<p>^^Agree. My daughter also prefer big, urban, California schools. She does not like LACs or any school that is just a little bigger than her high school. NYU is appealing but it's colder, however, she knows how to deal with California dry heat. </p>
<p>OT: what is so big deal about Harvard Square? I like Beacon Hill/Back Bay and Faneuil Hall better.</p>
<p>Boy has this thread gotten off track! The original poster was making a point about whether coming from a particular state gives you an advantage or disadvantage when applying to college. This has nothing to do with comparing colleges and universities in the different states. The idea is that states with large, wealthy, urban, educated populations are overrepresented in most private colleges and sparsely populated, rural states are underrepresented. Students who excel from the latter environment are almost like URMs.</p>
<p>^^^ OP: "Best and Worst States to Be From in College Admissions"</p>
<p>The question was which is the best state to be from during college Admisisons and that is what being answered.</p>
<p>California is the best state to be from during college admissions because of its Best in Class University of California system at a price that is less than a catholic high school education. This provide a great fall back to any good student.</p>
<p>New York accounts for more students than Mass. (and has more colleges, too, BTW, including two Ivies.) NYC and Long Island are the worst places to be from regarding acceptances at elite schools, especially girls. (Situation entirely different if it's a boy who plays Lacrosse, big on L.I.) This is compounded if girl wants to be a Humanities major. When she applied early to top school my D was told she would have bewn accepted if she was from any placer other than L.I. Happy ending; she got in RD, but only after considerable investment in applying to other schools and emotional wear ans tear. (Not complaining: All's well that ends well!)</p>
<p>However, I am grateful to Long Island school that set the bar quite high for achievement and provided many, many opportunities.</p>
<p>As a side note, the preponderance of private colleges and universities has perhaps curtailed the investment in NY publics so we don't have an elite flagship state school.</p>
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"Pepperdine, USC, BC, and Boston University aren't really comparable... Pepperdine especially."</p>
<p>How rude, lol! Pepperdine is ranked higher than BU on USNews .. I know that doesn't mean much, but still..
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<p>How was that rude? I think that most people on this board recognize that Pepperdine isn't as good as those other schools listed. I honestly don't see how you can say that Pepperdine is just as good as Boston College or USC. It is most definitely not as good as Stanford or Caltech. Explain again how that was rude?</p>
<p>I've gotta say, in terms of diversity, NJ is probably the worst state to be from. Most of it is jam-packed with middle-class NYC/Philadelphia commuters. I blame the fact that I have absolutely nothing unique in my upbringing on NJ. </p>
<p>Not to mention, though the state is small, it's the most densely populated state, so we have tons of people applying.</p>
<p>As for best state... I'd have to say Alaska. How's that for diversity?</p>
<p>Everyone's forgetting Iowa...</p>
<p>And I can see why.</p>
<p>aquamarinee,</p>
<p>pepperdine is very comparable to BU .. just because it isn't as popular on these boards doesn't mean that pepperdine is a worse school.</p>
<p>"The question was which is the best state to be from during college Admisisons and that is what being answered.</p>
<h2>California is the best state to be from during college admissions because of its Best in Class University of California system at a price that is less than a catholic high school education. This provide a great fall back to any good student."</h2>
<p>No, that was not the question from the OP, nor is this ^^ the answer.</p>
<p>ricegal reiterated what the question was.</p>
<p>epiphany: Thanks for backing me up. The thread's title was too broad and threw some people off.</p>
<p>Ok, those of you in College...How often do you meet someone from Florida compared to other states?</p>
<p>Will being a white Floridian help me in college admissions? :D</p>
<p>Worst: any middle or upper-middle class community in the Boston-Washington corridor. Being from affluent suburbs of any large city in the 48 is of no help with ivy league schools. LACs that tend to be regional in draw will look more kindly on applicants from outside their region.</p>
<p>OREGON HOW DOES OREGON STANDaa</p>
<p>willow55, that is completely untrue. One of the main reasons that the NE is so overrepresented in colleges is because of the amazing private (and public) schools in the NE. At these private schools upwards of 30% of the students are accepted to ivy league schools. Obviously the majority of people who attend private schools are "affluent" so it certaintly is NOT a disadvantage to be affluent. Also the public schools in affluent areas tend to be the best because the citizens of the town are able to pay the highest taxes towards the school and usually therefore have better school systems as well as very high admittance rates to ivy league schools. For example two of the public schools who send the highest % of graduates to ivy league schools are Scarsdale Senior High School and Weston High School, both of which are located in affluent suburbs outside of NYC and Boston, respectively. It certaintly IS helpful to live in affluent suburbs</p>
<p>If you look at the top feeders, both public and private, of HPY you will find all of the top private school feeders are in MA or NYC. All of the top public school feeders are either very affluent or application based (like stuy) and are located in NJ, NYC, or MA, with two exceptions.
<a href="http://www.auap.com/prepschoolclass.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.auap.com/prepschoolclass.html</a></p>
<p>I know that is only talking about HPY and we are talking about LACs as well as schools from other states from California, but that is just my two cents.</p>
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Worst: any middle or upper-middle class community in the Boston-Washington corridor. Being from affluent suburbs of any large city in the 48 is of no help with ivy league schools. LACs that tend to be regional in draw will look more kindly on applicants from outside their region.
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<p>Yet we are sending 25 kids to Ivies next year and sent 30 last year...</p>