<p>Curious about state schools...Is it harder to get into the best State U from out of state than from in state? I mean, do Virginians have a better chance of acceptance than non-Virginians? How about Michigan? Or Penn State? I know UNC has a charter with the state requiring 80% of its students be from NC, but I'm not sure about others.</p>
<p>Yes for most out of state students it's harder for them to get into in state schools. For example only about 5% get into the UC schools from out of state. I'm from Texas, it's the same way at our state schools.</p>
<p>Yes, it's harder for most state schools, especially the good ones like UCs and UVA. However, IMO the biggest thing not talked about is how much harder getting financial aid is. It doesn't make much sense for a lot to pay what an OOS will cost. Low EFCs can get better aid at privates, high EFC kids end up paying as though they were going to a private school..</p>
<p>suze, I agree with you. It really would depend on how high the family's efc is, and the COA for OOS students.</p>
<p>It is USUALLY more difficult to get into state schools from out of state than in state (especially really spectacular state schools like UVa and UNC-Chapel Hill), but there are exceptions.</p>
<p>University of Delaware is one of the exceptions. Nobody seems to live in Delaware, so there's lots of room for other people on their campus. More than half the kids there are from out of state (mostly NJ or Maryland, neither of which is all that far out of state), and when my son visited, the kids were told at the information session that there's very little preference for in-staters. </p>
<p>Another school that doesn't discriminate against out of staters is Penn State. It says so right on their Web site. You want to come from out of state and pay more money, they'll take it.</p>
<p>It's my subjective impression, based on my kids' friends' experiences, that it's easier for an out of stater to get in to Michigan than UVa. The competition for the few out of state slots at UVa is intense.</p>
<p>UVA's website has its instate and out-of-state acceptance rates somewhere -- another thread here on CC posted the link sometime in the last week or so. There was quite a difference between the two, although I don't remember what it was.</p>
<p>And some states mandate the percentage of out of state students their state schools can take. In NC, I believe it's between 15% and 17%. Some State U's also give in-state tuition to out of state students if they have a certain GPA/SAT. While U Delaware says they don't give an edge to Delaware students (except for the in-state discount), they do know the Delaware High Schools pretty well and their rigor.</p>
<p>for UVa data: <a href="http://www.web.virginia.edu/IAAS/data_catalog/institutional/historical/historical.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.web.virginia.edu/IAAS/data_catalog/institutional/historical/historical.htm</a></p>
<p>In NC it's 17 or 18% of the entering class. But there has been a recent change so that (and I may not have it right) OOS applicants who get full scholarships don't count towards the percentage limitation. OOS applicants may wish to consider transferring into UNC-Chapel Hill after a year.</p>
<p>Marian- I read an article that said 98% of the students that apply from Delaware are accepted into the State University. The acceptance rate is much lower for kids from MD and Nj that apply.</p>
<p>keep in mind theres a difference between the percentage of students at a school who are out of state and the acceptance percentage of out of state students - many people get this mixed up. Although both UVa and UNC have similar numbers in that area (about 33% oos at UVa and 32% acceptance rate for OOS and 18% for UNC and about a 20% acceptance rate for OOS applicants) - I expect this is not the norm to every state school.</p>
<p>More students are accepted OOS to the elite state schools because the yield is lower - many students applying to UVa and UNC from OOS are using them as backups to top privates. I.E. UVa's overall yield is about 55% but only about 30% for OOS students.</p>