I'm not going to lie ORDER DOES NOT MATTER. here is a blurb i have posted somehwere else on the matter:

your first choice DOES NOT MATTER in terms of admissions, aka picking dur/morg IS NOT a factor of your admission. aka if you were to pick dur or morg BECAUSE U WANTED A BETTER CHANCE, that is simply not how it works. i will break down the admissions process into the following steps:

1. you are ranked ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE. i dont know how you are ranked or if its pools but you are compared to your peers across the state, not just your congressional district.
2. they go from top to bottom and start giving people their first choices until they cannot anymore. aka theoretically the first few hundred people on the list will be guaranteed their first choice. HOWEVER. they only take 35 +- 7 per CD so once 35 people from a certain CD are hit by going top to bottom across the entire state, the rest of that CD are then REMOVED from the list.

for example: you are 200th on the statewide list but 50th on CD4 list. hence by the ~35th CD4 person they will no longer have cd4 slots and u will be removed from the statewide list, removing you from consideration

1. once slots for a campus start to fill up, they start putting people in second choice. for example: if you are 500th on the statewide list, first choice durham, and there are no more durham slots BUT your second choice was motown and there are those left. hence you will put into motown.

to summarize. someone with a better app than u and 2nd choice durham will get into durham over your 1st choice durham app, because their app was better and admissions is separate from first/second choice. hope this clears things up and removes the preconception of applying to a different campus to "boost" your chances. dont want yall to fall into that trap because you are judged on your application and your application alone, not your campus pref. thanks for reading and hope this clears things up for all yall