For the application year 2024, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported a Regular Decision acceptance rate of 18.75%, with 7,595 out of 40,531 applicants admitted. This marks an increase from the previous year’s acceptance rate of 17.11% for application year 2023, where 6,747 applicants were accepted from 39,439. A significant decline was observed in 2022, with just 7.76% acceptance from 40,053 applicants. Historically, acceptance rates have fluctuated, peaking at 30.54% in 2016, but the trend since then shows a gradual decrease, reflecting an increasingly competitive applicant pool.