<p>Also, FWIW, NJ has over 300 public HS, now add in private and homeschools, you could have in reality 600 hs, if each hs had on avg 5 kids applying, they alone would hit the 3K number accepted from OOS, now add in NY and you can easily see how competitive it becomes. If you just said 3K applied and UMD took 1K from NJ, you are still looking at a 33% chance of acceptance. Again, theoretically it could go this way, but realistically it won’t. If they take 1K from both states, that means for NJ you have a 1 in 6 chance…if on avg 5 apply from each hs, only 1 will get accepted. You will see from Naviance that certain schools have a 50% acceptance rate, but that goes back to the school and your curriculum…i.e. Trenton schools are not as rigorous as Wycoff. Manalapan will have more than Lakewood. St Joes private will have higher acceptance rate than Edison.</p>
<p>Not trying to be Janie Rain Cloud, just trying to illustrate that for admission purposes why NJ/NY zip codes are competitive.</p>