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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Where are you getting $85K?

Over three quarters, the OOS tuition supplement at Berkeley and UCLA is around $34K total … so OOS 2025 applicants would be looking at a total cost of $70 - $75K, max. per year. If dorm living is dropped for apartment or Greek life housing, $65 - $70K is very achievable. And yes, that includes airfares for move-in / out, holidays, etc.

I get that $70K is still a lot, but citing $85K seems intentionally dishonest.[/quote]

Yes this is correct I was going to write the same thing. OOS for the UC (and the Cal States are even lower) is still much lower than the price of places like USC[/quote]

USC also doesn’t lock-in the COA the way the UCs do, so the $101K COA for this Fall’s freshman class at USC (the COA published by USC doesn’t include a credible transportation assumption for OOS students) will likely balloon to at least $110K by their senior year.

$420K vs. $280K

So when you see posts asserting that the OOS costs at Berkeley or UCLA are basically the same as the costs at USC or Stanford, just know that you’re being fed inaccurate information by someone who is either uninformed or has an agenda.[/quote]

I think just ill-informed, like many posters[/quote]

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