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Student Development—Minimum Course Requirements

To be accepted at an UNC senior institution, you must meet Minimum Course Requirements (MCR). They are:

 

Effective Fall 2006

To be considered for admission, students will need to submit the SAT I or ACT with the Writing Component. The ACT without the Writing Component will not be accepted. In addition, students must have taken and passed:

Six course units in language including

• four units in English emphasizing grammar, composition and literate, and
• two units of a language other than English

Four course units of mathematics, in any of the following combinations:

• algebra I and II, geometry, and one unit beyond algebra II
• algebra I and II, and two units beyond algebra II, or
• integrated math I, II, and III and one unit beyond math III.

(The fourth unit of math affects applicants to all institutions except the NC School of the Arts.) It is recommended that prospective students take a mathematics course unit in the 12th grade.

Three courses in science, including

• at least one unit in a life or biological science (for example, biology)
• at least one unit in physical science (for example, physical science, chemistry, physics) and
• at least one laboratory course

Two units of social studies

• including one unit in US History. An applicant who does not have the unit in U.S. History may be admitted on the condition that at least three semester hours in that subject will be passed by the end of the sophomore year.

 

Math courses with Algebra II as a prerequisite that meet the new UNC Minimum Course Requirement:

• AP Calculus
• AP Statistics
• Pre-calculus (formerly Advanced Math)
• Discrete Mathematics
• IB Mathematics Level II
• Integrated Mathematics IV
• Advanced Functions and Modeling

"Course units" as defined in these requirements may include those high school level courses taken and passed by an applicant after graduating form high school, as well as those taken while enrolled as a high school student. For some transfer students and students who graduated from high school prior to 1990, special considerations have been made.

Students who did not satisfy the MCR upon completion of high school must include a sequence of two courses in a foreign language in their A.A. or A.S. general education program of study in order to be considered for admission to a public university beginning Fall 2004.