<p>There are a large number of OOS students who are recruited athletes. Since that pool is smaller that the instate pool, lower SATs have a greater mathematical impact on the average score.</p>
<p>As said in another post yesterday morning where I offered this link to the stats as well, for the average, non recruited athlete OOS applicant, the bar is still pretty high.</p>
<p>Throw out the bottom 25 % numbers and look to the upper end of the top 75% if you want to get a real estimation of where the bar will be especially for a female applicant since the student body ratio is so heavily skewed (58.9/41.1 female/male) and the competition for those spots among women is even more intense.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that the bar is significantly lower for male OOS students it’s just that there are far more female applicants than male applicants in general right now so a borderline male applicant may get the nod over a similarly profiled female applicant is some cases.</p>