<p>just wondering...does anybody know how many OOS applicants there were last year?</p>
<p>Not specifically. Over the last few years, however, the number of OOS applicants has been in the range of 11,000. Based on trends, I would guess the number to be between 11,000 and 12,000.</p>
<p>And out of the 11,000, they only accept 750?</p>
<p>18% (number of oos admits allowed by law) of 4000 total admits would be about 720.</p>
<p>4,000 (closer to 3800) is approximately the number of students that will be in the class of 2012, but UNC will accept more than that because they know that not everyone they accept will attend UNC. Over the years they have figured out how many to accept OOS to get the !8% yield that they are allowed. Their overall yield is generally above 50%, though I have no idea how the yield is for just the OOS students who are accepted. That means they may accept as many as 1,400 or so from OOS. That is definitely a lower acceptance rate than for the in-state applicants!</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for OSS has been around 18%. As irishforever pointed out, UNC (as with all schools) accepts more students than it expects to matriculate. My understanding is that the yield rate for OOS is substantially below that for in-state, somewhere in the range of 30%-35%.</p>
<p>Really? I would have thought that yield would be higher out of state because I believe if you're out of state, then things like recruited athlete and legacy status really do matter, and I know a lot of instate people who don't really want to go to UNC, but are applying anyway.</p>
<p>You must have an unusual set of friends. Last year of the in-state applicants who were accepted to UNC 68.8% chose to attend. On the other hand, based on the available numbers, only some 31% of OOS students who were accepted decided to enroll. I expect that most had other good alternatives and simply chose one of them, for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>I guess I do have a weird set of friends! lol.</p>
<p>I realize my sample size is quite small and that it probably isn't representative of instate applicants as a whole population.</p>