31,820 UCF
30,122 Tulane
28,512 South Florida
27,479 UConn
18,813 Temple
17,407 Houston
16,069 Cincinnati
15,320 East Carolina
12,080 SMU
7,304 Tulsa
6,107 Memphis

*Admission stats are based on first-time, degree-seeking freshmen from
Fall 2013.

The real question is what was the acceptance rate?

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With an acceptance rate of less than 50%, the University of Central Florida has become increasingly selective in recent years. Most accepted students have above average test scores and grades. In the graph above, the blue and green dots represent the students who got in. You can see that most successful applicants had "B" or higher averages, SAT scores of about 1650 or higher, and ACT composite scores of 22 or higher. The higher those numbers, the better your chance of an acceptance letter.

(05-31-2014 05:08 PM)invisiblehand Wrote:  The real question is what was the acceptance rate?

While acceptance rate is worth about 1% on the USNWR ranking scale, you can't compare acceptance rates between private and public schools with guaranteed admissions.

Theoretically, a private school could raise entrance requirements forever assuming it was able to encourage more and more qualified applicants to apply.

Public schools can't do that.

At public schools with guaranteed admissions (for Top 10%, or Top Quarter and 1XXX on the SAT), there is a limit to how high they can raise the guaranteed admissions bar due to the goal of educating the public.

In Texas anyway, it's rare to see public schools with acceptance rates below 50%. Texas A&M is a wonderful school, and its acceptance rate is over 60%.

UH has recently hovered at 57-62%.

we only have 1200 freshman students but the #'s above suggest a 10% acceptance rate while according to the SMU website for 2014 53.8% were accepted

(05-31-2014 05:38 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  we only have 1200 freshman students but the #'s above suggest a 10% acceptance rate while according to the SMU website for 2014 53.8% were accepted

Well there is a big difference between those accepted and those that enrolled. Many that are accepted are also accepted elsewhere.

Ours is around 25%

(05-31-2014 05:10 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

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With an acceptance rate of less than 50%, the University of Central Florida has become increasingly selective in recent years. Most accepted students have above average test scores and grades. In the graph above, the blue and green dots represent the students who got in. You can see that most successful applicants had "B" or higher averages, SAT scores of about 1650 or higher, and ACT composite scores of 22 or higher. The higher those numbers, the better your chance of an acceptance letter.

As someone who does visual analytics for a living, that's a pretty tough graph to read.

The main thing I got from this graph was curiosity about why someone with a 3.8 GPA and 2200 SAT got denied? Criminal record? Couldn't fill out the application?

That and how does someone get a 4.0 GPA and finish in the bottom quartile on the SAT?

Also how does the worst SAT score get wait listed when a ton of people with better SATs and GPAs got denied?

(05-31-2014 05:55 PM)NTXCoog Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 05:10 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

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With an acceptance rate of less than 50%, the University of Central Florida has become increasingly selective in recent years. Most accepted students have above average test scores and grades. In the graph above, the blue and green dots represent the students who got in. You can see that most successful applicants had "B" or higher averages, SAT scores of about 1650 or higher, and ACT composite scores of 22 or higher. The higher those numbers, the better your chance of an acceptance letter.

As someone who does visual analytics for a living, that's a pretty tough graph to read.

The main thing I got from this graph was curiosity about why someone with a 3.8 GPA and 2200 SAT got denied? Criminal record? Couldn't fill out the application?

That and how does someone get a 4.0 GPA and finish in the bottom quartile on the SAT?

Also how does the worst SAT score get wait listed when a ton of people with better SATs and GPAs got denied?

We need a statistician to answer this, pronto!

