Wiche

[hoodle]

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Hey,
So, I'm a bit confused by how WICHE works. I'm a resident of Washington state. Colorado State and Davis both mention possible slots available for WICHE:

The University of California accepts a small
number of uniquely qualified nonresidents and applicants from
WICHE states.

and

Each entering class consists of 75 CO residents and 59 WICHE
and non-sponsored students. Most offers are made in late January.
Only Colorado applicants are interviewed...


How does the WICHE thing work?? any why did they choose 59 non-colorado people - that's such an odd number! what's wrong with 60!

 

[lazyjayn]

Hmmm.. not sure. I'm pretty sure this is differant from contract seats, which wyoming has with CO. tho those students go down as WICHE, I think...

how it works there is the school actually sponsors the students. Say wyoming has 8 seats in Ft. Collins for next year- they pick 8 or 10 students that are "worthy" from the vet aplicants, and they go into the contract/ wiche group. anyone else would go into general out of state. Or at least that's how they explaned it when I asked.

mainly, if your from one of those big empty states (resident, and for vet school, maybe school too...) you get in state (usually- not at davis) or in state +50% for tuition. Most of them pick the students separately from the other out of state students. it's just a way to give the larger/ lower pop. state students a shot at actually getting in.

Which works out pretty well, 'cause most of the big empty states don't have a vet school, but have tons of animals.

re: CO's class numbers- 60 out of state would mean an uneven class- and 1 group of three for every lab.

anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I usually am.

j.