TO THE EDITOR:
All of us in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions agree with Allison Hawkins that “Central NC isn’t the only NC.”
It’s true that the five counties Ms. Hawkins mentions provided half of the North Carolinians who enrolled as first-year students last fall. But it’s also true that those counties provided half of the North Carolinians who applied, and that the enrolling class included students from 91 other counties.
Last fall, our staff spent 20 weeks visiting high schools and community colleges across North Carolina, meeting students in all 100 counties. Through the Carolina College Advising Corps, we also placed recent UNC graduates as admissions and financial aid advisers in counties such as Caldwell and Surry in the west, Anson, Scotland and Robeson in the south, and Bertie, Edgecombe, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton and Warren in the east.
This year, Corps advisers will serve 57 high schools and more than 10,000 graduating seniors, most of them from outside central North Carolina and almost all of them from rural areas or low-income households.
Through these efforts, the University recruits and serves students from every community in North Carolina. Our goal is to give great students every good and truthful reason to think carefully about joining us and to help all students find their way to colleges that will serve them well.
Stephen Farmer
Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions
