is UBuffalo and UConn OOS friendly?

[NavyDDS1990]

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[Likkriue]

Buf depends on if u r from Canada and uconn is not.

 

[Incis0r]

After CT residents, UConn gives special consideration to residents from the five other New England states (RI, MA, ME, NH, and VT) since UConn is the only public dental school in New England. From UConn's own website: "Typically 50-60% of each class is composed of Connecticut residents, with another 30% from other New England States and the remaining students from other states."

Buffalo has no special arrangement like this (they prefer NY residents), but it is more OOS friendly than Stony Brook. According to the ADEA book, Buffalo received 1,311 OOS applications, interviewed 142, and accepted 75.

 

[JLT223]

Buffalo is not OOS friendly unless you live across the border.

 

[Alkaline Lemons]

Buffalo is one of the most OOS friendly public universities in the Northeast right next to Rutgers. Accepts international students along with tons of OOS students.

Conn has preference to New Englanders, which buffs their OOS student numbers. If you look at students outside of New England, the numbers would suddenly much grimmer.

 

[personalstatementsbyeric]

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[Alkaline Lemons]

Buffalo takes 16 OOS residents out of 1045 that applied per the ADEA handbook - it doesn't take many OOS at all. Does UCONN take more?

Meant to say they take quite a respectable amount for public universities. I argue that looking at percentages would make things seem more optimistic.

2014 ADEA cites 24% of the incoming class for Buffalo were residents outside of New York. 11% of the 1311 OOS applicants that year got an interview who would eventually contribute to nearly a quarter of their incoming class.

Discounting students from New England, UConn enrolled 7 OOS students (about 14% of the incoming class) in 2016 from an applicant pool of about 1300.

 

[personalstatementsbyeric]

Meant to say they take quite a respectable amount for public universities. I argue that looking at percentages would make things seem more optimistic.

2014 ADEA cites 24% of the incoming class for Buffalo were residents outside of New York. 11% of the 1311 OOS applicants that year got an interview who would eventually contribute to nearly a quarter of their incoming class.

Discounting students from New England, UConn enrolled 7 OOS students (about 14% of the incoming class) in 2016 from an applicant pool of about 1300.

I see your point as a percentage, it's not too bad, but 7, or 16 out of a thousand or more is not OOS friendly imo. Only schools that are private or are public and have a rec. agreement with neighboring states are OOS friendly.

 

[1070752]

Buffalo is not OOS friendly unless you live across the border.

This basically sums it up. Buffalo seems to accept a lot of us Canadians.

 

[Likkriue]

People really need to look into where the OOS students come from before jumping into conclusions. Buffalo takes a good amount of Canadians and people around the border. But outside of that they are not OOS friendly. If you live in California for example, you don't have a great chance. That 24% becomes a very small number if you actually do some research into where they are coming from.

 

[JLT223]

People really need to look into where the OOS students come from before jumping into conclusions. Buffalo takes a good amount of Canadians and people around the border. But outside of that they are not OOS friendly. If you live in California for example, you don't have a great chance. That 24% becomes a very small number if you actually do some research into where they are coming from.

 

[Alkaline Lemons]

People really need to look into where the OOS students come from before jumping into conclusions.

I guess roads run both ways. Only 4 of the 90 students in 2014 state residency in Canada while 18 of the enrollees are from neither Canada nor New York. That sparkling 24% drops down to 20%, which I would disagree as a "very small number". Doing some research of where they're coming from, you'll see they took students from Arizona, California, Idaho, Mass, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Vermont.

In the grand scheme of things, the ever so obvious choice is to apply to respected schools that are also low in tuition to prevent financial stress. Those of you fortunate enough to have a state school to accept you have it easier. The others that live where a neighboring state school would need to take us stand at a disadvantage, fighting for fewer seats in a competitive environment. In another instance, if your state school does not take you, then the next step would be to apply to other state schools that are more open to OOS applicants and ultimately private schools. Buffalo and Rutgers are the few choices for public universities that you have if you wish to be in the Northeast. Are the chances astounding? Absolutely not. But they're the least of all the evils if you want to save yourself over 100k in debt compared to a private university. Tuition is at an all time high, and you're only shooting yourself in the foot if you apply to your only state school and pad it up with private universities.

 

[JLT223]

Maryland accepts nearly half OOS students. There are other options than just Buffalo and Rutgers.

 

[Likkriue]

Penn Vermont mass all border New York, take those folks off too.

Buf is simply not OOS friendly if you don't live in the northeast In States bordering NY. They take what? 1-2 from Cali Utah etc, that's the same as UNC acceptance rates OOS for those two states. how are you going to keep reiterating they take "TONs". And you better believe those few have outstanding applications.

Pittsburgh and Maryland have so many applications (almost tripled buffalo) because people do their research and realize those two state schools actually are OOS friendly.

 

[1070752]

4 of the 90 students in 2014 state residency in Canada

Key here is that's how many 'enrolled'.

 

[Alkaline Lemons]

Penn Vermont mass all border New York, take those folks off too.

Buf is simply not OOS friendly if you don't live in the northeast In States bordering NY. They take what? 1-2 from Cali Utah etc, that's the same as UNC acceptance rates OOS for those two states.

What point are you trying to make saying that they take 1-2 from Cali Utah? For the record, Pitt took 1 student from California in 2014 and 5 students from Cali and Utah enrolled into Buf that year.

UB Dean of Admissions Dr. David Brown stated in person that Buffalo takes no preference to neighboring states outside of New York. They have more enrollees in the bordering states and Canada simply because of proximity. We could play the game where we take off students from neighboring states all day, but this school in particular does not hold preference to anyone outside of New York. Schools in PA are in that murky area of being a "private yet state related institution", where in state tuition after first year OOS scales to nearly 340k for Pitt. As a school that toots their horn for being state related, their tuition rivals that of some cheaper private institutes who are much more willing to accept you.

I admit I completely left Maryland out of the equation who stands as a very viable option. Never looked into it. Probably should have applied there last year.

Edit: If you wanna be Canadian friendly, UDM blows other schools out of the water with 25 Canadians in a class of 144 for 2014.

 

[Likkriue]

More people would be applying to Ubuff if it was as OOS friendly as you keep saying it is.
The truth is, out of 300 people applying from Cali or Utah only 2-3 get in. That's about 1%. That is NOT OOS friendly.

Is it a good hail Mary shot? Sure why not, it's only 200 extra on applications which isn't that much considering you could save 100k.but honestly if you are being consider as an OOS from Cali or Utah you must have exceptional stats. And should be ablE To get into the Cali state schools.

I stand by that Buff is not OOS friendly.