TL;DR: MITES Summer is MIT’s six-week residential STEM program for rising seniors, offered at no cost to attend and built around rigorous coursework, a final symposium, and serious college admissions preparation. Admission is highly selective and weighs trajectory, context, and demonstrated passion for science and engineering more than a checklist of credentials. Families should treat … Continued
The University of Maryland out-of-state acceptance rate was 45.5% for fall 2025, slightly above the 43.7% rate for residents. The real gates: Early Action timing and Limited Enrollment Programs.
Virginia Tech admitted 58.7% of out-of-state applicants and 47.3% of Virginia residents for Fall 2025, the rare flagship where the residency math favors nonresidents. Verified numbers, 2026-27 costs, and strategy for nonresident families.
Oriel Admissions is opening entries for The Oriel 25, an annual editorial project recognizing 25 remarkable incoming students of the Class of 2030 across ten elite universities.
UC costs out-of-state families roughly $90,100 per year with effectively no need-based aid. When the full-pay math works, when it does not, and how to run the comparison.
UC Davis acceptance rate for fall 2026: 45.8 percent overall, 34.7 percent for California residents, 71.0 percent for domestic out-of-state applicants, and 66.6 percent for international applicants, up from 44.6 percent in fall 2025. Three-year trend, GPA context, and out-of-state strategy.
UC Santa Barbara acceptance rate for fall 2026: 44.0 percent overall, 34.6 percent for California residents, 63.9 percent for domestic out-of-state applicants, and 63.2 percent international, up from 38.3 percent in fall 2025. Three-year trend, the three-college structure, and strategy.
UC Irvine acceptance rate for fall 2026: 30.3 percent overall, 22.7 percent for California residents, 49.5 percent for domestic out-of-state applicants, and 45.5 percent for international applicants, up from 28.7 percent in fall 2025. Three-year trend, admit-by-major strategy, and cost data.
For fall 2026, most UC campuses admitted out-of-state applicants at higher rates than California residents. Campus-by-campus data and strategy for nonresident families.
UC San Diego acceptance rate for fall 2026: 27.2 percent overall, 24.1 percent for California residents, 37.2 percent for domestic out-of-state applicants, and 27.4 percent for international applicants, down from 28.4 percent in fall 2025. Three-year trend, GPA data, selective majors, and strategy.
Purdue admitted Indiana residents at 71% and out-of-state applicants at 39% for Fall 2025, one of the widest published residency gaps among flagships. Verified numbers, the frozen $28,794 nonresident tuition, and strategy for nonresident families.
Ohio State admitted 45.1% of in-state and 46.4% of out-of-state applicants for the Class of 2029, a rarity among public flagships. Verified data: 81,392 applications, 40,047 admits, and what the 2026-27 costs mean for nonresident families.
Stanford GSB does not publish an official MBA acceptance rate. Its Class of 2027 profile shows 434 enrolled of 7,259 applicants, a 6.0% enrollment ratio, the lowest in the M7, with a 738 average GMAT, a 3.76 average GPA, and 5.3 years of work experience.
The Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship is Duke premier merit award - and unlike its nomination-gated peers, every applicant to Duke is automatically considered, with no separate application to file. What the award covers, how the famous Oxford summer works, how finalists are chosen, and how the AB Duke fits beside the Robertson in a family merit strategy.
TL;DR: The overall UGA acceptance rate is approximately 33%, and the out-of-state rate is structurally tighter than that headline number because UGA states openly that each incoming class is designed to be approximately 80% in-state and 20% out-of-state. For the Class of 2029, a record 47,860 applications produced more than 15,800 admits, and in the … Continued
TL;DR: The UIUC out-of-state acceptance rate was 29.0% for fall 2025 (9,495 admitted of 32,702 applicants), against 49.3% for Illinois residents (14,509 of 29,419), 30.5% for international applicants (6,380 of 20,924) and a 36.6% overall rate (UIUC Common Data Set 2025-26), making Illinois one of the few flagships that publishes the residency split rather than … Continued