<p>I am from Nevada. Does that help me at all? lolzz</p>
<p>what part of nevada? I am from nevada too lol. Post ur stats</p>
<p>las vegas
10char</p>
<p>dude what school do you go to?</p>
<p>sam sam sam..
haha</p>
<p>geography always does, if you're megalapolitan (either coast) in a negative way.</p>
<p>I really can not get the numbers for Stanford, but use the following as a guide.</p>
<p>Geographic Distribution of the Class of 2012 </p>
<p>State -- Harvard, Princeton, Penn
Alabama -- 5, 7, 9
Alaska -- 1, 3, 3
Arizona -- 16, 6, 16
Arkansas -- 1, 1, 3
California -- 189, 148, 219
Colorado -- 8, 7, 24
Connecticut -- 44, 47, 77
Delaware -- 5, 4, 7
District of Columbia -- 14, 7, 19
Florida -- 51, 49, 81
Georgia -- 25, 26, 32
Hawaii -- 8, 5, 7
Idaho -- 1, 0, 3
Illinois -- 49, 32, 50
Indiana -- 10, 4, 10
Iowa -- 3, 4, 9
Kansas -- 2, 4, 6
Kentucky -- 7, 4, 11
Louisiana -- 2, 3, 9
Maine -- 9, 5, 5
Maryland -- 40, 66, 114
Massachusetts -- 216, 58, 82
Michigan -- 20, 15, 24
Minnesota -- 15, 8, 23
Mississippi -- 1, 2, 1
Missouri -- 12, 11, 19
Montana -- 1, 0, 5
Nebraska -- 2, 1, 5
Nevada -- 5, 3, 3
New Hampshire -- 26, 4, 6
New Jersey -- 59, 168, 243
New Mexico -- 11, 0, 10
New York -- 193, 133, 297
North Carolina -- 12, 16, 16
North Dakota -- 1, 1, 3
Ohio -- 30, 16, 35
Oklahoma -- 6, 8, 6
Oregon -- 6, 8, 21
Pennsylvania -- 48, 77, 397
Rhode Island -- 10, 1, 7
South Carolina -- 8, 4, 6
South Dakota -- 0, 1, 2
Tennessee -- 14, 13, 20
Texas -- 67, 37, 67
Utah -- 5, 3, 7
Vermont -- 5, 2, 5
Virginia -- 25, 48, 50
Washington -- 22, 7, 17
West Virginia -- 4, 3, 3
Wisconsin -- 11, 9, 12
Wyoming -- 1, 0, 2</p>
<p>That distribution frightens me as a Hawaii resident.</p>
<p>i hate being from california sometimes :(</p>
<p>why?</p>
<p>California has the most people lols</p>
<p>because that means it has the most competition. they want more diversity, meaning they'll take less CA kids if they can get more kids from say.. south dakota.</p>
<p>^ Not necessarily, maybe South Dakota just has less competition?</p>
<p>*That distribution frightens me as a Hawaii resident. *</p>
<p>Same. Probably all those kids except one or two are from privates too =/</p>
<p>There are nine kids from Vegas in the freshman class here at Stanford...including me.</p>
<p>So would being from Ohio help me just a tad? But it's a long shot for everyone, especially me, lol, so who knows.</p>
<p>Honestly, if you are a decent applicant (top of class, 4.0, 2100+ SAT, good recs, demonstrated passions) and write good essays, then you will most likely be accepted by Stanford or a similar institution. A great deal of students do not nail each one of those categories. Furthermore, of those who do only a select few actually write decent essays. Focus on these factors which you can at least control.</p>
<p>Geography is not something you can realistically control (although I guess you could move to South Dakota). Furthermore, being from a state like Wisconsin or South Dakota may have the reverse effect. While it may be more common for students in California schools to apply to Stanford, only the midwest's cream of the crop apply and are more likely to have gone out of their way to have learned about Stanford. It's unlikely that the one South Dakota kid was the kid who slipped through. Although, it's possible to imagine that one of the many Californian admits slipped through.</p>
<p>I should emphasize that that is all speculation though.</p>
<p>I'm from Arkansas and have been accepted to UChicago (EA), Wash U and MIT. I do wonder how large a part my location has played. A Harvard admissions counselor told me this once: "If the tenth best student from Colorado is a stronger applicant than the best student from South Dakota, we will admit the student from Colorado." I wonder to what extent this is true.</p>
<p>Actually, I would assume that colleges look at you in the context of your high school. This would include geography. For example, if you’re at a low performing high school, colleges try to find out if you went above and beyond the curriculum and scored well on the SAT/ACT.</p>