UTK the next elite public?

[Anonymous]

Not sure why my previous thread on this topic got removed. The University of Tennessee Knoxville reports a 23% OOS acceptance rate for fall 2024. That's lower than UGA and almost as low as Michigan and UF.

I know UTK still has work to do to get to the UCLA/Michigan/UVA tier of public universities, but isn't it time to acknowledge the school has become a heavy hitter and probably belongs in the Texas/UGA/UF/Wisco class?

[Anonymous]

How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

[Anonymous]

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

[Anonymous]

Are TN kids in the top 10% of their class not getting in today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are TN kids in the top 10% of their class not getting in today?

Heard some horror stories from 2023. That's what they're trying to address with the new policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

Except UT's in-state rate is only high 30%...is ranked as one of the top public universities...and is ranked in the Top 10 in many different areas.

For some reason you want to equate the two, but you can't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

Except UT's in-state rate is only high 30%...is ranked as one of the top public universities...and is ranked in the Top 10 in many different areas.

For some reason you want to equate the two, but you can't.

Texas is the second biggest state in the country, and just about every college bound kid applies. It's a numbers game. Just because they reject more trash applicants (most of whom wouldn't get into UTK either) doesn't make the school significantly better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

Except UT's in-state rate is only high 30%...is ranked as one of the top public universities...and is ranked in the Top 10 in many different areas.

For some reason you want to equate the two, but you can't.

Texas is the second biggest state in the country, and just about every college bound kid applies. It's a numbers game. Just because they reject more trash applicants (most of whom wouldn't get into UTK either) doesn't make the school significantly better.

You can try as hard as you want to make your failing argument, but maybe when UTK is ranked higher than 103 vs. Texas at 32...and when UTK ranks in the Top 20 in something, then you can return to DCUM.

BTW, UT Austin had 73,000 applications and UTK 57,000...there are tons of college-bound kids that don't apply to either.

[Anonymous]

UTK
#105 national universities (USNWR)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

Except UT's in-state rate is only high 30%...is ranked as one of the top public universities...and is ranked in the Top 10 in many different areas.

For some reason you want to equate the two, but you can't.

Texas is the second biggest state in the country, and just about every college bound kid applies. It's a numbers game. Just because they reject more trash applicants (most of whom wouldn't get into UTK either) doesn't make the school significantly better.

You can try as hard as you want to make your failing argument, but maybe when UTK is ranked higher than 103 vs. Texas at 32...and when UTK ranks in the Top 20 in something, then you can return to DCUM.

BTW, UT Austin had 73,000 applications and UTK 57,000...there are tons of college-bound kids that don't apply to either.

Wait a few years until the graduation rates start coming in for UTK's fall 2023 entering class and beyond, which were selected from much stronger applicant pools than previous classes. UTK will be a top 50 school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

Except UT's in-state rate is only high 30%...is ranked as one of the top public universities...and is ranked in the Top 10 in many different areas.

For some reason you want to equate the two, but you can't.

Texas is the second biggest state in the country, and just about every college bound kid applies. It's a numbers game. Just because they reject more trash applicants (most of whom wouldn't get into UTK either) doesn't make the school significantly better.

You can try as hard as you want to make your failing argument, but maybe when UTK is ranked higher than 103 vs. Texas at 32...and when UTK ranks in the Top 20 in something, then you can return to DCUM.

BTW, UT Austin had 73,000 applications and UTK 57,000...there are tons of college-bound kids that don't apply to either.

Wait a few years until the graduation rates start coming in for UTK's fall 2023 entering class and beyond, which were selected from much stronger applicant pools than previous classes. UTK will be a top 50 school.

Yeah...sure it will. I doubt you understand how the rankings work if you think that will move it up 55 slots in the rankings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

Texas is top 6%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public? Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.

Texas is top 6%

Started as top 10% and gradually dropped as the rule generated more applications. Same will happen at UTK.

[Anonymous]

The Tennessee booster hasn’t posted any sources to validate their claims which means they could be a troll. Is this a kid that found DCUM?