<p>^^also, middsmith, it’s really important to finely parse the numbers to compare apples to apples. (Of course, the schools refuse to release the data so we can!)</p>
<p>For example, that 91% acceptance rate that you reference is comprised of both low income and high income kids – more of the latter, I’m sure. But, the OOS applicants are almost all high income, full pay kids (since the UCs have poor finaid). However, UC also gives big bonus points for low income applicants. Thus, that 91% instate acceptance rate could be comprised of 99.9% of low income applicants with those stats, but only ~80% of wealthy applicants (just a guess to make a point). Thus, the differential between instate and OOS is not that great as it first appears – unlike UVa and UNC where the differential is huge. And, we need to be cognizant that UVa treats OOS legacies as instaters for admission purposes, but reports them (correctly) as OOS’ers. Thus, unhooked OOS’ers are even worse off when applying to Charlottesville!</p>