School with the highest acceptance/matriculation rate

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This isn't a serious thread, but I was just looking through the MSAR and I was wondering which school has the highest acceptance rate from applicant to acceptance (or matriculation since that is easier to obtain). Does anyone know? UW is broken down by WWAMI state and Wyoming residents are at 37%, but then I saw that UNMC is 39% matriculation on the MSAR (282 apply and 111 matriculate). Any states higher than that?

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Alright, I did a quick and dirty column to figure this out for IS to state public schools. Here is the top 10.

IS applicant to state school matriculant percentages:
  1. Arkansas - 47%
  2. Nebraska - 39%
  3. Oklahoma - 39%
  4. Indiana - 38%
  5. Mississippi - 37%
  6. Washington (Wyoming) - 37%
  7. South Dakota - 36%
  8. Kansas - 34%
  9. Marshall-Edwards - 33%
  10. West Virginia - 33%
 
Alright, I did a quick and dirty column to figure this out for IS to state public schools. Here is the top 10.

IS applicant to state school matriculant percentages:
  1. Arkansas - 47%
  2. Nebraska - 39%
  3. Oklahoma - 39%
  4. Indiana - 38%
  5. Mississippi - 37%
  6. Washington (Wyoming) - 37%
  7. South Dakota - 36%
  8. Kansas - 34%
  9. Marshall-Edwards - 33%
  10. West Virginia - 33%
That is so odd to me with WWAMI, Washington state ends up only being like...25%?
 
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it's rough... their step 2 pass rate was 57%
I guess that's bound to happen when you only have a few hundred students to pick from to begin with (but still not a great reflection on the school...)
 
yeah I just updated it to last cycle's data bc I had 2 cycles ago data before that!
Dang UVA went from about 70% OOS post-II A to 43. I'm interviewing there tomorrow, just added a little stress :laugh:
 
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Alright, I did a quick and dirty column to figure this out for IS to state public schools. Here is the top 10.

IS applicant to state school matriculant percentages:
  1. Arkansas - 47%
  2. Nebraska - 39%
  3. Oklahoma - 39%
  4. Indiana - 38%
  5. Mississippi - 37%
  6. Washington (Wyoming) - 37%
  7. South Dakota - 36%
  8. Kansas - 34%
  9. Marshall-Edwards - 33%
  10. West Virginia - 33%

Updated list with new info from University of Washington

  1. Arkansas - 47%
  2. Wyoming (Washington) - 40%
  3. Nebraska - 39%
  4. Oklahoma - 39%
  5. Alaska (Washington) - 38%
  6. Indiana - 38%
  7. Mississippi - 37%
  8. South Dakota - 36%
  9. Kansas - 34%
  10. Marshall-Edwards - 33%
 
Updated list with new info from University of Washington

  1. Arkansas - 47%
  2. Wyoming (Washington) - 40%
  3. Nebraska - 39%
  4. Oklahoma - 39%
  5. Alaska (Washington) - 38%
  6. Indiana - 38%
  7. Mississippi - 37%
  8. South Dakota - 36%
  9. Kansas - 34%
  10. Marshall-Edwards - 33%
UW is probably the only school with a higher OOS acceptance rate (for certain states) than IS lol Gotta love being a Washingtonian....
 
I was gonna say some of this data isn't recent. UCLA is interviewing 600 this year instead of 960, same as last year for them.

All the same, thanks for compiling!
It’s all updated data from USNWR. If they had more recently updated info, I’d include it 🙁
 
This isn't a serious thread, but I was just looking through the MSAR and I was wondering which school has the highest acceptance rate from applicant to acceptance (or matriculation since that is easier to obtain). Does anyone know? UW is broken down by WWAMI state and Wyoming residents are at 37%, but then I saw that UNMC is 39% matriculation on the MSAR (282 apply and 111 matriculate). Any states higher than that?
Offhand, I's say the really lucky state schools, like U MS, U KS, U IA, U NM, etc.
 
Does anyone know how waitlisted students factor into these numbers? Or, rather, is the "accepted" category inclusive of the waitlisted people who were later accepted?
 
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