Admissions requirements on the rise in UNC system
Published: Sat, Jan. 12, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Sat, Jan. 12, 2008 02:43AM
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closeWINSTON-SALEM -- Starting in the fall of 2009, students admitted to the UNC system will have to show a minimum of 2.0 high school grade point average and at least 700 on the SAT or 15 on the ACT. Minimum admissions requirements were approved Friday by the UNC Board of Governors at a meeting in Winston-Salem.
By 2011, the requirements will rise to a 2.3 GPA, 750 SAT or 16 ACT. By 2013, they will be a 2.5 GPA and 800 SAT or 17 ACT.
UNC officials say new standards would affect mainly six campuses: Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, N.C. A&T State, N.C. Central and Winston-Salem State universities, and UNC-Pembroke. Each of the schools was founded to serve minority students.
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Even with the higher standards, chancellors at the UNC campuses will be allowed to have exceptions to the policy of up to 1 percent of applicants.
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