I was looking up university of Kentucky on us news now and they have a 91% acceptance rate and princeton review says they have a 91% percent acceptance rate on their website. Is university of Kentucky getting easier to get into now? Here’s the website to prove it.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-kentucky-1989
Anyone???
I don’t know the trend, but UK has never been highly selective.
Not being highly selective does not mean it’s a cakewalk. My daughter had a double major in chem and bio. She recently switched the chem to neuroscience (she wants to be a neurologist). It kept her hoppin’!
No question STEM, including a pre-med track, is challenging anywhere.
Our daughter went to a rigorous college prep HS and she thought her first semester at UK was “too easy”. Second semester was harder, but she still did well.
She is expecting the heat to be turned up this coming year as she was accepted into pre-health major/program and this is where the rubber hits the road.
Other big public flagships, such as U of Iowa, have high acceptance rates. It’s not indicative of the quality of education or the amount of good opportunities at a school.
If you look at common data set for 2015/16, fewer kids applied and more were accepted than previous year. So acceptance rates increased. But the number of kids who enrolled was pretty much the same. And the stats of the incoming classes were pretty much the same. A few were a little higher, a few lower and others unchanged. If it were truly getting easier to gain admission, I would expect the stats of incoming classes to get weaker (especially at the 25% cutoff). But that didn’t happen (at least from what I see looking quickly).
The honors college is not easy to get in, over 4,000 applicants for 400 ish spots…