UTK the next elite public?

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Anonymous wrote:I know several people from this area heading there in a week or so.

I think it has become the next hot southern school.


My DC was admitted in 2022. We visited UTK and Knoxville was unappealing. We thought DC would love it, but it was a miss. Loved other southern schools and towns so much more. Make sure you visit.
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Anonymous wrote:I know several people from this area heading there in a week or so.

I think it has become the next hot southern school.


My DC was admitted in 2022. We visited UTK and Knoxville was unappealing. We thought DC would love it, but it was a miss. Loved other southern schools and towns so much more. Make sure you visit.


Agree…was shocked at how dumpy the campus looked…the fraternity houses are at least an aesthetic blight (though may serve their purpose OK).
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Do people really call it “UTK” now, or is this just a weird DCUM thing?

I grew up in Alabama, and the flagship university of the state to our north was always just called “Tennessee.” Not UT, not UTK, just “Tennessee”—with the “University of” part implied.
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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.


57K is huge! That's similar to UMd CP.

UT Austin has only a few more applicants, in a state with 6x the population.


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Anonymous wrote:Do people really call it “UTK” now, or is this just a weird DCUM thing?

I grew up in Alabama, and the flagship university of the state to our north was always just called “Tennessee.” Not UT, not UTK, just “Tennessee”—with the “University of” part implied.


www.utk.edu is the website for a place that calls itself "UT", so...
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Since when is Tennessee known as UTK?
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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.


57K is huge! That's similar to UMd CP.

UT Austin has only a few more applicants, in a state with 6x the population.



I don't really understand your point. UTK has 29,000 undergrads and UMD 30,600. UMD had just over 60,000 applications.

University of Pittsburgh had 58,000 applications with 20,000 undergrads.

So, I guess they are all "huge"?
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Anonymous wrote:I know several people from this area heading there in a week or so.

I think it has become the next hot southern school.


My DC was admitted in 2022. We visited UTK and Knoxville was unappealing. We thought DC would love it, but it was a miss. Loved other southern schools and towns so much more. Make sure you visit.


Which southern schools did you like more?
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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.


57K is huge! That's similar to UMd CP.

UT Austin has only a few more applicants, in a state with 6x the population.



I don't really understand your point. UTK has 29,000 undergrads and UMD 30,600. UMD had just over 60,000 applications.

University of Pittsburgh had 58,000 applications with 20,000 undergrads.

So, I guess they are all "huge"?


It was in reference to the Texas comparison
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Do people really call it “UTK” now, or is this just a weird DCUM thing?

I grew up in Alabama, and the flagship university of the state to our north was always just called “Tennessee.” Not UT, not UTK, just “Tennessee”—with the “University of” part implied.



No, we call it UT.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Since when is Tennessee known as UTK?


It’s not. It is UT.
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Anonymous wrote:I know several people from this area heading there in a week or so.

I think it has become the next hot southern school.


My DC was admitted in 2022. We visited UTK and Knoxville was unappealing. We thought DC would love it, but it was a miss. Loved other southern schools and towns so much more. Make sure you visit.


Which southern schools did you like more?


Auburn, South Carolina, Clemson, Ole Miss, SMU and Tulane. Also liked Indiana up north. Ended up at Tulane, but SMU was a close 2nd.
Anonymous
I live in TN and worked for the UT system for years. My child will not be applying to UTK, as the state legislatures is insane. It is not a good state for women, minorities or the LGBTQ community.
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Anonymous wrote:I live in TN and worked for the UT system for years. My child will not be applying to UTK, as the state legislatures is insane. It is not a good state for women, minorities or the LGBTQ community.


Give it a rest.
Anonymous
My mom used to live near Knoxville and I went down there a lot. That school is lame. It usually has a good football team, that’s it. The idea that its acceptance rate can make it elite is simply ridiculous.
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