Student Acceptance Rate (SEC schools)

FYI........current student acceptance rate for......

-- University of Texas-Austin = 31.8%
-- University of Oklahoma = 80.4%
-- University of Southern California = 12%

Others picked at random around the country....

Stanford = 4%
UCLA = 8%
California-Berkeley = 17%
Notre Dame = 18%
Ohio State = 57%
Michigan = 23%
Clemson = 49%
Florida State = 37%
UNC = 24%
Duke = 8%
Georgia Tech = 23%

I am surprised A&M's is that high. I suppose they have a better pool of applicants and don't have to reject as many.

Bama is giving scholarships to second-tier Louisiana kids.

I’m in the 90% club bitches

Meh, you can't put much stock in that. There are half a dozen ways to game those rates that universities will use to raise their scores for the various ratings rags/websites. Every year or two, the ratings groups revise how they measure it to take into account the latest gaming methods the U's have come up with.

For example, for several years back in the 00's, bama was giving everyone who applied an iTunes giftcard for $5, which is about what it cost to apply at the time. Their acceptance went to low double and even single digits for a year or two before the ratings orgs caught on.

Another things schools will do (UT Austin and Bama have both done it that I know of, I believe Aggie does as well) is that they will admit borderline students (low ACT/SAT or grades) in the summer as "provisional students" so that they don't count against their incoming Fall freshman class stats. The provisionals have to make a 3.0 to stay in school. I used to tutor them at UTexas.

I don't understand why UK's is that high. It could be a post-COVID acceptance rate hike, which a lot of public schools have been doing. The requirements to get in to some colleges are virtually nothing now.

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By law, Texas must admit all in-state applicants who were ranked within the top 6% of their graduating class. Outside of those auto-admits, the acceptance rate is about 10%.

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As if Texas is the only state that has this kind of law.

Based on this criteria, just about all these other school's acceptance rates would be lower.

Texas is NOT on par academically with USC, Duke, UCLA, etc.

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I am surprised A&M's is that high. I suppose they have a better pool of applicants and don't have to reject as many

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It’s because A&M’s “prestige” is a lie perpetuated by their weird obsessive cult alumni just like their “money”. They’re a very average academic school in the big scheme of things just like their entire wealth myth is based on their, again, cult alumni, desperately donating a disproportionate amount of their wealth to A&M’s endowment in an attempt to keep up with Texas

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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 don't understand why UK's is that high. It could be a post-COVID acceptance rate hike

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I believe Arkansas removed testing requirements during Covid and hasn't re-instated them. A way to improve "equity".

They still have minimum GPA requirements, though.