<p>I looked on the Common app, and it said that 53% of students there are OOS.</p>
<p>That’s old info; that figure has dropped below 40%.</p>
<p>Just search the forum. This has been discussed a million times.</p>
<p>So Stanford has been admitting more instate students than before? Shouldn’t it be trending the other way?</p>
<p>I misspoke–the in-state student % has dropped below 40%. OOS representation is more like 2/3.</p>
<p>Isn’t it also that a lot more Californians apply? I know a lot of East Coasters are skeptical about going to school on the other side of the country.</p>
<p>I think that’s part of it. Most of the applicants are from California, because Stanford’s location is really convenient for them. (In many situations, it’s Stanford or UC Berkeley).</p>
<p>It’s definitely not “most” of the applicants. For 2012, I know that some 37% of the applicants were from California, and about 33% of the class was Californian.</p>
<p>^ doesn’t that mean Californians have a 89% of getting in? (or my math is really flawed)</p>
<p>Those are proportions, not absolute numbers. If there are 31,000 applicants and 37% are Californian, that’s 11,470. 33% of those admitted are Californian (the 33% is actually for those who matriculate, but let’s assume it’s the same), so that’s about 800. 800 / 11470 = 6.97%. Sounds about right, but that doesn’t really tell us much, since to say “they have X% chance of getting in” would require that admission be a random event (i.e. the admissions officers choose X amount of students randomly among the applicant pool). Admission is not random.</p>