North Carolina Colleges?

Question

Im from out of state and would like to apply to one of these schools as a choice but i am just having a hard time trying to figure out just from the internet what these schools are like so if i can get some help that would be great! (btw my intended major is history and/ or education)

Any opinions,pros and cons, etc. of each school?

UNCG (greensboro)

UNCW (wilimington)

High Point University

UNC at Asheville

UNC at charlotte

or any others?

Thanks!

Answer 1

They're all good schools.  Asheville is in the mountains, so the late summer and early spring will be a little cooler than at the other schools and the winters will be quite a bit colder.  Asheville is a lovely city and I know you would enjoy being there.

My daughter went to UNC-Greensboro for all 4 years, and LOVED it.  It's a safe campus.  Greensboro is a smaller city but there is LOTS to do there, from sports and the arts to volunteer opportunities.  Just be aware that like many universities, their history department faculty tend to be very liberal and you have to do a lot of independent reading to discover for yourself when a professor is presenting a half-truth just because it favors his political agenda.  That's true of most colleges, but since our daughter went there and took the classes, I KNOW it to be true at UNCG.  She double majored in political science and broadcast communications and assignments in her classes often overlapped.  So she would have to research something for broadcasting and in going deeper than what the history class taught, she discovered more than once that the history profs didn't always present history objectively.

UNC-Wilmington is at the beach.  That's where we tried to convince her to go.  After all, having her on campus would give us a great excuse to visit the beach once a month, right?  :-)  It is a good school and again, you'll find a lot of professors in history who present a slanted view of events, and usually it's to the liberal side.  Wilmington is an old city, a very historic port.  If you're interested in American history, you'll find a lot to learn off campus.  

UNC-Charlotte is located in NC's largest city.  The campus is toward an edge of town.  Twenty-five years ago when we traveled down NC 49 for the first time, much of it was rural and you were in the country just 20 minutes away from campus.  Now this whole area has grown considerably.  The Lowes Motor Speedway is nearby in Concord.  Charlotte probably has more opportunities for jobs, night life, arts, sports and pretty much anything than any other city on your list.  

Will you have an opportunity to visit North Carolina to see these schools for yourself?  UNC-Charlotte is about 85 miles south of High Point, which is about 15 miles from UNC-G.  You could easily fly into Greensboro on a Friday evening, visit UNC-G and High Point on Saturday, drive to Charlotte on Saturday evening, and visit the campus there on Sunday.

Greensboro is right in the center of the state.  If you go east on I-40, UNC-Wilmington is about a 3 1/2 hour drive.  Asheville is west on I-40, again about 3 1/2 hours.

As a parent, I would have been pleased for my daughter to attend any of the schools you've listed.