<p>Hey, so I've heard/read that the differences between admission statistics for out-of-state and in-state students at Berkeley is the like the difference between night and day.</p>
<p>Does anybody have any statistics/insight/info on average scores or acceptance rates for students applying out of state? </p>
<p>I live in Oregon. California is soo close : ( I think I should count as a semi-resident..</p>
<p>Haha, lol at semi-resident.</p>
<p>OOS stats are subject to heavy debate, but one thing is for sure: It's OOS acceptance rate is deceivingly high, bc the pool is largly self selecting. OOS students constitute about 8% of the freshman class, and around 24% of OOS students are accepted. Avg. SAT scores tend to be 2150+, but most commonly well into the 2200s. uw GPAs are around 3.9. Hope that helped!</p>
<p>The difference between in-state and OOS statistics really isn't that big, because in-state students are already very, very strong. OOS is more like an Ivy, they say. As vc08 said, the OOS pool is pretty self-selective, yet the acceptance rate is still low -- 20%, and they make up less than 10% of those accepted, and only about 10% of the whole student body.</p>
<p>The statistics for OOSers isn't released, but generally they're very high -- high SAT I/II, high GPA, etc.</p>
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<p>If the data is not released, how do we really know if they are "commonly in the 2200s"? Plus, I find it hard to believe that the OOS kids have Ivy-level stats; otherwise they'd likely go there or to Stanford or a private school that thows out losta merit money. Yes, the pool is self-selecting, particularly since OOS finaid is not good, but has anyone seen any actual numbers to make a factual statement?</p>
<p>Yes, I have seen actual numbers, in an email that was released to certain Cal students at the end of the last admissions cycle. It has not been released for the general public, however.</p>
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<p>I don't. In-state is competitive enough, much less out-of-state. (Plus, you can see myriad examples of such here on CC -- students who get into schools like Cornell and Brown and even MIT, but not Berkeley OOS. With over 45,000 applicants, they have to be very selective, which is why only 10% or so of those accepted are OOS.)</p>
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Plus, I find it hard to believe that the OOS kids have Ivy-level stats; otherwise they'd likely go there or to Stanford or a private school that thows out losta merit money.
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<p>Well, the OP was talking about admissions statistics, not matriculation statistics. You can apply to Berkeley from OOS, get admitted, and then decide not to go, in favor of one of the other schools that you'd mentioned.</p>