UNC-CH dropping some academic programs

[wb247]

Meanwhile, Arizona State is adding a program for social media content creation and influencing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annaesakis ... -creation/

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

Wonder how much they increase tuition to try to cover the less students.

At the same time there are more applying than get in at every college that I know of currently. Way more competitive to get in than it was 30 years ago.

It WAS way more competitive, but it's about to get a lot easier to get into college starting this fall.

Apparently not this upcoming one. We'll see if anything happens next year. I have another one in 3 years, but hope he does community college for 2 years before transferring to 4 year.


"UNC-Chapel Hill received a record 14,931 Early Action applications from North Carolina residents for the Class of 2030 (fall 2026 enrollment). The university has not yet published its final, total application numbers (including regular decision and out-of-state pools) for this cohort.
Early Action Stats (Class of 2030)
In-state EA applications: 14,931
In-state EA admissions: 5,903
In-state EA acceptance rate: 39.5%

Previous Year Context (Class of 2029)
Total applicants: 84,317 total applicants (first-year and transfer combined)
Enrolled students: 6,191 new students (5,094 first-years and 1,097 transfers)"

Sorry, I meant next fall's class. The kids that will be seniors this year are the first class that's included in the birth bust. Of course, it also will vary based on geography, etc. The soon-to-be freshmen in college were still super competitive.

I teach high school upperclassmen, and it's been interesting the last few years how opinions and demographics have shifted around college. At least in rural Georgia, more and more students are choosing big state schools over elite private schools. Like, we've had kids get accepted to Ivies and choose to go to Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Auburn instead.

I wonder if price factors into not going to private as well? It is getting insane to pay for this and seems dificult to get scholarships even though there are a lot of them out there. In my daughter's class there were many with full rides that got other scholarships on top of the full ride. My daughter got none even being in top 10% of her class.

Some of those scholarships are given by private schools and it is a bit of a game by high schools knowing the scholarships will be given out to pad the amount of scholarships given. Every high school likes to mention the scholarship amount awarded. What really matters is the amount of scholarship used at least the first year after high school, but that is not mentioned. I know Columbia College/University in Columbia, SC was doing this at one time as the guidance counselors at my school at the time were encouraging students to apply there and that was the main reason even if not told to the students in that manner. It was mentioned to some teachers at least.

Some private schools are willing to take rich kids even if they don't really qualify except they know parents can pay the tuition and fees. I was at a private school for a few years and some of the students were accepted for this reason it would seem.

My oldest went to App State. My younger twins did not. The twins were excellent students and presented well to about any college. A few privates did not care for them and likely due to my wife and having the salary we have as two public school teachers. One college like this was Furman being Furman. F#$K Furman by the way. But the twins ended up with less debt combined for both of them that my oldest did at App upon graduation. App does not have a big endowment compared to other universities. I have said this many times but it is one reason I always give a bit more to the academic side compared to the athletic side when I give to the App State Fdn.

But to your one question. Price certainly factors into school selection. It did for me and for my daughters and for many of my students. And there were plenty of great students that were just from poor families that decided not to go to college due to the cost. A shame and a loss to our country with the wasted talent.

[biggie]

Yes price certainly affected my daughter’s decision. We wouldn’t really consider private. And she was accepted at the 2 out of state schools she would have preferred to be at but they were double the cost of chapel hill. She got into App honors college with a $4k scholarship but dislikes anything I like(including cold weather) so refused to go there.