Selectivity of Midwestern Flagship Universities

College Search & Selection
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<p>This is for First Time in College (FTIC) Freshmen admittance:</p>

<p>University of Michigan - 42%</p>

<p>University of Wisconsin - 53%</p>

<p>University of Illinois - 69%</p>

<p>University of Missouri - 85%</p>

<p>Michigan State University - 70%</p>

<p>University of Minnesota - 53%</p>

<p>Ohio State University - 62%</p>

<p>Indiana University - 71%</p>

<p>Purdue University - 72%</p>

<p>University of Iowa - 82%</p>

<p>Iowa State University - 87%</p>

<p>Source: <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>UIUCs was around 60% actually not 69% and the once the 2009 admission data becomes available i expect it to go down even more.</p>

<p>Collegeboard is often not very reliable on stats. They are usually 5 or 6 years old.</p>

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<p>^ I thought CB data was behind 2 years. I entered selectivity data into my spreadsheet last spring and had to update quite a few recently.</p>

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<p>Yeah, collegeboard is about a year or two old. Horrible to know such, since it’s a site put well together.</p>

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<p>Hate to keep up the repetition, but college board data isn’t exactly up to date on this issue. </p>

<p>Minnesota’s is actually in the 40’s.</p>

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<p>College Board, at this point in the year, would be using information for the Class of 2011, I believe.</p>

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<p>On a Minnesota side note, at my orientation for their business school (Carlson) for the most recent class (Freshman fall 2009) the acceptance rate was only 24%. I was quite impressed that Carlson was actually that selective.</p>

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<p>Minnesota in 40’s, where did you get this information from?</p>

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<p>Another point: I’ve always been so surprised at how high Michigan’s acceptance rate is considering the caliber of its incoming student body. Maybe this is just because they have such a huge student body, but it has always seemed strange.</p>

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<p>Michigan’s acceptance rate is that high?</p>

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<p>UCLA - 23%</p>

<p>Berkeley - 22%</p>

<p>UCSD - 42%</p>

<p>Irvine - 49%</p>

<p>Santa Barbara - 49%</p>

<p>Davis - 53%</p>

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<p>University of Virginia - 37%</p>

<p>University of North Carolina - 34%</p>

<p>VA Tech - 65%</p>

<p>William & Mary - 34%</p>

<p>NC State - 59%</p>

<p>Georgia Tech - 61%</p>

<p>Clemson - 54%</p>

<p>University of Georgia - 56%</p>

<p>University of Florida - 39%</p>

<p>Florida State - 47%</p>

<p>University of South Carolina - 58%</p>

<p>Louisiana State - 73%</p>

<p>Auburn - 71%</p>

<p>University of Alabama - 60%</p>

<p>University of Arkansas - 58%</p>

<p>University of Tennessee - 65%</p>

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<p>Quality of Major state U’s</p>

<p>Major Faculty Awards
2006
Some of the faculty award programs included in this measure are: American Council of Learned Societies; Fulbright; Guggenheim; MacArthur Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Institutes of Health; Newberry Library; Pew Charitable Trusts; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Sloan Foundation; and Woodrow Wilson Fellows.</p>

<p>1 University of Michigan 51
2 University of California - San Diego 48
3 University of California - Berkeley 44
4 University of California - Los Angeles 42
4 University of Wisconsin 42
6 Pennsylvania State University 28
7 University of Texas 27
7 University of Washington 27
9 University of North Carolina 26
10 University of Florida 25
11 University of Minnesota 24
12 University of Pittsburgh 23
13 University of California - Irvine 22
13 University of Illinois 22
15 University of California - Davis 20
16 Rutgers the State University of NJ 18
16 University of Arizona 18
18 Ohio State University 17
18 Texas A&M University 17
18 University of Maryland 17
21 University of Virginia 16
22 University of Colorado 15
22 University of Oregon 15
24 Purdue University 14
24 University of California - Santa Barbara 14
26 Indiana University 12
26 Iowa State University 12
26 Stony Brook University - SUNY 12
26 University of Iowa 12
30 Michigan State University 11
31 University of Buffalo - SUNY 10
32 University of Kansas 9
33 University of Missouri 7
34 University of Nebraska 4</p>

