The Class of 2020

Posted on Aug. 22, 2016

• 35,875 applied for admission

• 9,398, or 26.2 percent, were admitted

• 4,254, or 45.2 percent, are expected to enroll

• 60 percent female, 40 percent male

• 17 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 96 N.C. counties, 41 states and the District of Columbia and 17 other countries

• 779 students are entering Carolina as transfer students

Of those who reported their graduating class ranks:

• 43 percent were in the top 10

• 13 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/2016-first-year-stats.