<p>Sorry, was concentrating on the more prestigious ones. Looks like U of I is like that too! Wow!</p>
<p>As lopsided as the public university numbers look, I think that these numbers don't include transfers. As transfers from in-state CCs are a big part of the college populations at some colleges, eg, California publics, the numbers become even more overweight to the home state.</p>
<p>The primary purpose of state public universities is to educate in-state citizens.</p>
<p>Yes, I don't see what's so odd about publics having a very high % of in-state students.</p>
<p>With every passing day I hate living in Maryland more and more...it really kills all your chances of college success!</p>
<p>There are NO freshman from California at UNC?</p>
<p>Shrinkrap-
I only listed the top 10 or so feeder states for each school. There may be small numbers from other states.</p>
<p>On Cornell, if you only include the endowed (non-contract) divisions, the NYS number falls to 461. Only other breakouts I see are regional, rather than state-specific, but perhaps 180 Californians. On general admissions issue, many top schools do admit regionally and is a hardly hidden fact that coming from North Dakota, Arkansas, Alabama, etc. is a significant admissions advantage. California is increasingly more of a wash especially over last 10-15 years but most states outside of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic continue to have some admissions advantage at the Ivies. Conversely, Harvard is mindful of maintaining good Massachusetts ties, and (it seems to me) Yale similar, but less so than Cantabs, in Connecticut.</p>
<p>kyledavid80,</p>
<p>It's not the very high % that's surprising to me. It's the low number (not percentage) of OOS students that's surprising, considering how large the publics are. I originally thought since publics are so huge, even small % would translate to some decent size. I didn't expect the number would be lower than the numbers for just about every top privates which are significantly smaller to begin with. I guess I just didn't know the OOS % was <em>that</em> low.</p>