<p>Statistically, most kids go to colleges close to home. You start making the radii of the distance circles larger, and you get fewer kids going to school from any given center point. At my son’s school, there are clusters so thick on Naviance for the well known schools within about 4 hour radius from here, that you can’t even see the points. It’ gets better when you go further out.</p>
<p>So for a lot of schools that do want geographic diversity, that are up there in the rankings and are highly desired by those local to it, are admissions bonuses for those who want to go out of their geographic comfort zone.</p>