re: Student Acceptance Rate (SEC schools)

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But I could've gotten into any school on the list

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Ok bud

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I always find this a little bit overblown. I went to a school with a ~80% acceptance rate. But I could've gotten into any school on the list. Maaaaybe not Vanderbilt, but I think I could've done it. I just went in state where I wanted to go and where I could realistically afford.

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And in some states the number of decent schools to population ratio is skewed. In Tennessee 4 year public institutions are decentralized to serve various population centers. 12 different institutions are part of the university of Tennessee system divided between East, Middle, and West TN with dozens of smaller feeder schools in each region. And that served the roughly 7 million residents of Tennessee. 29 tech schools, and 13 community colleges give TN 53 state accredited institutions of higher learning in the system. And that doesn’t include private or religious institutions.

Many states are not set up that way. In Georgia it’s set up differently, they have a dedicated medical school(MCG), a dedicated engineering school (Ga Tech), a dedicated forestry school (ABAC)and a handful of liberal arts schools with UGA being the biggest. Where TN has 50 something institutions to serve 7million, GA has less than 30 to serve 11 million.