<p>quote] gbesq-well since my location says “Pennsylvania” that would be a no</p>
<p>but please observe: princeton admits by state
Number of Students in the Class of 2012 by Geographic Region
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<p>Stupefy, nice try, but wrong. Perhaps you can explain then why 35% of the class of 2012 at the University of Chicago (USNWR #8, you’ve heard of them, yes?) is from the Midwest (yes, those poor, dumb Midwesterners who take the ACT) and only 6% hail from New England (home of the elite boarding school students who take the vastly superior SAT)? Or perhaps you can explain why a whopping 36% of the class of 2012 at Duke University (USNWR #10, I assume you’ve heard of them too) is from the South (egads, another ACT dominated area)? Gee, guess that kinda puts a dent in your theory, huh? How inconvenient for you. Could it possibly be that the reason that Princeton draws a majority of its students from the Northeast is because it’s IN the Northeast? Same reason why a disproportionate percentage of students at Cornell University are FROM NY? Shocking, isn’t it? And by the way, as a former Pennsylvanian myself, you might want to think twice before including PA in that group of Northeast/Mid-Atlantic “elite” student producing states. Be mindful of James Carville’s description of Pennsylvania: “Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh on one end, Philadelphia on the other, and Alabama in between.” There are more rednecks in PA (many of them high school students) than in a lot of those “backward” states in the Midwest and the South. I too am awaiting your explanation of why the SAT-ACT concordance tables don’t show that the ACT is every bit as challenging a test as the SAT and that most students – including those from the “elite” states – do about the same on both tests.</p>