I am an Out of State student from Texas and applied Early Action.
GPA (UW): 3.4
GPA (W): 4.0
Rank: Top 25%
SAT (New): 1200 (620m+580r)
SAT (Old): 1700: (630m+570r+500w)
AP US History
AP Physics
AP US Government
AP Macroeconomics
AP Environmental Science
3 Years of Foreign Language
Mostly Honors classes throughout HS
EC:
Peer Assistance & Leadership (President), National Honor Society, Rho Kappa, National Technical Honor Society, Ping Pong Club
2 Jobs through out HS
Volunteered at Habitat for Humanity, Feeding the Homeless, Food Bank, Local Baseball Fields, Veterans Home, Challenged Baseball League
@antdujanovic it’s always hard to tell exactly what a school is thinking. You are an out of state student which slightly hurts your chances since it’s a state school. Your standardized test scores fall in the 25th percentile of their admitted students and your GPA is good but slightly low. However, you do have good extracurriculars and you have demonstrated a harder course load which the school will be happy to see. I think you have a chance at getting in but I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high!
Is this there a certain reason my chances as an out of state student go down when applying to a state school?
@antdujanovic I’ve been wondering about this too. You would think that they would prioritize OOS students for more tuition money.
@antdujanovic @beastbro the reasons applicants who are OOS for ANY state school have a harder time getting in is that the state mandates that a certain percentage of admitted students be from the state. For example, a college may have to have 75% of each class be from in state (this is just an example not an actual number–it varies state to state) For this reason, it is always easier to get into state schools if you are a resident of that state
@keanne20 I learned recently that (for OSU at least) the out-of-state aspect doesn’t really factor into the admissions decision. Yes, there is a mandated percentage of in-state students because it is a land grant institution. However, since in-state tuition is cheaper, students are far more likely to attend a university within their own state than out of state (and public universities are purposefully designed this way). In addition, those who apply to out-of-state schools tend to apply to more than one of them, so the odds of them choosing OSU out of that bunch is lower than an in-state student picking an in-state school, if that makes sense. I would be curious to know the ratio of out-of-state students who apply to those who are accepted and those who actually attend.
Some statistics: http://enrollmentservices.osu.edu/report.pdf
For 2016 enrollment, they admitted 24240 from 49388 applicants, but only 7885 enrolled. That is around 32.5% of admitted students were actually enrolled. Unfortunately there is no separate statistics for out of state students
@ccyen328 Very interesting. That does suggest to me that schools like OSU wouldn’t be too concerned about accepting “too many” students because such a high percentage of them don’t actually choose to attend, although I heard that an unexpectedly high number of students chose to attend this year.