Public Universities With Lowest Out-of-State Acceptance Rates

[@Sajidov3]

What's interesting here is that this is largely driven by percentage of the class that is out of state. Somewhat paradoxically, a higher percentage of OOS students likely makes the class itself stronger, even if the OOS acceptance rate goes up. Or, to put it another way, an incoming class for UVA is generally stronger than one at UNC owing to it's higher proportion of OOS students, even though UNC appears to be more selective for OOS students.

[@ShyamKumar-zb2mw]

Georgia Tech's Class of 2028's out-of-state admit rate has come down to 9.4% - as per the stats published in their admissions blog - FYI....

[@leealysia9965]

Very worrying.

[@villaorleans4784]

What about UCLA? ...arguably more competitive than Berkeley...in state or out

[@HP-ov7ol]

I guess we'll scratch GT from our list. Its a good school, but not MIT good. For out of state applicants is almost as hard to get into.

[@ShyamKumar-zb2mw]

True. My understanding is that for OOStaters - GT is sub-10% (9.4%) acceptance rate for their class of 2028. No school school will ever match MIT reputation - for sure. However, for Engineering - MIT was ranked #1 and GT #3 - right along with UC Berkeley - and just above UMich-AA per US News rankings of Engineering schools last year (Stanford was #2, btw) - FWIW. FYI....