DeacAssured
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As a North Carolina native and resident and father whose son, despite a sparkling record at Myers Park HS and healthy SAT, did not get into Carolina as a freshman (State two years, two years at Carolina), I was surprised to read on this thread of Carolina as a "safety school" and the dismissals and disdain for Carolina as an academic institution. I checked as many academic rankings as I could find (realizing how unscientific they are), and here is what I found: Forbes - WF 56 Carolina 45; USNews - WF 47 Carolina 49; WSJ/Times - WF 62, Carolina 37; CWUR - WF 61/201-250 Carolina 27/54 (national/international). On the other hand, WF was the better team on the field Friday, where the result was objective and not subject to speculation.
As a North Carolinian with restricted means, I am pleased that North Carolina is an inflow state - taking in more college students than we send out; that we are blessed with both fine public and private colleges, which is the informed national and international consensus; that Carolina is held in high regard; and that Wake has made such great strides in recent decades.
No problem with the notion that a UNCCH diploma has value. What is disagreeable is the notion that it is head and shoulders above all the rest: NCSU, NCCU, WCU, ASU, UNCC, etc. The rest of the University system is very good especially because they are not known for holding fake classes or known for academic fraud as is UNCCH. It is time for academics, media and the public to recognize UNCCH as UNCCH, not UNC which was lost a long time ago.