Georgraphic Residence and Advantage??? Or No???

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<p>Is your geographic location an advantage for getting into Stanford? Let's say you lived in....Maryland? I know it is for some other schools and I was j/w</p>

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<p>anybody…??</p>

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<p>No, it shouldn’t be within certain limits. However, if you were to live outside of the United States, the acceptance rates are not as high.</p>

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<p>However, like all schools, Stanford likes diversity :D</p>

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<p>Certain states have admissions advantages.</p>

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<p>Just curious, I know that applicants from states like South Dakota and Wyoming have an advantage but what about kids from Arkansas or Alabama?</p>

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<p>It helps to be from Arkansas or Alabama if we’re comparing to the more well-represented states.</p>

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<p>I’m a Mexican-American student from Oklahoma that happens to be a national merit semifinalist. My friends/teachers/counselors tell me that diversity goes to my favor just because Stanford would like to say that the Class of 2014 or whenever has attendees from all 50 states and x number of countries.</p>

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<p>In a way it is possible.
Being a National Merit Semifinalist makes absolutely no difference because there are lower cut-offs in a state like Oklahoma compared to a state like New York or California anyway. However, if you reach the academic and extracurricular achievement that a student from a northeast or west coast school, then some admissions officers would say you have a slight “advantage” not because of your geographical region but because you have, in a way, made more use of the resources available to you (based on the idea that more resources are available to Northeast/West Coast schools that are typically better).</p>

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<p>Geographic diversity definitely helps as one of those <em>extras</em> it obviously won’t get you in by itself, but if you’re tied with a kid from CA it can be a tiebreaker.</p>

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<p>The whole “states like Wyoming and Arkansas offer applicants a slight advantage because they’re underrepresented” thing is just a rumor on CC. No one has any data to back it up (i.e. acceptance rates by state, or better, stats and such from people from such states).</p>

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<p>phantasmagoric-</p>

<p>Well, I have never really tried to gather stats to see if state by state admission rates varies, but doesnt it just make sense that colleges would try to actively admit more students from underrepresented states. I mean most colleges want diversity in all forms…so why not geographic diversity?</p>