“In-state applicants to big-name state schools often have an edge over out-of-state candidates … Ambitious college applicants who want to maximize their chances of getting into a highly ranked private college should consider applying to a prestigious private school that doesn’t tend to attract many applicants from their region, Adler says. If you apply to a private undergraduate program that’s popular within your community, you’ll reduce your admission odds because there are so many local competitors …”
Time to pack up and move to South Dakota.
Isn’t Alaska even better
All of this was common knowledge at least as far back as the mid-1980s, when I was applying to college. Coming from the Northeast, I even remember people joking that the easiest way to get into Harvard was to move to Montana (or some such out of the way state).