<p>NAS Memebrs-2008</p>

<p>1 University of California - Berkeley 131
2 University of California - San Diego 67
3 University of Washington 44
3 University of Wisconsin 44
5 University of California - Los Angeles 31
6 University of Illinois 29
7 University of California - Santa Barbara 28
8 University of California - Irvine 22
9 University of California - Davis 21
10 University of Michigan 20
11 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 19
12 University of Arizona 16
12 University of Colorado 16
14 University of Texas 15
15 Pennsylvania State University 14
15 University of Maryland 14
17 Indiana University 11
17 University of Florida 11</p>

<p>National acad eng.</p>

<p>1 University of California - Berkeley 74 18 Pennsylvania State University 10
2 University of Texas 49 19 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 8
3 University of Illinois 29 19 University of California - Davis 8
4 University of California - Santa Barbara 25 19 University of California - Irvine 8
5 University of Michigan 22 22 University of Florida 7
6 Purdue University 20 23 Iowa State University 6
7 University of California - Los Angeles 19 24 University of North Carolina 5
7 University of Wisconsin 19 2 5 University of Kansas 4
9 University of California - San Diego 18 2 6 University of Pittsburgh 3
10 University of Minnesota 17 27 University at Buffalo - SUNY 2
11 Texas A&M University 15 28 Indiana University 1
11 University of Washington 15 2 8 Stony Brook University - SUNY 1
13 Ohio State University 11 28 University of Iowa 1
13 University of Arizona 11 28 University of Nebraska 1
13 University of Colorado 11 28 University of Oregon 1
13 University of Maryland 11 33 Michigan State University 0
13 University of Virginia 11</p>

<p>American Academy arts and aciences</p>

<p>1 University of California - Berkeley 186 17 University of Arizona 13
2 University of California - San Diego 87 17 University of California - Davis 13
3 University of California - Los Angeles 85 20 University of Colorado 12
4 University of Michigan 71 21 Stony Brook University - SUNY 11
5 University of Wisconsin 59 22 University of Iowa 10
6 University of Washington 46 23 University of Oregon 9
7 University of California - Irvine 35 23 University of Pittsburgh 9
8 University of North Carolina 33 25 Ohio State University 8
9 University of Illinois 30 25 University of Florida 8
10 University of Texas 28 27 Michigan State University 5
11 University of California - Santa Barbara 24 28 Purdue University 3
11 University of Minnesota 24 29 Texas A&M University 2
11 University of Virginia 24 29 University at Buffalo - SUNY 2
14 Indiana University 16 29 University of Kansas 2
14 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 16 29 University of Missouri 2
16 University of Maryland 14 33 Iowa State University 0
17 Pennsylvania State University 13 33 University of Nebraska</p>

<p>Combined Ranking all Academy Members</p>

<p>1 University of California - Berkeley 399 18 University of Maryland 40
2 University of California - San Diego 189 19 University of Colorado 39
3 University of California - Los Angeles 147 20 Ohio State University 30
4 University of Michigan 135 21 Indiana University 28
5 University of Wisconsin 130 21 University of Florida 28
6 University of Washington 129 23 University of Pittsburgh 26
7 University of Texas 93 24 Purdue University 24
8 University of Illinois 89 24 Texas A&M University 24
9 University of California - Santa Barbara 78 26 Stony Brook University - SUNY 22
10 University of California - Irvine 69 27 University of Iowa 19
11 University of North Carolina 64 28 University of Oregon 16
12 University of Minnesota 54 29 Michigan State University 12
13 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 50 30 Iowa State University 9
13 University of Virginia 50 31 University at Buffalo - SUNY 8
15 University of California - Davis 47 31 University of Kansas 8
16 University of Arizona 42 31 University of Missouri 8
17 Pennsylvania State University 41 34 University of Nebraska</p>

