<p>This has been a prevailing thought among high school students in Massachusetts over the past several years.
Any opinions or facts, anybody?</p>
<p>Well so many people from around here apply...</p>
<p>I don't think it's, like, a quota of MA residents or anything, no. But probably it'd be easier if you were from Wyoming or something.</p>
<p>Not if you've gone to BC High.</p>
<p>Actually, my neighbor graduated from BC High last year with a 4.3 weighted GPA and stellar SATs, and was waitlisted at Boston College. I was floored.</p>
<p>I'm very surprised, too!</p>
<p>They've been having mad BC High backlash recently, because the BC High boys are so used to getting in. I know a lot of kids from the past couple years who didn't get in from BC High.</p>
<p>Yeah, and the whole triple eagle thing has been huge in the Boston area for decades, a lot of parents push their sons to go from BC High to Boston College to BC law just because they know the kind of connections those kids will have around here when they can say they are a triple eagle. So many of Boston's more well-known politicians and attorneys have been triple eagles.</p>
<p>It's not just Massachusetts that sends a deluge of apps to BC. Anytime you live in an area that has far more qualified applicants that the school can accept, geographics starts playing a role. The very top schools have enough national appeal that they will get a better geographical distribution of applicants. But when you have a school that wants that distribution, but tends to have the bulk of their applications from certain areas, those in the more obscure parts of the company will get a leg up, all things equal. However, since BC and other like colleges do not get as many applications from outlying states, it does leave more space for "locals' than for a school where there is more out of area competion.</p>
<p>"I don't think it's, like, a quota of MA residents or anything, no. But probably it'd be easier if you were from Wyoming or something."</p>
<p>Why do ppl here always mention Wyoming??</p>
<p>So you think that being from Mass makes it a little easier to get in because there aren't as many out of state applicants?</p>
<p>It just seems like far more Mass students get rejected these days than in years past. May just be due to a larger number of apps overall?</p>
<p>I think more kids from many of the schools that were "feeders" to BC are getting rejected. BC has become very hot.</p>
<p>wyoming is the least populated state therefore probably has the least amount of high school students graduating</p>