<p>I think that the boost from the east coast is less on numbers and more on the quality of students applying. Like I said before, many top students from NY, NJ, Mass., don’t want to go across the country, leaving room for more “lesser” qualified applicants. Lesser doesn’t mean low scores or grades, it just means NOT the people with perfect scores that cured cancer and are from jericho high school. It leaves it open to very strong, I’d say unhooked, applicants. I go to school in NY and from what I hear from the top students I know and students from other schools is that they have applied early too…but to Columbia, Princeton, Harvard etc. (I’ve actually heard more Columbias than anything else) but no Stanford. I’m not saying that no one from NY applied to Stanford, but a large majority of the top students did not. I guess we’ll see if I’m right in two weeks…</p>
<p>Is there any data telling how many students currently enrolled at Stanford come from specific states?</p>
<p>@Parchese, I think that this is particularly true now that P and H have reinstated Early Action, so I think the boost would be very significant for very qualified NY/NJ/MA students and not be so strong for more mediocre applicants.</p>
<p>@tampabayw - I have that exact data in PDF format. I would post a link but I don’t remember where it came from.</p>
<p>@tampabayw -</p>
<p>This is Stanford’s Fall 2009 newsletter to counselors. This was, if I’m not mistaken, the last letter in which they included state-by-state matriculation figures. </p>
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<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>*Edit: This is just for the last class they admitted at the time of newsletter; that is, the Class of 2013, although I can’t imagine figures vary widely from year to year.</p>
<p>Well what matters aren’t the exact numbers, they’re the apporximate ranges which don’t really change from year to year</p>