<p>How do colleges consider where are you from? The place you born or the place that you attend the high school?
Live in which state in New England gives you a better shot in college admission?</p>
<p>I don’t think they factor in at all where you were born. However, they perhaps do factor in where you’ve resided. When I was talking to a Georgetown admissions officer, he said explicitly that “you have a leg up upon the competition” by being an applicant from X state (like Alaska, Wyoming, Nebraska, or the Dakotas). Most fancy pancy prestigious schools get loads of applicants from New Jersey, California, New York, Boston, and Chicago (to name a few). Those places of residence aren’t going to help you any. They like to see “diverse” applicants; while state of residence isn’t everything, it is one of the things they may consider while looking at your app. Being in New England probably won’t help any either (living Vermont might be a tiny bit better).</p>
<p>Being from New England probably won’t help you with schools in the Northeast, but there may be schools elsewhere that draw more regionally where it might help a bit.</p>