<p>Is living in the same town as the college you're applying to considered a hook? Does it help out at all? As in you've lived in Hanover, NH or New Haven, CN your entire life? Do colleges lower their criteria/standards for those kids, and accept more kids from those towns?</p>
<p>Living your whole life in New Haven, CN? Yeah I’m sure you’ll get into Yale.</p>
<p>Not at all. If anything a bunch of people apply from there. On the other hand if you know the profs, or one of the profs knows your teacher who writes a good rec that may help. </p>
<p>Not sure though.</p>
<p>Probably not because a lot of people from your town will probably be applying. It’s just like kids in the Northeast have a disadvantage when applying to certain colleges because a lot of people from that region apply.</p>
<p>Haha i said CN, i dont live in connecticut (CT)</p>
<p>that made my day :)</p>
<p>No i mean like not that entire city, but like a neighborhood in the city that borders the college</p>
<p>like i live in a certain neighborhood which borders a top ivy league school, and the college and my neighborhood have issues over land and how the college doesn’t benefit and give back to the town, and i’ve noticed over the years that a lot of kids from my school who get into that school (over 25 per year), come from that neighborhood, many are qualified or overqualified, but some are just average as in high gpa but no extracurriculars at all</p>
<p>i know that at least for Duke, living in NC helps your chances A LOT.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it depends…but if you want to go to Stanford and you live in Palo Alto, for example, that is definitely not a hook…</p>
<p>I think it can help, but it all depends on how many apply.</p>
<p>Guaranteed, they’re going to let in quite a few from the surrounding town; it helps to build community relations, strengthens likelihood of acquiring land, etc. However, they’re only going to take a certain # each year, so you have to be near the top of those applying from your area.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter, but here what DOES: if you live in a town of a college to which you’re applying, but you have never set foot on campus, especially on a tour where your name will be recorded, your application is almost definitely going into the dumpster.</p>
<p>Yeah, you definitely should have official visits if you are in the surrounding area.</p>
<p>No. They need to accommodate staff kids and the many legacies they typically have in such towns. And the coaches know the local athletes so there is always a lot of local athletic recruits. That gets them to more representation of the area than they need or want.</p>
<p>^Yeah, like I said earlier. Of course if you have been researching with a prof since eighth grade that may be a different story… hmom5, for some reason I doubt a Yale legacy would live in New Haven.</p>
<p>Most elite colleges do give extra consideration to students from their own town.</p>
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<p>Why do you doubt this? I know one such person, and I’m sure there are plenty more.</p>
<p>I believe Harvard admissions explicitly stated that they give preference to students from Cambridge.</p>
<p>And an obscene number of kids from Ithaca High School get into Cornell, including more than a few that aren’t even in the top 25% of their class. I don’t think that legacy has that large of an effect, but I don’t know how much a staff parent is worth.</p>
<p>^Yeah, like I said earlier. Of course if you have been researching with a prof since eighth grade that may be a different story… hmom5, for some reason I doubt a Yale legacy would live in New Haven.</p>
<p>Kind of true. I heard New Haven is pretty rough.</p>
<p>New Haven has many nice towns within a few miles, there are many legacies in the area, Yale’s hospital has tons of the top doctors in the Country, it’s hugh and the home of many researchers. Drug companies have grown out of it. The University employs many of it’s grads, and service industries have grown up around all of these folks.</p>
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<p>Because the good Yale alum retreats to the suburbs or the most affluent part of the city? Give me a break.</p>