How to balance numbers of schools vs casting a larger net for best outcome (admission/aid)?

@BooBooBear That is a useful way to think about it and similar to what we did for OOS public applications. For what it’s worth, Illinois is about 75% instate, so only 25% roughly for OOS students. MN Twin Cities is about 35% OOS and that presumably includes WI students who have tuition reciprocity with MN, so the percentage of spots for non-MN, non WI students is even lower. Living in Indiana, we understood Bloomington was more like 60/40 but I can’t find a percentage on IU’s website and third party sites have it 65/35.