<p>In college applications? If you plan on going to college on the east side but you live on the west, does that help any? Also, what about minorities such as Hispanics?</p>
<p>Public colleges give preference to instate. Privates don’t care. Hispanic applicants may or may not get consideration. Depends on what college.</p>
<p>URM is a hook, state can be a tip. Top colleges get tons of applications from Western cities and affluent suburbs and westerners are well represented. As you go down in the rankings, it becomes less likely to cross the Country for a college so it is a boost at schools below the top. The real boost is being from states that are underrepresented everywhere like Alaska and the Dakotas.</p>
<p>Well I was looking at some of the colleges at DC and they have very low Arizona represents. GWU only has 3 (I’m not sure if that is low or not).</p>
<p>GWU isn’t a college that values geographic diversity enough to give you any sort of advantage. At this point, it’d just be point of curiosity. Work on the GPA – now *that *matters.</p>
<p>I’m a Hispanic from Louisiana, so this is relevant to me as well 
haha.</p>
<p>I doubt being from Louisiana would help much though… its my ethnicity that’ll likely be the ‘tip’ factor.</p>
<p>Well, I have a really good GPA and great EC’s, a little above average ACT score. Just wondering if I can get any hooks from being a minority and living in Arizona.</p>
<p>I think it will definitely help if there are only 3 fom your state.</p>
<p>Well I’m talking about any school in the east. The more I research, I see that Arizona does not have much reps at all on the east.</p>
<p>A school does not need many from any one state, they just want as many states as possible represented.</p>
<p>Okay. So being from Arizona and applying to a DC state might not help much? I know being a minority will. Just seeing if I can get as many hooks as possible…</p>