The Class of 2019

Posted on Aug. 17, 2015

• 31,955 applied for admission

• 9,467, or 29.6 percent, were admitted

• 4,081, or 43.1 percent, are expected to enroll

• 59 percent female, 41 percent male

• 19 percent of those enrolling are first-generation college students, coming from families where a parent has not graduated from a four-year school

• Admitted freshmen come from 97 N.C. counties, 44 states and the District of Columbia and 20 other countries

• 749 students are entering Carolina as transfer students

Of those who reported their graduating class ranks:

• 42 percent were in the top 10

• 14 percent were first or second

• 77 percent were in the top 10 percent

Source: Preliminary numbers as of mid-August, from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. For more, see bit.ly/2015-first-year-stats.