Schools that save graduate seats for their own students

[hopefulNJSLP]

How can you tell if a school saves seats or prefers to give graduate acceptances to only those students that attended their school for their undergraduate degree or even if a school prefers to accept instate residents over out of state residents? I don't want to waste my money applying to schools that are only going to accept a few students that did not attend their school for their undergrad.

[lookwhoslp]

Not really sure except for word of mouth, or for those who have 5-year/ accelerated programs, like Duquesne. 

[kumapanda]

I feel like this is something you can only tell by talking to students who attended the programs themselves or those who applied to the programs.  Some schools would tell you the application statistics I believe if you email them or if you get accepted/rejected.  What schools are you looking at in particular? 

 

CSU - A lot of them favor their own undergrads, especially CSULB. 

Clarion - I've read a thread or two on here that they favor their own undergrads. 

SEMO - I emailed them and they told me nearly all of their students are in state.

 

Private schools in general don't seem to care?  That's my impression so far from the emails I've sent them.  I guess it makes sense since both in state and out state tend to pay roughly the same amount in terms of tuition.