<p>Tell me if there is any truth behind this:</p>
<p>Many Ivy Leagues are filled with students mostly in the eastern coast + large crowded states in the west, i.e. Washington and California.
If the want diversity in student class, they also consider a regional diversity as well. A student from Mid-West may be viewed differently by an adcom then a student from say, the east coast. Follow?</p>
<p>Yeah, a student who comes from a very different geographic background from other applicants might get a second look based on that...especially 'cause colleges love saying that they have students from every state and xyz foreign countries, too!</p>
<p>don't you need the subjunctive tense in that subject line?</p>
<p>navy_blue: OMG, that was bugging me too! We'll start a grammarians' club @ Harvard next year, okay? ;)</p>
<p>I noticed it too, navy_blue.</p>
<p>Okay, but if you start a grammarians club, call it subjunctive MOOD, not tense.</p>
<p>that was why i clicked on the thread in the first place. because i was thinking angrily, "WERE! WERE! WERE!"</p>
<p>tokenadult, I was about to type that myself when I saw your post. Take spanish by any chance?</p>
<p>I learned to call it subjunctive MOOD from a high school classmate. He and I were in a Russian class together (mood matters in Russian) and he had taken Spanish. He knew a lot of grammatical terminology that I didn't know in those days. Mood and tense are definitely distinct categories in Greek (which set the agenda of Western investigation of grammar), a language I later studied. On the other hand, BOTH mood and tense are completely absent from the Chinese verbal system, although of course Chinese people can talk about events that happened in the past or are happening in the present, and can also talk about contrary-to-fact suppositions. I was a Chinese major in university; it was interesting to see how much of the grammar everyone learns in high school doesn't apply AT ALL to Sinitic languages. </p>
<p>Returning to the subject of the thread (ahem), most of the really desirable universities get applications from everywhere, every year, but there is definitely a desire to have attendees from all fifty states and a good variety of foreign countries at all the top schools, so being from a low-population state (think Wyoming or one of the Dakotas) can sometimes be a marginal boost to admission chances.</p>
<p>Tengo Espanol 4 AP. Me gusta la clase. Es muy dificil pero aprendo mucho porque mi profesora es una maestra buena. No se por que estoy escribiendo en espanol ahora. </p>
<p>Espero que Harvard vaya a mandarme una carta que dice "Te acceptamos!!!"</p>
<p>hahah, that was fun. Very simple spanish, but fun nonetheless. I even threw in the subjunctive mood. </p>
<p>Yeah...if he/she "WERE" bah! </p>
<p>When I was in 7th grade, it used to bug me whenever i said "WERE" because it was awkward. Now, it bugs me whenever people say "If____ WAS" They do that a lot on T.V. Language is versatile anyway, so it might become an exception later. </p>
<p>OMG! The grammar club would be the NERDIEST thing ever. The Elements of Style could be our bible!!! How sacrilegious, but haha! That's funny. </p>
<p>I'm lame, and it's really late at night, so bare with me.</p>
<p>You know, if you're alone in your room at night, going on college confidential, you can crack up for no reason at all.</p>
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<p>Anyway, subject at hand. Yeah, being from the Mid-West gives you a good advantage, especially because I do not think a lot of people from the Mid-West apply as compared to the east/west coast. I might be wrong though. That's just an assumption I made.</p>
<p>what would one do in a grammar club? write and correct papers?...lol....just the idea gives me the creeps....if there's anything wrong in my post....feel free to correct....</p>
<p>P.S. I'm from the Mid-West! yay!</p>
<p>I'm in, for the grammar club! We could have activities to raise grammatical awareness, petition local shopkeepers to use proper grammar in their signs, and protest against student publications that make grammatical mistakes (or not).</p>
<p>I'm from the midwest. But since Ohio is relatively competitive, I don't think I got much of a geographical advantage in the admissions game.</p>
<p>anyone read eats, shoots and leaves?</p>
<p>good book.</p>
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<p>Because it was late at night, and because I make human-error typing mistakes too, I won't rag on you too hard for not writing "bear." ;)</p>
<p>Allure-I have. I didn't think it quite lived up to the hype, but it was still good.</p>
<p>tokenadult: I wrote that to see if anyone would catch it! hahaa, bah! I'm lying. </p>
<p>just<em>forget</em>me: "I'm in, for the grammar club! We could have activities to raise grammatical awareness, petition local shopkeepers to use proper grammar in their signs, and protest against student publications that make grammatical mistakes (or not)." </p>
<p>That's the FUNNIEST thing I've heard. haha, you guys crack me up! </p>
<p>But anyway, one thing that always bug me is "10 items or LESS." It's actually "10 items or FEWER" </p>
<p>If only I WERE an ASIAN from North Dakota.....</p>
<p>All this talk of a Harvard Grammar club kind of makes me wish I had applied :(</p>
<p>lol, i know an asian from ND who was accepted EA...</p>
<p>I'm from South Dakota and I got in EA... 4.0, 1600 sat, varsity basketball, a part-time job, independent studies and online courses, all 5's on my AP tests, and all 800's on my SAT II exams. I also taught myself how to play the drums, guitar, and the piano... I'm taking my fourth years of both Spanish and German, and I've also taught myself how to speak russian fluently.... Ok, now I'm showing off too much... I really had to work hard because of my crappy location and also because I come from a low income family... But all in all, I guess I had a lot of "hooks."</p>
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<p>But about your bragging... it's okay; it was probably because you felt that you had to explain to others that being from a low population state doesn't mean that you will get in with fewer accomplishments.</p>