<p>i hear that due to the economy, people who are instate for colleges have a much higher chance of getting in? what are your thoughts?</p>
<p>I think it’s not necessarily because of the economy, it is because the university wants to accommodate as many qualified in-state residents as possible. The in-state vs out-of-state acceptance rates are posted on their website: [University</a> of Delaware Fast Facts | admissions.udel.edu](<a href=“http://admissions.udel.edu/fastfacts]University”>http://admissions.udel.edu/fastfacts).</p>
<p>On the other hand, if the universities are interested in maximizing their revenue, especially in these times of budget cutting and endowments earning less, admitting more OOS kids would seemingly be the way to go, I would think.</p>
<p>I would respectfully disagree. That is why they have the program at UDEL that is specifically called Commitment to Delawareans. The taxpayers do support the University and have a right to expect some return on their investment. BTW, I am OOS.</p>
<p>As I recall, about 2/3 of student body at Delaware comes from OOS. If Del really wanted to give their taxpayers a ROI ( return on investment ), I would think that they would switch it like UMd and UVa and have 2/3 of the body from I/S.</p>
<p>There was a front page article in our local newspaper (Maryland) several weeks ago that talked about this very subject. Universities nationwide are attempting to attract out of state students to boost their revenue. OOS students pay more than three times what in state students pay. It is bottom dollar, plain and simple. Colleges have become big business.</p>
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Delaware couldn’t get another couple thousand academically qualified in-state students to enroll even if it wanted to, which it does. The Commitment to Delawareans is not the minimum standard, merely the minimum for quasi-guaranteed admission.</p>
<p>From the cited webpage above, 69% of in-state applicants were admitted to the main campus, another 25% to a branch campus (probably due to academic deficiencies). That means that only the bottom 8% of the applicant pool was outright rejected. I know only one person who was rejected from UD, and he had a disciplinary record.</p>
<p>The reason U DEl has so many out of staters is because of the population of the state compared to the size of the two main state universities. There simply are not that many high school applicants in Delaware. At least that is what admissions told our visiting group last year.</p>