3,055 first-year candidates were offered admission to UNC last Friday.

That number includes the regular-decision applications, as well as the more than 2,400 early-action candidates whose decisions were initially deferred.

More than 6,000 candidates were offered admission during the early-action period.

Carolina received a total of 31,943 applications for enrollment this year, which marks the 10th consecutive year of a new record. The number of applications has grown 37 percent over the last five years.

Across both deadlines, admitted students come from 97 counties in North Carolina, 49 states and the District of Columbia, and 75 different countries. Fourteen percent will be following in the Carolina footsteps of one or more parents; another 14 percent will be the first in their families to attend college.

“The numbers don’t tell the full story. The students we’ve admitted include inventors, entrepreneurs, leaders, athletes, artists, community servants and more,” said Stephen Farmer, Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions. “Between now and May 1—the first-year enrollment deadline—we will be doing our best to help these students decide whether Carolina is the place they will call home for the next four years.”

The university expects to enroll 4,000 new students in the fall.

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