<p>@fallenchemist said:
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</a>), 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</a>). 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>
<p>@DavidSonDaughter - Ah, you are right. I should have taken into account the privates that are located in mega states, especially California. Of course I could go into my rant about how California needs to be broken up into three states, but that wouldn’t make you less right. Nice catch.</p>
<p>Still, I suspect that the percentage from their home state will continue to decrease with time, especially in the case of USC, unless other world events cause energy prices, and thus travel costs, to skyrocket. But if things that affect this sort of phenomenon stay relatively stable, I think that USC will continue to draw more interest from students in the eastern 2/3 of the country. I would love to see a state by state breakdown of both their application pool and their acceptance pool. The latter would be especially interesting to see if the students that turned USC down for other schools were disproportionally from outside California and by how much compared to the final class demographics.</p>
<p>@fallenchemist said:
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<p>Perhaps. There has been a gradual decrease of in-state matriculates over time (see <a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Interactive-Freshman-Class/129547/#id=12396”>http://chronicle.com/article/Interactive-Freshman-Class/129547/#id=12396</a>). That site doesn’t include international students; for comparison, the equivalent proportion of in-state for the most recent class of 2013 is 47/(47+37)=56.0%. So the trend has continued a bit.</p>
<p>As is indicated in the profile (<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf</a>), the relative proportion of in-state students applying to USC (49/(49+39)=55.7%), and those admitted (45/(45+39)=53.6%) to USC, doesn’t differ much from the relative proportion enrolled mentioned above (56.0%). The admit rate is slightly lower for in-state students, but the yield is slightly better.</p>
<p>If you play the “movie” on the linked chronicle.com page, you can see how the state representation varies over time. There is normal variation, but beyond California, the same states (TX, IL, NY, etc.) are generally the source of most students. </p>
<p>@DavidSonDaughter - I will try to look at those links later. But certainly the fact that most of the OOS students come from TX, IL, NY is no surprise. Perhaps FL is well represented also. The same is true at Tulane, with CA being very well represented (big increase from CA over the last decade) and NJ is big as well. Those 5 or 6 states are among the most populous, after all. In fact a year or two ago Louisiana was not the most represented state at Tulane for the first time, but it hasn’t been remotely close to being a majority for decades.</p>