school is not as good as the giant propaganda machine would have you believe!

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000