<p>What universities ranked by USNEWS ( with a number beside them) do not have a big fault factor for out of state students ( explain)?
Examples: Being a out of state student applying to Harvard University likely does not harm your chances.
Being a out of state student applying to Ohio State University- Columbus likely harm your chances.</p>
<p>Also from anyone, what is the out of state student experience like?</p>
<p>Out of State only matters for public. Private Universities don’t care at all. Public Us are tricky, most love full pay out of state (OSS), while others have limits on OOS students they can admit.</p>
<p>Can you tell us what the title of your first post is meant to say? I’m a tad confused.</p>
<p>^I think it should be:
What colleges does being an out-of-state applicant not harm your chances of admission?</p>
<p>IDK. Like SCFTW stated, it really depends.</p>
<p>Where do out of state don’t harm your chances with admission?</p>
<p>Where ( as in which university) do out of state ( as a out of state perspective student) don’t harm your chances with admission ( chances of admission is weighted equal as in state perspective students are).</p>
<p>College confidential limit to wording in thread title was a factor of my the thread title.</p>
<p>Well thanks for all the replies, looking forward to more.</p>
<p>UGA claims that OOS doesn’t hurt your admissions chances.</p>
<p>It never hurts your chances at private universities. In fact, it may help if you are from an underrepresented state.</p>
<p>It hurts your chances at public universities. Yes, they would rather have a full-pay OOS student than a non-full pay OOS student, but I have trouble believing there exists a public school where given two identical applicants, one instate and one OOS, the OOS would get in.</p>
<p>I’ll plug in U Delaware.</p>
<p>I don’t know about UGA ^ but generally…as a rule of thumb…admissions are slightly tougher for OOS, but it varies by different degrees of flexibility. For example, if you’re OOS and trying to apply to UT, or as I found out…Michigan…you might as well save yourself the application fee if you have below a 3.9 gpa. </p>
<p>However if you’re going to apply to a lower-ranked flagship that still has a good reputation (for instance: Florida State, Oklahoma State, Alabama, Ole Miss, Missouri, etc) there will be a difference, but it won’t be a big obstacle. OSU openly shares their automatic admission guidelines, so with a 3.0 gpa and a 25 ACT or 1090 SAT in-state applicants are automatically admitted. The only difference for me (OOS) was I had to have a 3.25 gpa, which I more than satisfied… so that’s a difference of .25. I would say that’s probably typical of the flagships that are good, but not Top 50 good…which will probably be most of them.</p>
<p>If UGA claims that residency makes no difference for admissions, I’d go for it if I was from a neighboring state. Although it’s no top 50 school, UGA is probably way better than any public school in SC, TN, or AL in my opinion (I know I’m gonna get attacked by all the Clemson people for saying that) and it’s pretty laid-back. Great college town. They probably offer a lot of decent scholarships just for OOS students to alleviate the extra tuition costs.</p>
<p>UGA only has 11% out of state students so it’s probably harder to get into UGA than Clemson (Clemson has 33% OOS)</p>
<p>I would say Delaware since 60% of their student population is from out of state (understandably)</p>
<p>Big, some of the SUNYs, especially the highly regarded Binghamton, allow OOS in with lower stats than in-state, and with bargain tuition, to boot. Hopefully new chancellor will change.</p>
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<p>VT if the instate is from NoVa.</p>
<p>For any school of interest, you can look up its “Common Data Set” (just Google the school name plus “Common Data Set”). In section C7, you should find a table that indicates the importance of various factors, including “state residency”. The University of Virginia, for example, has this box checked under the “very important” column (not surprisingly, since it is a state-supported university).</p>
<p>Texas public colleges MUST accept the applicants who rank in the top 10% of their senior classes. For that reason, the huge majority of students at UT will be instate students. I think, but am not sure, that Texas A&M isn’t quite as hard to get into if you’re OOS since fewer instate kids want to go there; UT is the favorite. </p>
<p>I didn’t even apply to any Texas colleges; I want to explore the rest of the country! Good luck to you and feel free to PM me if you want to know more.</p>
<p>Most private colleges. If the demographics of a private college seem biased towards in-state applicants, it’s probably self-selection more than anything else.</p>
<p>University of Vermont has more OOS students than in state students. (UVM)
And no football team.</p>
<p>I believe that the University of Rhode Island has more oos than in-state</p>
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<p>NoVA is in Virginia… what are you trying to say?</p>