<p>I caan think of any state schools that are more selective than they are</p>
<p>i think so because they only accept like ~35% of people, and of those ~35%, 80-82% must be in-state (it's NC's rule or something)
so as one senior put it, applying to UNC-Chapel Hill as an OSS-ter is like applying to Princeton</p>
<p>Ummm...more along the lines of WUSTL or Northwestern.</p>
<p>when i visited, admissions told me acceptance rate for out-of-staters is 17%</p>
<p>that sucks</p>
<p>its interesting in that of the 35% total acceptance, if 17 % are oos, then that means that to be accepted oos gives a 6% chance. Those are huge odds to beat--even harder than say most of the ivy leagues and other top tier schools.</p>
<p>arsh: Be careful with statistics like that :) The yield rates for in-state and out-of-state are different, as are the numbers of applicants in each pool. Unfortunately, the only numbers I can find for such things all broken out are from 1990, which is decidedly ancient. Although there is this:
[quote=<a href="http://admissions.unc.edu/faq/applying.htm#outofstate">http://admissions.unc.edu/faq/applying.htm#outofstate</a>]
In recent years, approximately 19,000 students have applied for freshmen admission at Carolina. Almost 11,000 of those students were considered out-of-state for admission purposes. Approximately 2,100 those students received admission offers. The remaining 8,000 applicants were North Carolina residents. Usually about 4,600 of those students are admitted. These admission offers are targeted at yielding a freshman class of 3,700.
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So out of state admit rate is around 19% and in state is around 58%.</p>
<p>We were told by an admissions rep that oos admit rate fluctuates between 15-17%. Not sure the admit rate for oos into Honors. At the local accepted students dinner, I remember thinking the number was ridiculously low, but for the life of me, I cannot remember it.</p>
<p>I have heard UNC and UVa are of the most difficult for oos candidates to enter.</p>
<p>Also...I believe the oos admit rate is the percentage of all oos applicants, not of all instate and oos applicants. </p>
<p>And selectivity is a funny thing. It is a parameter that can be rendered meaningless by mass mailings of 'we love you, please apply' letters and easy application through online/common forms or even pre-completed forms. I wouldn't pick a school based merely on selectivity.</p>
<p>california schools...especially UCLA...are ridiculous to get into out of state...ucla has 95% in state students or some crazy statistic...most california schools do...but USC is only 60% in state i think</p>
<p>actually, according to the UCLA website, the statistics are a bit different. of the 3,822 out of state applicants for the class of 2009, 839 were admitted, giving an acceptance rate of about 22%. Perhaps UCLA is a bit more self-selecting than UNC, but it seems that UNC is much more rigid in its quotas for instate population than UCLA. Other UCs may be different. </p>
<p>USC is not a public school, and therefore being instate would not give you preferential treatment.</p>
<p>I'd say so. I transferred into UT mccombs from UC riverside (54 qtr units 3.85), but got waitlisted at unc. I had ****ty high school record, and texas was my first choice.</p>
<p>NimeshShah what year were you that tried transferring into UNC?</p>
<p>I think the only reason I was able to get in as a junior transfer was because I was accepted as an in-state transfer. My transcript wasnt so remarkable that they would have accepted me as an out of stater, I don't think.</p>
<p>sophomore. correction, I applied with with 37 qtr units and a 3.85, now I have 54 with a 3.75. But with texas I had two essays which I think really helped me and I explained my upward trend and other influential things, whereas Carolina I wasn't given the chance.</p>
<p>Wow a 3.85 sounds high, I'm surprised you were waitlisted. I'm hoping to transfer there also after I receive my AA and I have around a 3.85. I wonder how that will go now after hearing that you were waitlisted.</p>
<p>slipper... i know over 5 people that got into northwestern and not unc</p>
<p>besides nw and wash u are private so residency doesn't matter</p>
<p>so which schools are the easiest to get in as out of states?</p>
<p>west virginia</p>
<p>UNC-Pembroke.</p>