<p>As I walk down the streets of my neighborhood, I can’t spot anyone else who seemed to be …capable/qualified/eager (?) of applying to Penn, or even college in general. </p>
<p>Do you think that Penn would put into consideration the number of people applying from the same town? If the number of qualified people is less, maybe my chances, given that I’m in the “zone” (high gpa, ECs, recs, great scores, etc.) would be better?</p>
<p>Just a speculation fueled by desperate hope. Meh.</p>
<p><em>looks at your location</em></p>
<p>Baahahaha</p>
<p>lol the "towns" in nyc are so small.</p>
<p>btw what school are you going to</p>
<p>My interviewer, who was from NYC, said that when she applied to Penn there were enough people within a 20 block radius applying to Penn that they could fill the entire Penn class twice. But she was kind of old, and there are much more people applying to college these days. So I guess you're set.</p>
<p>The only time location helps is if you live in Wyoming, N/S Dakota, and maybe Idaho. My cousin was in orientation last year and the speaker asked the students from North Dakota to stand up, one student stood.</p>
<p>Location helps if you're in the Penn region. I live about 20 minutes away from Penn and a bunch of the counselors from my high school are pretty tight with the admissions officer for our region. Universities generally admit a sizeable percentage of students from the area. I know there are 3 kids from my school, 3 from the next town over, and 5 from the town on the other side going to Penn. These are public schools in NJ, by the way. My friend goes to this school in Philly that is sending 18 kids to Penn, and another one I know of is sending 12.</p>
<p>Oh snap, move to North Dakota while you still have the chance!</p>
<p>On a more serious note, if you did your best and know you're gonna apply, just do it - don't worry about it so much. You shouldn't obsess over this kinda thing. Once your app's in the mail, it's all out of your control, and if you get in, great, and if not, well, it won't hurt as much.</p>
<p>Oh, I heard this one story of this Ivy League guarantee service thing where they advised people to move to underrepresented states just to get into Harvard, Yale, etc etc. How crazy is that?</p>
<p>lol I'm sure some people consider moving to michigan for the admit rate/low tuition for umich</p>
<p>PS. that guy from North Dakota plays WoW! Whodathunkit</p>
<p>Well, sweetnsarah, the Philly (and Philly suburb) admits may have had legacy status or connections with Penn faculty. The same thing happens with Princeton High School, which sends a ridiculous number of kids to Princeton University each year and for that is called one of the top 'feeder schools'. But really it's a misinterpretation of causality: the kids didn't get in because they went to PHS; instead, the reasons why they got into Princeton are the same as the reasons why they went to PHS in the first place. Examples: an alum stayed in Princeton after graduating, and his kid goes to PHS; an adult lives in Princeton, then went to the university for a graduate/professional degree; an adult works at Princeton, and their kid goes to PHS.</p>
<p>I live in the next town over and I see the same thing - people take classes at Princeton, do research with their professors, work on their campus, and get their parents to work there. In the end they almost always get in. It's definitely more common at PHS, which gets I think 30ish kids into Princeton each year, while my school gets about 10ish.</p>
<p>Plus, NJ's public schools are the best ever. :p</p>
<p>I second theoneo's thoughts. I live right next door to PHS too... i go to good ol montgomery.</p>
<p>theoneo, I am not sure what the case is at Princeton High School, but there ARE some high schools which act as "feeder" schools for some of the top universitites. </p>
<p>Some of the top prep schools that are located near these universities have kids constantly going from their high school to the university, and if those kids are successful, the adcoms know more about that school. Some of these prep schools form relationships with the universities which have lasted for many years. Again, this is for a very select few, but there are some.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm not disputing that. I've heard of the schools that were founded just to prepare kids for certain universities, and that they continue to foster their relationship well. I'm just pointing out that the situation with PHS (and its nearby schools) might be similar to that of the schools near/in Philly that send a lot of kids to Penn, which sweetnsarah brought it up.</p>
<p>Michael, I go to the Fame School (I wanna live forever!).</p>
<p>OK so location probably won't ...help. But when you look at Harvard, 25% of their people are from the Mid Atlantic region, which is the highest percentage of a region in the US. I dunno..i would say it's the same case for Penn.</p>
<p>That's probably cause the mid-Atlantic region is one of the most populated, not to mention educated region of the US. I can garuntee you the mid-atlantic region also has the most kids applying to top schools. </p>
<p>New York, Jersey, Pennsylavania...</p>
<p>By Fame, do you mean Laguardia, if so what's your program?</p>
<p>yeah, LaGuardia Arts. I'm an intrumentalist</p>
<p>Unusual Satire - What year are you and what do you play? My sister is auditioning for piano in November and I think she has a decent shot.</p>
<p>oh that's great. I'm a junior and i play the piano and violin.</p>