UNC-Chapel Hill Wait List Acceptance Rate

Wait List Acceptance Rate

For the application year 2024, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offered 6,120 applicants a place on the wait list, with 295 students ultimately accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 4.82%. This marked a significant increase from the previous year (2023), where only 36 out of 6,154 wait-listed applicants were admitted, reflecting a 0.58% acceptance rate. In contrast, for the application year 2022, the acceptance rate was higher at 5.3%, with 383 out of 7,258 wait-listed applicants being accepted. These numbers indicate substantial fluctuations in the wait list acceptance rates over the recent years.