<p>On the application it asks what county you live in if you are instate. I was wondering if anybody knows whether being from a rural county where fewer people apply would help in the admisssions process.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>it depends. nova sends more ppl to uva but have more ppl applying. generally expect the ppl who get in to be within top 5-10% in their graduating class i guess.</p>
<p>The answer is yes it prob does help a little. It's probably not going to get you in over a more qualified applicant--I've always looked at it like this--If there was one spot left and it came down to two identical kids, one from nova and one from some random rural county, the rural kid would get the spot.</p>
<p>No, I don't think it matters where you live as long as you are in-state(Virginia) but I am not an Admission Officer. That would be a good question to call them about, I recrommend you do that. They will definately scruntinize each applicantion to see which applicant is more qualified over another.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that they have general quotas, and in some sense you have an advantage if you're top 5 out of a class of 50. So rural schools in southern VA have a certain advantage because they are much less competitive than NoVA schools.</p>
<p>Rural schools also have fewer resources and draw students from much less economically advantaged backgrounds. </p>
<p>Students from southwest Virginia do see marginally higher acceptance rates, but this may also be due to who applies.</p>