Schools with straightforward admissions

[Anonymous]

This is a spin-off of the transparency thread, where someone wrote—

I happen to work for public R-1 university that has straight-forward admissions--if you graduate with a certain GPA, you're in. We're ranked in the top 200 and provide a great education for a good value. There are several other universities just like us.

I would like to know, what are some T200 public R-1s with straightforward admissions? I am particularly interested in guarantees, like the quoted PP mentioned, so that I don’t have to deal with any gamesmanship about yield protection.

Asking for a self-described “boring” high stats kid from the HS class of 2026 who becomes despondent every time she sees the word “holistic”.

[Anonymous]

I would have said places like Colorado, but that AI kid was denied. LOL.

[Anonymous]

VCU (US News #136) auto admits students with a 3.5 GPA or who are in the top 10% of their class.

[Anonymous]

Indiana

[Anonymous]

UT auto-admits top 5% of public school kids (was top 10% when this started years ago) but it doesn't guarantee them the major they want.

[Anonymous]

Iowa and Iowa State. You can plug your GPA and SAT/ACT into a formula on their website and know if you're in.

[Anonymous]

Until ~now, Iowa and Iowa State offered automatic admission to OOS students with an RAI score of 255 or higher (265 for engineering). https://www.iowaregents.edu/institutions/higher-education-links/regent-admission-index

I suspect they still do, even if they no longer advertise it on this page. And they're quick-response rolling admission schools, so an early-applying strong student should have an acceptance or two in hand in September regardless.

[Anonymous]

KU has transparent (and pretty modest) guaranteed admission requirements.

[Anonymous]

Most public Us outside of a few states have pretty high admit rates even if it isn't guaranteed, with the caveat that programs like CS, business, nursing typically are more competiitve.

Some that come to mind...
Delaware
West Virginia
Arizona
Iowa
Indiana

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a spin-off of the transparency thread, where someone wrote—

I happen to work for public R-1 university that has straight-forward admissions--if you graduate with a certain GPA, you're in. We're ranked in the top 200 and provide a great education for a good value. There are several other universities just like us.

I would like to know, what are some T200 public R-1s with straightforward admissions? I am particularly interested in guarantees, like the quoted PP mentioned, so that I don’t have to deal with any gamesmanship about yield protection.

Asking for a self-described “boring” high stats kid from the HS class of 2026 who becomes despondent every time she sees the word “holistic”.

Basically, every university ranked 100+ on USNews...and a bunch ranked between 51-100 like Michigan State.

I don't get why people think the information is hidden. All these schools have very high admit rates of 75%+ and many are 90%+.

Literally, just go to USNews and search for universities above whatever admissions threshold you want...and then pick several.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most public Us outside of a few states have pretty high admit rates even if it isn't guaranteed, with the caveat that programs like CS, business, nursing typically are more competiitve.

Some that come to mind...
Delaware
West Virginia
Arizona
Iowa
Indiana

I replied in the thread the OP is spinning off of. Our DC is at one of these schools, in one of three “more” competitive programs.

You just have to step out of the bubble a bit…and you’ll realize the bubble is very small but pretty thick so it’s sometimes hard to see otherwise. The “rest” of America isn’t quite so cloistered.

[Anonymous]

Georgetown and Rice. They are all about stats, less EC-sensitive.

[Anonymous]

in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers.

All Canadian schools do this.

almost all colleges globally do this.