Basically, I am asking if being from Oregon will help in admissions for Ivy’s and east coast LAC and if so how much. Thank you! Just trying to understand my position more. 
I doubt anyone really knows. Best of luck.
It could help provided you are very qualified as schools like geographic diversity. But will it be enough to put you in front of another applicant who is equally qualified but has some other exceptional talent? Probably not. Who you are usually trumps where you’re from. It’s anyone’s guess.
Oregon is generally not an underrepresented state for Ivies. Many qualified applicants you’ll compete against.
The good news is the admissions offices at all the most selective schools will consider your application. The bad news is that Oregon’s demographics, educational ranking (close to the bottom), and strong tradition of kids choosing to stay in state work against applicants. The growth of Intel and ‘Silicon Forest’ around 26 has brought more families who are motivated to go East, however, and it certainly happens that top applicants get in at all the Ivies and LACs. In the Portland area it is highly dependent on the applicant’s high school. OES, Catlin Gabel, and Jesuit consistently send kids East; LO/Lakeridge not as many as those privates. For PPS and Beaverton you need to look at Naviance as results vary for schools with higher URM populations and competitive pools (Westview, Lincoln, Grant, Wilson for examples.) Salem, Corvallis, Eugene and Medford (the I-5 corridor), and then out in Bend send fewer but the numbers applying are just much smaller too.
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I think Oregon is reasonably well represented. I don’t think it will give you any advantage at all, unless you happen to get lucky with an LAC that is looking for a strong Oregon applicant and doesn’t have many for whatever reason. It isn’t a disadvantage either. Having said that, it’s possible it could be slightly advantageous for prestigious Midwest LACs. Do you think so @MYOS1634 ?
Even when geographic diversity comes into play, it’s not like it is equivalent to an extra .10 pt on your gpa or another 50 SAT points. It’s kind of like an all things being equal thing. If you are in the ‘competitive, seriously being considered pool’ and there are 10 applicants and you who all look the same competing for a spot, and those 10 applicants are all from New England, than yes being from Oregon may be a tip for you.
But there are many qualified kids applying from Oregon, a big handful will be finalists. Plenty of competition within that state and the PNW. Look at Princeton’s map of states. I think they’d be more eager to find great candidates (plus likely to yield) from AR, WV, WY (and our proverbial friends from ND) than Oregon.
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agree - at Ivy’s, being from Oregon won’t help. But perhaps at some NE LACs, if you are a very competitive applicant, it may give a slight boost
Yep, I think it could.