Reply to Help me better understand Southern Cal universities & colleges

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Help me better understand Southern Cal universities & colleges"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OOS students have higher admit rates than in-state students because fewer of them actually end up matriculating. A stunning number of families don't look at the UC price tag and assume there'll bee some sort of aid available to them. At the end of the day, when they're considering a not-UCLA/UCB school in the UC system at $85,000 per year, they end up deciding to go to a private school or their in-state option.

If the yield were higher for OOS students, the admit rate would drop. As a concrete example, note that the yield rate for UCLA/UCB is much higher than the other schools, and their OOS admit rate is either the same as in-state (UCLA) or even lower (UCB).[/quote]

Admit data is different than enrollment data. Regardless of why anyway, the admit rate is higher for OOS.

IMO the issue really isn’t that the admit rate is so much higher but that a similar profile yet lower stat and EC kid from OOS can bump a much higher, more qualified kid from in state. This isn’t right.

I almost wish the UCs would auction off a number of spots with the lowest bid starting at 1M. This way they could get the money they need, reduce OOS in half so only the best and brightest come for geographical diversity and better serve the CA residents that are funding them. If your kid doesn’t have more impressive stats than an in state student then you are free to go to USC, Pomona, Claremont, Stanford etc. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics