OOS applicants

<p>This is probably out there somewhere, but does anyone know how many applications come from out of staters? I saw an article from 2008 saying that that year's increase was mainly due to in-staters. What about acceptance rate? I know the school has a requirement of 65% in-state (though not quite sure how that is applied). Thanks</p>

<p>found this at the WaPo (from fall 2009)</p>

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<p>[State</a> colleges accepting more nonresidents to keep up revenue - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111301940.html]State”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/13/AR2009111301940.html)</p>

<p>can’t vouch for the accuracy of the numbers, obviously, but if they are terribly wrong hopefully W&M Admissions will correct them.</p>

<p>Those numbers are a bit misleading. Let me try to put them in context.</p>

<p>W&M has always received more actual applications from OOS students than IS students so we’ve always been more selective for OOS students (because they make up a smaller percentage of our class and because they’re a larger percentage of our applicant pool).</p>

<p>In recent years, the number of IS applicants has increased at a higher rate than the number of OOS applicants but our class size has changed only slightly and our in-state to out-of-state ratio hasn’t changed so now there are more IS students competing for essentially the same number of spaces. Thus we’ve had to get more selective with our in-state students.</p>

<p>Last year we admitted 32% of those who applied. We admitted 38% of the IS students who applied and 27% of the OOS students who applied.</p>

<p>Hope this is helpful and provides more context to help make sense of the numbers.</p>

<p>Thanks W&M. I was actually hoping you’d respond. That’s the kind of answer I was looking for.</p>

<p>Anytime klpawl. That’s what we’re here for.</p>