UCF
31,820 Total Applicants
15,572 Admitted (48.9% acceptance rate)
6,068 Enrolled (38.9% enrollment rate)
Rating: Very Selective

Tulane
30,122 Total Applicants
7,961 Admitted (26.4% acceptance rate)
1,609 Enrolled (20.2% enrollment rate)
Rating: Very Selective

South Florida
28,512 Total Applicants
12,900 Admitted (45.2% acceptance rate)
3,736 Enrolled (28.9% enrollment rate)
Rating: Very Selective

UConn
27,479 Total Applicants
14,745 Admitted (53.6% acceptance rate)
3,755 Enrolled (25.4% enrollment rate)
Rating: Somewhat Selective

Temple
18,813 Total Applicants
12,016 Admitted (63.8% acceptance rate)
4,390 Enrolled (36.5% enrollment rate)
Rating: Somewhat Selective

Houston
17,407 Total Applicants
10,167 Admitted (58.4% acceptance rate)
3,434 Enrolled (33.7% enrollment rate)
Rating: Somewhat Selective

Cincinnati
16,069 Total Applicants
11,680 Admitted (72.6% acceptance rate)
4,449 Enrolled (38.0% enrollment rate)
Rating: Somewhat Selective

East Carolina
15,320 Total Applicants
11,238 Admitted (73.3% acceptance rate)
4,521 Enrolled (40.2% enrollment rate)
Rating: Somewhat Selective

SMU
12,080 Total Applicants
6,125 Admitted (50.7% acceptance rate)
1,431 Enrolled (23.3% enrollment rate)
Rating: Somewhat Selective

Tulsa
7,304 Total Applicants
2,965 Admitted (40.5% acceptance rate)
856 Enrolled (28.8% enrollment rate)
Rating: Very Selective

Memphis
6,107 Total Applicants
4,088 Admitted (66.9% acceptance rate)
2,134 Enrolled (52.2% enrollment rate)
Rating: Somewhat Selective

I could be wrong, but for Temple, I'm pretty sure that admitted number isn't only first time freshmen.

That's what Temple reported for first-time, degree-seeking, incoming freshmen.

any reason why Tulsa doesn't want to expand the size of the school?

(05-31-2014 07:45 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  any reason why Tulsa doesn't want to expand the size of the school?

I wish they would. Would love to get the athletic attendance up across the board.

(05-31-2014 07:45 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  any reason why Tulsa doesn't want to expand the size of the school?

I wondered that myself if there was any plans to expand the student enrollment. Very small school.

ah the offseason

(05-31-2014 05:50 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 05:38 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  we only have 1200 freshman students but the #'s above suggest a 10% acceptance rate while according to the SMU website for 2014 53.8% were accepted

Well there is a big difference between those accepted and those that enrolled. Many that are accepted are also accepted elsewhere.

(S)afety school (M)ethodist (U)niversity

(05-31-2014 08:24 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 05:50 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 05:38 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  we only have 1200 freshman students but the #'s above suggest a 10% acceptance rate while according to the SMU website for 2014 53.8% were accepted

Well there is a big difference between those accepted and those that enrolled. Many that are accepted are also accepted elsewhere.

(S)afety school (M)ethodist (U)niversity

Random article recently called us Methodist School of Dallas

(05-31-2014 05:07 PM)St. H. Gink Wrote:  31,820 UCF
30,122 Tulane
28,512 South Florida
27,479 UConn
18,813 Temple
17,407 Houston
16,069 Cincinnati
15,320 East Carolina
12,080 SMU
7,304 Tulsa
6,107 Memphis

*Admission stats are based on first-time, degree-seeking freshmen from
Fall 2013.

What is the source of this information?

Cincinnati lists their acceptance rate around 67%, here it's listed as 72%.

(05-31-2014 07:53 PM)PT_american Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 07:45 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  any reason why Tulsa doesn't want to expand the size of the school?

I wondered that myself if there was any plans to expand the student enrollment. Very small school.

The problem is dormitory space... we just don't have enough living space. They're pretty much already over capacity and building a new dorm this summer / fall...

Interestingly enough, back in the oil boom years of the 70's TU was much more of a community school and attendance was larger due to in town commuters... the hefty price increase stomped that out pretty quickly. Tuition has been going up about 1.5k per year which is ridiculous.