Why does the University of Washington have a high acceptance rate?

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<p>My point is that I don’t believe that UWash has a cap on how many OOS students it can accept. Typically, that info is rather well known, and OOS students are warned.</p>

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<p>If you limit students you limit students and the rest is worthless semantics. </p>

<p>I called the University of Washington (Seattle) admissions office. Unfortunately, they could give me no number as to the percentage of OOS they accept. However, they could tell me that OOS represents 21 percent of students. Sure there is a difference between getting accepted at a school and actually deciding to go there. That said, it’s funny how they share how many students are from OOS, they share how many applications they get from OOS, yet struggle with sharing how many OOS applicants they accept. Funny huh?</p>

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<p>This article states “the percentage of out-of-state students in the freshman class … at the University of Washington the percentage has grown from 19 to 25 percent.” </p>

<p>[Colleges</a> Recruiting More Out-Of-State Students](<a href=“http://www.citytowninfo.com/career-and-education-news/articles/colleges-recruiting-more-out-of-state-students-09111601]Colleges”>Colleges Recruiting More Out-Of-State Students)</p>

<p>That doesn’t mean it is easier or harder for OOS students to get in, since we don’t know how many are admitted. However, since the OOS frosh are 25% and the OOS apps are 51%, then the OOS admit rate is greater than 25/51 or 49%.</p>

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<p>The Udub has one of the finest faculties and among the best facilities in the US. Easily in the US Top 25 by any measure. The fact that students from outside Washington are just discovering it is their problem. The instate kids love it and really don’t care what some snippy kid thinks.</p>

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<p>I live close to the UDub, and most of these guesses are about right. There are two major state schools in Washington, and the UDub is by far the better of the two. It has a beautiful campus, great faculty and libraries, does extensive amounts of research, and is right in the heart of Seattle. Basically, it’s big because the kids in the state love it, and don’t see the need to go anywhere else. The OOS numbers are low because most people don’t think about Washington when considering their educational needs. Surprising, I know. It gives the whole University a great community vibe, so there isn’t a lot of effort to broadcast to the rest of the nation. </p>

<p>Also, for the record, it’s not full of ‘sub-par’ students. Several of the most intelligent people I know, including a national debate champion, just got accepted and are thrilled.</p>

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<p>Certainly the University of Washington is one of the top public universities in the country. </p>

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<p>That not supported by fact. The University of Washington Regents released a report 10/15/2009 that stated that slightly more than half of all applications (51 percent) come from OOS candidates. That’s over 10,000 applications.</p>

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<p>Not so, you’re not dividing relevant numbers, your dividing apple and oranges ratios.</p>

<p>What we DON"T know are two things: acceptance rate for OOS versus in-state and any differences in yield in-state versus OOS (i.e. those actually registering upon acceptance). </p>

<p>What we DO know is:</p>

<p>Total Applications=21,268 </p>

<p>Offers=12,264</p>

<p>Overall Admit Rate= 57.7 percent</p>

<p>Registered= 5,338</p>

<p>Total number of OOS applications of total = 51 percent</p>

<p>Yield (Registered/Offers) = 43.5 percent</p>

<p>From this point, we only have assumptions. One reasonable assumption is that in-state yield is higher than OOS yield as family ties to the school and the attractive in-state tuition rate makes UWASH more appealing than to OOS candidates. Well, with an overall rate of 43.5 percent (pretty darn good to begin with) what do we place the in-state yield? </p>

<p>If we jack it up over 10 percent of the overall average say … 55 percent of in-state candidates enroll when accepted … that would mean:</p>

<p>In-state offers to be 7,278 (75 percent of student body (4003 divided by .55)</p>

<p>This leaves OOS offers to be 4,986. </p>

<p>That means that in-state offers are 70 percent of in-state applications. </p>

<p>That leaves OOS offers to be 46 percent of OOS applications. Keep in mind that OOS includes international students who currently make up 9 percent of the entering class. </p>

<p>Again, this is only as good as the assumption, but I think the methodology is sound.</p>