While colleges may hold OOS students to higher admission bars, the fact remains that OOS students are money makers for the colleges and colleges are money pits. It behooves said college to admit OOS students if for no other reason than money.
Several schools cleverly boosted their GPA admission statistics by offering free rides to stellar students from OOS. Unfortunately that meant that some local students would not be able to attend their preferred in state school, but hey, that low GPA is slowly rising.
State schools are still state schools, whether they are crowned "the best" or a "public ivy" in a magazine trying to sell copies or alumni trying to make themselves seem more important than they really are. Some people place the importance on ivy, while others realize it is still a public university.
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