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No one can give you a straight answer about scholarship opportunities. I lived in the dorms and had an awful suitemate (besides rampant sex in the shower, she and her boyfriend broke into my room) and I reported her several times to my RA. Later after reporting this time with photographic evidence of how my suitemate trashed the bathroom, I was told it was "my fault" that I couldn't control her. I'm just glad that she wasn't my roommate or I would have had to move out or something. The residental staff are completely uncooperative and unsupportative.
As for the food, there are 6 choices (7 if you count cereal, but when you inquire about the indegredents in the food, the workers never had any idea if that was chicken or pork. Great desserts though. A+ there. In the school paper this past year, there was many, many complaints about the quality of the food and problems with the "eat all you want, as many times as you want" plan such as getting lectured at if you tried to get more than 2 slices of pizza. Personally, I wouldn't recommend anyone to come to this school. You'd be better off somewhere else. Also, UNCA is known for being "liberal and hippie" but watch out, the Republicans threw a humongous fit during the 2004 election and whined constantly while the Democrats barely peeped.
The professors are extremely helpful and accessible and are at a surprising level for such a small, public school. I'm in the French department and, although the program is very small and undeveloped, all the professors have very long office hours and are always willing to discuss things in their offices after class. All of my professors in my major have really made a personal connection with me and I feel they are genuinely interested in my future.
The one major issue I've had at UNCA is the dead discussions. It seems that even in higher level courses specifically for people in that respective major, many of the people in your class will give the air of not wanting to be there. This can be frustrating because most of the upper level courses are discussion based.
That brings me to my next point. You will not run into many huge lecture courses. Most classes are tiny and have very interesting coursework.In general, this isn't a super challenging school. You can graduate with a perfect GPA without spending Columbia or Yale level of weekly study.
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