Strategy for choosing out of state schools to apply to?

[halekulani]

[Sorry if this is redundant]

Anyways, I'm looking through the MSAR and was wondering what numbers I should focus on. I see the number of matriculants and number interviewed, but nothing about the number accepted. Is there a ratio of interview to matriculants I should be looking for? I should I just look at the number of OOS applied?

Any help is much appreciated.

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[gopher22]

When looking at statistics of how many get in, you run into the risk of treating yourself as a random number. If you see that 5 of 100 applicants got in, that doesn't mean you have a 5% chance of getting in. Rather, the probability of you getting into to an OOS schools is mostly predetermined by your scores, experiences, personality, etc.

To get into a public OOS school you probably have to be in the upper 10-20% of applicants at that school. On the other hand, its mostly fair game in private schools.

Good luck!