<p>Hey, just curious... Is anyone on here from a really rural area?</p>
<p>I live in a city called Oroville, an hour north of Sacramento in the heart of NorCal. Pretty much everyone from my high school goes to community college or Chico State. I was one of only two people at my highschool that got into UCLA.</p>
<p>Anyone else have an equally strange story?</p>
<p>now that you haven't received any replies for nearly 24 hours... I'm not really from a RURAL area, you can get to anywhere good in over 40 minutes but under 2 hours depending...but I am in THE nowhere everyone else has to cross to get somewhere good.(does that make THEM in the middle of nowhere?)</p>
<p>i met someone who was from a rural area like yours up in norcal, and her description of her hometown and high school was exactly like yours, and if i remember correctly, she was one of two people that got into ucla and most people either go cal state, community college, workforce, etc.</p>
<p>I live in Alabama (which is pretty rural compared to California) 1 hour away from birmingham, 1.5 hours away from Atlanta. City of 15,000. Middle of nowhere. Of course, nobody from my school goes to community colleges, though.</p>
<p>I live in a rural south Texas town, it has 700 people! The school I go to is 30 miles from my house, and as others posted, most go to comm. college or University of Houston, Texas or Texas A&M...otherwise the workforce...To go out of state from here is quite a jump, only 2 or 3 a year!</p>
<p>Wow, my senior class is bigger than your whole town...</p>
<p>My senior class has 25 people including me.</p>
<p>I don't think any of my classes are that small...stupid overcrowded CA public schools....</p>
<p>wow your senior class has 25 students? </p>
<p>x 1000</p>
<p>ucla has 25,000 undergrad students. hehe.</p>
<p>My senior class has 300 people... so fairly large considering I'm from a rural area.</p>
<p>Alabama! Wow!</p>
<p>Yeah, there are perks for going to such a small school. Obviously, teachers know you and you get to participate in almost any activity you want and gain that much coveted leadership position. However, some disadvantages could kill one's chances of getting into a top private school. For example, my school doesn't rank. So how are you going to convey where you stand in a class? Top 10% is the top 2 students! Also, there's not much high-level course selections which could give an upper hand to applcants (school offers 6 AP's). To stand out, one doesn't need to be super smart, just super careful.</p>
<p>It's funny since a lot of people consider my area (Santa Clarita) to be a tiny area... 20-30 years ago this was a decently samll area, but it's getting hard to call a city with almost 175,000 people small.</p>
<p>I go to a school that's in a rural area</p>