<p>Do I gain advantage at college admission if I attend a high school in a less competitive state?</p>
<p>Bump..........</p>
<p>What's a "less competitive state"?</p>
<p>Colleges are interested in geographic diversity. It won't make or break an application, but if adcoms are choosing between equally qualified candidates who live in California and Wyoming, the kid from Wyoming will have an edge, because the state is less populous so there are fewer applicants from that area.</p>
<p>But oh, God, please don't move to get an advantage in admissions. That's crazy.</p>
<p>Edit: Looking at some of your previous posts, you should know that according to colleges, you live where your parents live and where they pay taxes, not where you go to school. So if your family house is in CA but you go to school in WY, colleges will still see you as a CA applicant.</p>
<p>would geographic diversity be a situation such as myself being from Washington State applying to Boston U?</p>
<p>Yes, exactly.</p>
<p>quaere,</p>
<p>Your take on college geographic distribution is mosty right but--- In addition to the general geographic diversity of the freshman class (which is based on hometown), many college admissions offices divide their personnel by geographic regions. Each of these people are vying to admit a certain number of the kids they have visited with or recruited. So, for instance, an admission counselor at a Northeastern school whose territory is the Southeast or Southwest may invest more energy in seeing a student from their region admitted because s/he will have fewer applicants from that region to begin with. At that level, being a student at a prep school outside of the Northeast, for example, may be an advantage to you if you are applying to a Northeastern school.</p>
<p>Yes; many schools even have regional admission officers, who makes the first reading.</p>