Kentucky has an acceptance rate of 94%

Talk about taking what ever you can get...

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MSU: 57%
Alabama: 59%

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These are the most shocking

A lot of schools intentionally recruit kids they have no intention of accepting just so they can turn them down. It lowers their acceptance rate and makes them look more exclusive. Several Ivies got into a bit of scandal for doing this years ago.

94 percent is ridiculously high but a lot of state universities have an auto acceptance for in-state students *if* they score x and/or have a GPA of x. I would definitely say it looks like it's easier to get into UK than other places but at the same time acceptance rates are a poor measure to use when looking at an institution. Really, most of the measures sold to the general public by the various guides are trash when it come to determining actual academic value but it sells magazines and guides and gives admissions offices something to crow about.

Prospective students and their parents need to be looking at individual programs not university rankings. They also need to be looking at individual professors and dept. connections to outside programs and institutions the student may want to pursue while attending and after attending but those things are harder to quantify.

There's nothing wrong with open admissions, as long as your graduation rate isn't high as well.

If your goal is a high graduation rate, you will have a high graduation rate. There is nothing inherently good about high graduation rates.

A lot of state schools used to have open admissions. The thought was, it's easy to get in, but the hard part is actually staying in.

Acceptance rates are a dumb metric that can be brought down artificially. The states flagship university should educate the people of the state. A good way to view a university is by what their graduated have done to help society, the school’s research, what they have done to preserve the state’s history and culture... everything but an acceptance rate

Fascinating.

Only good people apply

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Kentucky has an acceptance rate of 94%

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this is an amazingly misleading stat

acceptance rates have a lot to do with the applicants and the caliber of applicants

example; Auburn has surpassed Alabama (albeit just slightly) insofar as academic reputation (I.E. - Auburn is an academically better and more demanding school); yet the acceptance rates of the two schools does not reflect this

The only “good” schools on the sec are Florida, Georgia, Vanderbilt, and maybe a&m