<p>how many people who got into stanford are from california? i didn't realize stanford accepted so many in-state applicants...</p>
<p>Stanford undergrads are 46% Californians as of 2007:</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/#student%5DStanford">http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/#student]Stanford</a> University: Common Data Set 2006-2007<a href="select" title="student life">/url</a></p>
<p>They probably accept less California residents than freshmen enrollment would suggest, but out-of-state accepted students may be more inclined to choose HYPM (and other non-California schools) than Californians are, and that probably skews the numbers so that close to half the enrollees are from California. </p>
<p>Those of us from 'Cali' (I've only heard out-of-staters refer to California that way) tend to want to stay in California. When I was in high school, pretty much all of my classmates aiming for reputable schools were aiming for University of California (Berkeley/LA/SD), Stanford, USC, Caltech, or one of the Claremont Colleges (Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Claremont McKenna).</p>
<p>^^ agreed. The yield rate for CA (and the whole West Coast, really) is probably much higher than that for other regions.</p>
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The yield rate for CA (and the whole West Coast, really) is probably much higher than that for other regions.
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<p>kyle: I'm sure the CA yield rate is pretty high, but I'd like to see your source for saying the out of state yield is significantly lower.</p>
<p>OP and Formerly: If you compare the proportion of west coast students (mostly from California) at Stanford with the proportion of northeast students at HYP, you'll see that they are similar, if not higher at HYP. Just because California isn't divided into several states like the northeast doesn't mean it's less geographically diverse.</p>
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I'm sure the CA yield rate is pretty high, but I'd like to see your source for saying the out of state yield is significantly lower.
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<p>I don't have a source; that information is not released. Notice that I said "probably." That shows supposition.</p>
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OP and Formerly: If you compare the proportion of west coast students (mostly from California) at Stanford with the proportion of northeast students at HYP, you'll see that they are similar, if not higher at HYP. Just because California isn't divided into several states like the northeast doesn't mean it's less geographically diverse.
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so you're pretty much screwed if you live in the midwest?</p>
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so you're pretty much screwed if you live in the midwest?
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<p>That's not really relevant to the point I was making. Midwest students are fairly well represented at all of HYPSM if you take into account the smaller number of graduating seniors who are applying each year. All I'm saying is that a geographic imbalance towards students who live in a school's region is nowhere near unique to Stanford, and can be found to varying degrees at most of its peer institutions. And, though I'm just supposing here (as kyledavid likes to do), it's probably because students tend to apply closer to home when presented with similarly attractive alternatives.</p>
<p>Besides California is huge. If you put California's mass on the East Coast it would go from Maine to North Carolina, or somewhere close to that. So that consumes a lot of states.</p>