WUE and limited majors

Parents Forum
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<p>Why does the WUE limit the majors that qualify?</p>

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<p>The schools may have excess capacity in some majors but not others.</p>

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<p>Because the schools don’t want to sell seats at the out-of-state discounted price that they could sell at the full OOS price.</p>

<p>If a school can fill its available OOS seats in [Popular Major] at the full OOS price, they wouldn’t want to sell those seats at the OOS discount price.</p>

<p>Very similar to how airlines limit the overall number of available frequent flyer mile seats. And also limit the FF seats to less popular flights.</p>

<p>Same reason why some western schools that more easily fill OOS seats (e.g. UCLA, University of Colorado and University of Washington) don’t particpiate in WUE at all, while the Cal State schools, Colorado State and Washington State do. </p>

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<p>I’ve also noticed that 14 yrs ago, when oldest was first looking, several schools she was considering did not restrict majors through WICHE, or stated that it was applicable to all but a few majors. ( like nursing, engineering, computer science). Those majors are generally competitive for admission no matter where you apply.</p>

<p>Youngest attended Western Washington University, which does not restrict its majors with WUE, although it is academically competitive.
It’s not available for transfers, although it is more of a scholarship than charging 150% of instate tuition.
<a href=“http://wue.wiche.edu/profile.jsp?id=127”>http://wue.wiche.edu/profile.jsp?id=127&lt;/a&gt;
It’s really a great school, and a beautiful area.</p>

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<p>I thought that WUE/WICHE only offered availability when the home state does not offer the major. </p>

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<p>Some regional tuition discount programs (e.g. the New England one) tend to do that. WUE discounting appears to be based on whether the school has excess capacity on its campus and each major.</p>