<p>Libraries</p>

<p>1 University of California - Berkeley 1 0,725,334
2 University of Illinois 1 0,712,706
3 University of Texas 9,323,252
4 University of Michigan 8,414,070
5 University of California - Los Angeles 8,272,112
6 University of Wisconsin 7,916,419
7 Indiana University 7,553,823
8 University of Washington 7,304,234
9 University of Minnesota 6,867,777
10 Ohio State University 6,244,095
11 University of North Carolina 6,154,365
12 University of Arizona 5,632,559
13 University of Virginia 5,465,077
14 Pennsylvania State University 5,220,080
15 University of Pittsburgh 5,116,305
16 Michigan State 4,915,621
17 University of Iowa 4,765,690
18 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4,462,249
19 University of Florida 4,229,717
20 University of Kansas 4,210,639
21 University of Colorado 3,843,458
22 Texas A&M University 3,739,081
23 University at Buffalo - SUNY 3,655,089
24 University of Maryland 3,623,376
25 University of California - Davis 3,599,983
26 University of Missouri 3,454,585
27 University of California - San Diego 3,360,442
28 University of Nebraska 3,171,134
29 University of California - Santa Barbara 2,914,539
30 University of Oregon 2,905,608
31 University of California - Irvine 2,778,921
32 Purdue University 2,504,803
33 Iowa State University 2,500,880
34 Stony Brook University - SUNY 2,240,758</p>

<p>Total R&D Exp (000s)</p>

<p>1 U. CA, San Francisco 842,840
2 U. WI Madison 840,672
3 U. CA, Los Angeles 823,083
4 U. MI all campuses 808,731
5 U. CA, San Diego 798,896
6 U. WA 756,787
7 OH State U. all campuses 720,206
8 PA State U. all campuses 652,144
9 U. MN all campuses 624,149
10 U. CA, Davis 600,508
11 U. FL 592,835
12 U. Pittsburgh all campuses 558,566
13 U. CA, Berkeley 552,365
14 TX A&M U. 543,888
15 U. AZ 531,753
16 U. CO all campuses 527,587
17 U. TX M. D. Anderson Cancer Ctr. 496,539
18 U. NC Chapel Hill 477,231
19 U. IL Urbana-Champaign 473,890
20 GA Institute of Technology all campuses 472,591
21 U. TX Austin 446,765
22 Purdue U. all campuses 415,172
23 U. Cincinnati all campuses 375,852
24 LA State U. all campuses 372,421
25 VA Polytechnic Institute and State U. 366,960</p>

<p><a href=“http://oirap.rutgers.edu/instchar/factpdf/aau08.pdf[/url]”>http://oirap.rutgers.edu/instchar/factpdf/aau08.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Michigan has to accept a lot of nonresidents, because its high price (and limited non-resident aid) means its yield on those admits is relatively low. Fortunately, it has a pretty deep applicant pool so it can do that and still have a strong student body. But it definitely boosts that acceptance rate. Keep in mind it also has about a 1/3 of the class filled with NonResidents.</p>

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<p>“Minnesota in 40’s, where did you get this information from?”</p>

<p>33,000 applicants this year, 5000 freshman spots, and based of the yield rate from last year, I believe the number of accepted students this year would have been 15K-16K max. So there you go. I’m not sure what Wisconsin’s most recent numbers look like, but as of right now, UMinn may be among the top three toughest schools to get into in the Big 10 (behind Northwestern and Michigan).</p>

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<p>Bick,</p>

<p>Still can’t go to the College Navigator site which shows UMiami’s selectivity trumps McUFs huh?</p>

<p>Hey before you go of trying to bring your Bernie “Big” Mac Big Lie tour to the Big 10 schools, why not answer some unfinished biz on Florida schools:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-miami-florida/732689-university-florida-president-cooks-rankings.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-miami-florida/732689-university-florida-president-cooks-rankings.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;