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*2021 admit rate; Princeton declined to release its 2022 rate to “tamp down the anxiety of applicants”
* 2021 acceptance rate; Penn declined to release its 2022 acceptance rate.
**The chance of any one applicant being accepted to USC plummeted from 69% in 1980 to less than 17% in 2016.
Many public flagship state universities are especially competitive for out-of-state students. The chart below illustrates the selectivity of some of the nation’s top public flagship institutions:
Overall 2022 Admit Rate | In-State | Out-of-State | |
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University of Texas-Austin | 28.7% | 100% automatic admits ~10% non-auto admits | ~8% |
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | 16.8% | 43.1% | 8.2% |
University of Virginia | 19% | 28% | 15% |
UCLA | 8.5% | 9.1% | 7.5% |