<p>How much of an advantage does an in-state applicant have over an out of state student in terms of being admitted? Is there any type of quota that they have to fill in for NJ students alone?</p>
<p>To my knowledge, not that much. I doubt that residence would be a major deciding factor at an ivy league school (or many other private schools) in admission. Then again, you never know.</p>
<p>None. Princeton, as a private university, has no obligation to admit any number of NJ students.</p>
<p>ah thanks for the help</p>
<p>They do take A LOT though, just look at the admit map. I suspect it having to do with their connection with local schools + the fact that some locals may be more inclined to stay at home, or close to home.</p>
<p>^Because they have more local applications.</p>
<p>I disagree. If you look at collegeboard's data on number of applicants by state (or rather, the top twenty or so universities that collegeboard sends reports to, by state... since you know Princeton requires 3 SATII's it thus includes ACT takers) there are several states with more applicants.</p>
<p>I think like 1/4 or 1/6 of the class of 2011 was from NJ.</p>
<p>1/4??? Holy crap that's a lot.</p>
<p>I doubt it's that high. If anything, being in-state for Princeton would count against you.</p>
<p>I really don't think it was quite that high....</p>
<p>19% of the class of 2012 is from NJ (collegeboard.com)</p>
<p>Procrastination, where did u find the applicants by state stats?</p>
<p>Check collegeboard, google "score reports sent by state collegeboard"</p>
<p>I was talking about the total applicants in the country, solely Princeton instead. Not about the total applicants in New Jersey in general.
That is a general situation in the colleges that they tend to have more applicants from the local high schools. For example, Stanford has more applicants from Cali than any other states.</p>
<p>they don't publish that data. there is only a map of matriculated students on their website, under apply for admission/admission stats</p>
<p>yea, but that's a general trend.</p>
<p>Also remember that admitted students from NJ are probably more likely to matriculate than people from elsewhere. If you're coming from Texas or California and you get into a few comparable east coast schools, location isn't a factor. For NJ kids (or at least for this NJ kid), it provides one reason to go to Princeton over a competitor.</p>
<p>In addition, the chidren of faculty members, aka "facbrats" have a significant advantage in admissions at every school, so there will be a certain number of those kids every year. Otherwise, I don't think what state you come from matters.</p>
<p>Yea, in-state kids are definitely more likely to come. All public hs graduates that go to Princeton get an extra grant so they don't have to pay their "work during the summer" contribution each year.</p>