This Class Profile details information provided by UNC’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions about students who applied to Carolina, about those who were admitted and then those who enrolled in fall 2021. (Preliminary numbers usually are reported each August; these numbers were compiled after the start of the fall semester.)
- 53,775 applied for admission (21% more than in 2020)
- 10,344, or 19%, were admitted
- 4,688 enrolled
Of those who enrolled:
- 63% are female, 37% are male
- 50% were born in North Carolina; 12% were born outside the U.S.
- 86% have at least one parent who earned a 2- or 4-year degree
- 50% have at least one parent who earned a graduate degree
- 3% have no parent who earned a high school diploma
- 37% are fluent in two or more languages; 15% speak a language other than English as their first language (4% Mandarin, 4% Spanish)
- 15% have three or more siblings; 11% are only children
- 17.3% of those enrolling are first-generation college students, coming from families where a parent has not graduated from a four-year school
- 38.4% are receiving need-based aid while 5.1% are receiving merit-based aid
- 8% are affiliated with the military
- 942 students entered Carolina as transfer students