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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

[b]57K is huge! That's similar to UMd CP.[/b]

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

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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"?[/quote]

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