<p>I’ll second bxkxrxxx’s recommendation of University of Delaware.</p>
<p>Great size, ivy-feel campus, competitive sports & only hour & half to the ocean!
What are you interested in for a major?</p>
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<p>What I’m saying is that while it may be easier for most in state people to get into VT than OOS, it’s harder for someone from Northern Virginia (or at least parts of it) to get in than OOS.</p>
<p>UIUC, it has almost all instate kids, but barely any out of staters even apply.</p>
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<p>Do you know any reasons why?</p>
<p>Penn State says it is a level playing field for IS and OOS admissions…</p>
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<p>Most OOS kids don’t want to spend four years in Champaign-Urbana when they could be in Madison/Columbus/Ann Arbor. Anddd the Out of State tuition+fees+everything else sums up to like 38k, which is out of most people’s reach. I also think the university tries to keep it like 90% in state.</p>
<p>Byt they say they evaluate in state and out of state kids equally for admission. Being from out of state might actually be a helping hand there.</p>
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<p>That makes no sense other than the fact that NoVA is the most moneyed part of the state and most of them go to UVA or W&M or private schools, and not VT.</p>
<p>It’s not really “tricky.” Most public universities have limits on the out-of-state students they can admit, because they are supported by state taxpayer dollars and the philosophy is that they need to serve their own state students before they serve out-of-state students. A lot of them who do have the limits still love full pay students, but they are still limited in admitting them because of their public status.</p>
<p>So the answer is – being an out-of-state applicant hurts your chances at virtually every public university. So any any public university, your chances of admission will be more difficult if you are OOS. How much, however, is determined by the particular school. Some of them, however, can admit more OOS because, for instance, the school is not extremely popular with in-state students – like it’s not the flagship state school or doesn’t have a reputation as a really good public universtiy, like the example of Vermont – whereas other public universities are already inundated with OOS applicants and only the very top OOS students get in (like Michigan and Virginia).</p>
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<p>That’s not correct. It’s even harder for NoVA residents to get into UVa…it is EXTREMELY competitive in this area to get into any of the 3 “top” publics - UVA, W&M or VT. It is a common gripe amongst both students and parents - especially parents. We are blessed to have among the best public universities in the country, yet so many of the residents of No VA can’t get in - even really good students.</p>
<p>BTW…how do you insert a quote from a previous poster in your response? I looked at the FAQs and it says to click on an icon - which I don’t see on the msg. boards! But others can do it, so I know there’s a way! Thanks! :-)</p>
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<p>That surprises me–I don’t doubt you in any way, as I know nothing about it, but I had no idea it was so difficult for students from NoVa to get into VA publics. That seems borderline reverse discrimination, but I suppose they have to do it in order to maintain economic diversity because of the high volume of applicants to UVA and W&M from NoVa.</p>
<p>Rice is a school with a majority of students from Texas (or it was a majority until recently). Under its expansion plan, the university is trying to attract more out of state students and add a few hundred students to its population.</p>
<p>I would have understood it a whole lot earlier if someone had just said Virginia has regional quotas.</p>
<p>Rice and SMU both need to attract more OOS. It makes them look bad compared to Emory and Northwestern, even if Texas IS a whole separate country.</p>
<p>some states really do want to increase it’s OOS enrollment. As New York has a very low OOS enrollment (maybe 3 to 5 %), it does seem that their may be more latitude when assesing an OOS candidate for admission.
I have heard that the admission standards for OOS kids is a bit less stringent than for NYS kids as the SUNY’S want more OOS kids. So if you are an A- student, you might have a better shot of gaining admittance to SUNY Binghamton, Geneseo etc than a NY kid with similar stats.</p>