<p>What is the GPA for in state and out and does it vary for school. UC have to allow a set number from California. Howerver, out of state pays more tuition.</p>
<p>In general, in-state admit rate is much lower, but student yield is significantly higher; OOS / international admit rate is generally higher, while student yield is significantly lower.</p>
<p>For CSU, the minimum baseline qualification eligibility index is higher for out-of-state students (3502 versus 2900 for GPA-and-SAT-based eligibility index). Some of the most selective majors and campuses are more selective than the out-of-state minimum, so in-state versus out-of-state does not matter in those cases like it does for less selective majors and campuses.</p>
<p>For UC, the minimum GPA is 3.4 for out-of-state versus 3.0 for in-state. However, most UCs are more selective than that, so that minimum tends to be irrelevant.</p>
<p>Admission rates do not tell the whole story of selectivity, since the strength of applicant pools differs.</p>
<p>OOS applicants to UC tend to mostly apply to, and mostly be admitted to UC Berkeley and UCLA. Since the UCs are subsidized by state taxes, there are some that take issue with this (overall UC keeps a certain percentage in-state; but the percentage of OOS allocated by campus varies widely, with UCLA and Berkeley having the largest percentage of OOS- there was a step-function increase at the height of the current recession, when state funding was curtailed). </p>
<p>The entrance requirements above the minimums are demand-driven and vary from campus to campus, as do the acceptance and admission rates. OOS were 15.5% in 2012 UC-wide. In 2014, OOS are 20% UC-wide, with 30% of UCLA and UC Berkeley freshman from OOS. UC Merced have 1.2% OOS.</p>
<p><a href=“Percentage of out-of-state UC students to rise again”>http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-nonresidents-20140723-story.html</a></p>
<p>It is indeed interesting that UC has lower in state admission rate than OOS. However, the admission stat for in state students is still lower than OOS. I guess this is mainly due to the population of CA.</p>
<p>Since you are talking about 34 schools, It varies from near impossible(UCB - 4.3 GPA 2200 SAT) to about 2.9 GPA and 1180 M&R SAT for Monterrey and other non-impacted CSUs.
The trick for most out of state applicants is completing the a-g course requirement. There’s a required art or music course many applicants lack. If you don’t have it, you are out -regardless of GPA/SAT.</p>
<p>interesting numbers… in contrast, UT Austin OOS is in the 9% range. I had not realized UCs went so high OOS.</p>
<p>Here is the 2014 table comparing acceptance rates across the UCs for IS, OOS, and international applicants. The results are interesting, as others have noted.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table2.pdf”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table2.pdf</a></p>
<p>@1203southview, the recession really hit California, especially the schools, very hard. Many companies during this time, in fact, moved to, or expanded in, Austin from California.</p>
<p>UC responded by increasing seats available to OOS/International, and claimed it did not affect IS applicants because capacity also was being increased. There was much deferred maintenance, increased class sizes, etc. at the schools. As you can see, it did affect the mix at Berkeley and UCLA, yet the quality and reputations seem to be holding (if not increasing).</p>
<p>While people always think going to college in their own state or their own country will be somewhat of a backup, when there is so much demand, it can be hard to get to the best schools in these categories. It is nice that Texas, with a smaller population that CA, holds 91% of the spaces (rather than 70%) at such a prestigious school for TX residents, who have paid the taxes to subsidize and grow the school to its current level of prestige.</p>