how hard is OOS admission?

soadquake981
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:42:25 +0000

I work with the admissions office as part of the student government OOS student affairs agency, and we get this question a lot. What we generally tell people is that it’s not necessarily “difficult” to get in, but you definitely can’t slack off in high school or anything like that. I don’t know too much about UNC or UVA, so I can’t compare, but my personal opinion is that UT is on the same level as schools like USC, Carnegie Mellon, and UCLA. I don’t know the exact OOS acceptance rate, but I know that it has been decreasing in recent years, and I’d guess that it’s somewhere around 30% now.