<p>The one thing that is unclear in the first post is that, yes it’s more competitive for people from NY/NJ, but there are so many more of them here than from other states besides Maryland.
Your post is worded so that it seems like the same number of people get in from Alabama and New York. Of the current OOS percent of 30, I’d say a good 20% are from these two states, and in a school of 30,000, that’s still over 7000 people. I’d say a similar percent of people get in from NY/NJ as do from any other state. the rest of hte states just have so much fewer applicants.
I’d be curious to see if anyone had state by state acceptance rates (not number accepted). I’m guessing they’d be not as different as you’re making them out to be.</p>