Ranking the USNWR Top 30 by Geographic Diversity

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<p>Where</a> Does Your Freshman Class Come From? - Facts & Figures - The Chronicle of Higher Education</p>

<p>"Every two years, a U.S. Education Department survey of colleges and universities collects information about the migration of new full-time students, based on their states of residence when they apply. Use this interactive tool to see these movements in detail during a 16-year period for nearly 1,600 institutions."</p>

<p>The chance that any two U.S. freshmen at this college came from different states in 2010</p>

<ol>
<li>Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Wash U in St. Louis: 94%</li>
<li>Dartmouth, MIT, Yale: 93%</li>
<li>Chicago, Harvard, JHU, Princeton: 92%</li>
<li>Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Penn, Wake Forest: 91%</li>
<li>Emory and Tufts: 90%</li>
<li>Northwestern and Columbia: 89%</li>
<li>Caltech: 87%</li>
<li>Cornell: 84%</li>
<li>Stanford: 81%</li>
<li>Rice: 71%</li>
<li>USC: 64%</li>
<li>University of Michigan: 58%</li>
<li>UVA: 47%</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill: 32%</li>
<li>UC Berkeley: 29%</li>
<li>UCLA: 14%</li>
</ol>

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<p>Most of those numbers are just plain incorrect. </p>

<p>If I recall, Stanford is approx. 35% instate. (Indeed, IPEDS confirms it.) Caltech is 31% instate. Rice is 46% instate. Cornell is 33% instate. Columbia is 21%. (Given the size of NY, I’m surprised you didn’t catch that the numbers in your post just don’t pass the smell test.) Northwestern is 26% instate. Emory is 22% instate.</p>

<p>IPEDS has Duke at 88% OOS.</p>

<p>And (befitting it’s location in a small state), Dartmouth is 98% OOS. Brown is 96%. </p>

<p>Other than that, great post. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>“Ranking the USNWR Top 30 by Geographic Diversity”</p>

<p>…because white people in New York are totally different than white people in New Jersey and Massachusetts. Geez.</p>

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<p>Bluebayou, I don’t think you got the jist of the OP’s post. These aren’t OOS percentages, they’re the likelihoods that any two students at a given school will be from different states. To calculate that, figure out the % likelihood that they would be from the same state, and subtract from 100. If 31% of Cal Tech students are from CA, then the likelihood that two random students would be Californians would be .31 x .31 = 10%. If you figure that another 3% could be from the same state other than CA, then you get pretty close to the 87% figure. Similarly, there’d be a 9% chance that two Columbia students are from NY; a very tiny chance that two Dartmouth students would both be from NH, but a pretty good chance that they might both be from a different state. Most of these numbers smell pretty close to me.</p>

<p>Also, these aren’t the OP’s numbers - they’re the Chronicle of Higher Education’s from the link that s/he posted.</p>

<p>Other than that, great post.</p>

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Depending on what parts of MA, NY and NJ they are from, these students could bring a wide variety of different experiences and observations into the classroom setting that would benefit all others present. It’s more likely IMHO than an Indian and a Caucasian living in New Jersey share similar beliefs and come from similar backgrounds than a Caucasian living in Westchester, NY and another one who grows up in Alpharetta, GA.</p>

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<p>“It’s more likely IMHO than an Indian and a Caucasian living in New Jersey share similar beliefs and come from similar backgrounds than a Caucasian living in Westchester, NY and another one who grows up in Alpharetta, GA.”</p>

<p>You clearly were not born in this country.</p>