Carolina a 'New Ivy"
By Claire Stackhouse

Carolina is one of the "new Ivies" according to the 2007 Newsweek and Kaplan "How to Get into College Guide."

The guide named the University as one of the 25 schools that have benefited from the recent boom of top students applying to college.

Director of Admissions, Stephen Farmer says he doesn't expect the recognition to cause a big increase in the number of students who apply to Carolina.

“Students choose what school they want to attend based on several things, not just what they read in Newsweek,” said Farmer.

Farmer also says that the University is more concerned with doing a good job than getting accolades.

"Our approach has been that if we do our work responsibly, if we act on behalf of the University with vision, the other things, including ratings and outside recognition will fall into place," said Farmer.

In addition to the Newsweek recognition, for the sixth year in a row, U-S News World Report has named Carolina the fifth best public University in the country.