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<p>@fallenchemist said:

I doubt there is a private school in the USNWR top 100 (just as a convenient reference) that draws more from its state of residency than from the rest of the country. I would even be surprised if any of them draw more students from its own state plus all the states that border it than from the rest of the country.

Realize this is a slightly older post, but I found a couple in just the USNWR top 25 that come very close, and without looking at bordering states: For its latest class, USC (USNWR #23) drew 47% of its students from California (<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;), and it was 51% the year before (<a href=“http://about.usc.edu/files/2011/07/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf”>http://about.usc.edu/files/2011/07/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;). Likewise, 46% of new Freshman at Rice (USNWR #18) were from Texas (<a href=“Office of Admission | Rice University”>Office of Admission | Rice University).</p>

<p>Note that if you exclude international students (since you specify “than the rest of the country”), both schools have a majority of “in-state” students.</p>