<p>so how much will it help that i am a student from boston applying to stanford</p>
<p>Not at all. No difference.</p>
<p>not at all...private colleges, as a rule, don't care about geographic origin (new england is well represented), unless you're from North Dakota or some place that is not well represented at all...</p>
<p>why would it help you??</p>
<p>haha, hoonose, you and i posted at the exact same time, and started our posts in the exact same way...cool!!</p>
<p>Does Stanford still do that thing where they have to take like 40% California applicants? Because in that case, being OOS would impact us negatively, wouldn't it?</p>
<p>Or perhaps I'm being stupid, I don't quite remember what the tour guide said about the OOS thing. I've been sort of wondering about this issue as well.</p>
<p>Being from Boston doesn't help in college admissions lol.</p>
<p>I don't know if Stanford has to take any Californians; it's not a public school like the UCs, CSUs, or CCCs. I've never heard of that 40% or X% policy.</p>
<p>Stanford does not have to take anyone, It ends up accepting a lot of Californians because everyone from California applies, so the numbers play out that way.</p>
<p>Quixotic & nngmm - Cool, good to know. </p>
<p>I remember hearing the tour guide say something about how Leland Stanford specified it that way, but that was probably for like a century ago. xD Or maybe my brain is fabricating things.</p>
<p>I've heard that too. In any case, by the numbers, CA is the most represented state by far.</p>
<p>An interesting note: Stanford was originally founded with the vision that it would serve the "children of California" (though it was never an official guideline for the university, nor is it today).</p>
<p>I believe Leland also said that it should be free for Californians but unfortunately we don't get that today. :(</p>
<p>even though, really, Stanford could pay for all its undergrads to attend for free.</p>
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Geographic Affirmative Action. This mainly benefits Midwesterners and Southerners.</p>
<p>Not at Stanford and the likes. They have plenty of people applying from everywhere, and they don't care if some years they don't have students from all 50 states.</p>
<p>what is oos?</p>
<p>Out-of-state</p>
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Stanford could fill it's entire class with qualified kids from California alone if it wanted. So, no, geography does play a role in the admissions decisions. And, no, they don't do it by state; they do it by region.</p>
<p>^^ and how do you know?</p>
<p>For what it's worth, while I was visiting Stanford, I spoke with an admissions officer and asked her about how much Stanford pays attention to geography. She explicitly stated, they do not try to fill "quotas" or make sure to get students from every state; their goal is to admit qualified students, and being from one area won't advantage or disadvantage you. The fact that Stanford ends up having wide geographic representation happens naturally.</p>