The University of North Carolina (UNC) will no longer use race as a factor in its admissions and hiring decisions, including in the applications essays, following the monumental decision by the ...

A UNC admissions case made it all the way to the Supreme Court. How will the Supreme Court rule? How do decisions on other cases throughout history inform this one? And could this SCOTUS ruling change ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Teresa Kanu's daughter Serena has a full plate with sports and school. Now she's adding college applications to the list. "What she's been doing is, finding the time on ...

UNC is known for its highly competitive admissions, with the 2024-25 Common Data Set showing a roughly 15.6 percent acceptance rate, leaving prospective students reflecting on their high school ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — As families sit around the kitchen table trying to figure out the best options for college, it’s now a bit easier and cheaper. In a time that every dollar counts and ...

UNC-Chapel Hill hired one of the country's biggest law firms in 2014 to defend its affirmative action admissions policy. The university lost a U.S. Supreme Court case over the policy, an effort that ...

UNC Board of Trustees Chair John Preyer listens during a meeting in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Kaitlin McKeown kmckeown@newsobserver.com When a typical student applies to UNC-Chapel ...

Post-secondary institutions will implement NC College Connect, a new college application process, beginning in the 2025-26 academic year. Only public high school and charter school students living in ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Qualifying North Carolina public high school seniors will be able to bypass the traditional college application process for the 2025-26 academic year. On Thursday, The University of ...

UNC-Chapel Hill did not discriminate against white and Asian American applicants and can keep using race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions process, a federal judge ruled Monday. UNC uses a ...