<p>of course not all oos students have better stats than instate students. but the oos students, on a whole, have better stats than instate students. There are many things which come into play.</p>
<p>There are about 1000 OOS students per class. But they aren’t all created equally. Take out your minorities, athletes, and most importantly, legacies, and you’ll find the remaining batch of white kids from new jersey/new york/connecticutt who have none of those advantages are significantly more qualified, overall, than the rest of the student body.</p>