
In the application year 2024, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faced a steep acceptance rate of 15.5%, with 9,081 out of 58,638 domestic applicants gaining admission. This marked a significant decline from the previous year's acceptance rate of 18.8% for application year 2023, when 9,690 applicants were accepted from a smaller pool of 51,526. The data from the two most recent years indicates intensifying competition as the number of applicants has increased substantially, while the acceptance rate continues to decline.