State colleges with low in-state admission rates
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Anonymous
| I keep hearing that UMD is getting harder to get into for state residents. Are some states more restrictive than others at their highest ranked school? (I realize MD has other state colleges that are less competitive) |
Anonymous
| Yes. Most flagship state universities are like this. |
Anonymous
| Georgia Tech is very hard for instate residents to get into (overall it is hard, but in some programs almost impossible - aerospace engineering for example) |
Anonymous
| UVA's instate rate makes it a very tough admit. William and Mary seems to be circling the drain in that it's out of state applicant pool dropped precipitously for the class of 2020 and the overall admit rate for instate and out of state is an unimpressive 37 percent. |
Anonymous
| Yes some are more selective than others. There are lists out there of admit rates for public universities so you can scan for selectivity. |
Anonymous
| UVA has been hard to get in in-state for years, William & Mary used to be as well. |
Anonymous
| UC Berkeley and UCLA are harder for in state residents than out of state residents because the University of California wants the higher tuition from out of state residents and international students. |
Anonymous
William and Mary still is very hard to get into, especially from NoVA. |
Anonymous
Have family in California. This has now filtered down to UCSD, UCSB, and UC Davis. In fact, schools in Arizona and Oregon are starting to recruit California students that have been squeezed out of their home state's univerisities |
Anonymous
| University of Florida can be tough depending on year. |
Anonymous
Oh, please. |
Anonymous
Not true. OOS and international students have to show higher gpa and SAT scores and the admission rates are significantly lower for them compared to the in-state students. |
Anonymous
+1 The standards are more difficult for out of state students. -- California resident |
Anonymous
| The NC system requires that 82% of the incoming freshman class is in-state. Not sure if that is by college or across all state schools. UNC is a tough one for out of staters. |
Anonymous
This is exactly where my son wants to go. So is it impossible for local kids and difficult for out of state? I would hardly believe that it is impossible for local kids. I was from GA (Tech graduate for both BS and MS). My cousin worked as student assistant in admission. She told me that they were actually fishing for local kids among applications every single day and were giving them priority. (Yes that was some time ago, but I strongly doubt that anything changed.) Given that Tech is public, I believe there is a quota for out of state students and it would be harder for them. Admission is obligated to fill most seats with local studnets by the state, or they will loose financial support. I also would not believe that there are very few local students in Aerospace Engineering. That would be impossible. On the other hand as math major 20 years ago, I can confirm that most students in advanced Math classes for Math majors were foreigners (including me, who was permanent resident.) However, that was not due to accepting policies. There were very few local student who were interested and could survive these classes. Believe me that was survival of the fittest. Tech was always top school for Industrial Eng (1st), Architecture (top 5), and Aerospace Eng (top 5). |