elizabethh

I saw that ASU as a 94% acceptance in USNews ranking. Does that sound correct??

AtomicCafe

Wrong school section, but yes, that's pretty close to the acceptance rate.

arizonagirl007

yes, it sounds correct. their application is ridiculous.

Another_Adam

Yeah, I've never met someone who didn't get into ASU (within reason, of course).

elizabethh

whoops, sorry for posting on the wrong school - is U of A pretty much the same?

cjones120

Not as high of a percentage. Its around 80%. You actually have to write an essay for U of A unlike ASU.

Coolbrezze

May be right, I'll most likely be applying to one of the universities ( ASU, UA) if not UC-Boulder.... sorta like safety reasons ( though they are all respected universities).

liore123

yea ua is 80% but they said because of budget cuts they will probably lower this acceptance rate. however, that probably wont make a significant difference

UAKid

Another interesting statistic: only half of the freshman that walk in walk out with a degree in hand. It ain't a walk in the park (unless you're a liberal arts major

mmmcdowe

To be fair, ASU has a mandate to accept basically every and any arizona student who demonstrates that they want to go to college.

InvolvedmomFL

Does Arizona have a generous scholarship program like Georgia and Florida?

In Florida the state universities went from 90% acceptance rates in the early 80's to UF being highly selective due to students staying within the state to take advantage of the Bright Futures scholarships.

Just curious if Arizona has something similar.

UAKid

They have more in-state scholarships than out of state, but even my out of state was a generous $10000 per year (which was the maximum at the time). Now, the max is $15000. There's also department scholarships and some honors scholarships as well but the department ones are meant more for upper classmen. I believe the total tuition cost OOS is somewhere around $17000 now, so the Tier I scholarship would cover a huge chunk of it.

Even the less than stellar out of state kids still usually can get a minimum of $2000 per year. What's really nice, however, is that you only need to maintain a 3.0 GPA to keep the scholarships. Texas, on the other hand, offered me like $20000 per year but required a 3.8.

My other scholarship experience was UCSD offering me $2000 a year, which is pretty crappy since the school charges $30000 for OOS. So relative to my experience, I thought they weren't being stingy but I came in with high SAT scores and GPA.

cjones120

I had 3.5 GPA with honors courses and 1240 SAT (reading + math) and I didn't get a scholarship. You will get college paid for however if your family makes under $50k.

UAKid

That's unfortunate cjones. I think it's a result now of increased enrollment and decreased budget both caused by the recession. I'll be interested in hearing freshman talking around campus about their aid.