<p>^^Only admitted students have access to it.</p>
<p>What about US citizens in an international location?
Would they be placed under the international country’s category, or the state where they used to live in?</p>
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<p>If a state is underrepresented it is because students from that state get in with less frequency than from other states. </p>
<p>For example, if you compare the number of admits from New York and New Mexico and adjust for the populations of those states, there are far more admits from New York than from New Mexico (per capita). </p>
<p>The issue of geographic diversity has been discussed many times on CC, and I don’t want to revive that discussion here. But I’ll just say that applicants from underrepresented states should not expect any extra admissions boost. It may be quite the contrary.</p>
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<p>True enough, but we don’t know why that is. It could be Yale rejects them at higher rates but it could also be that there are simply far fewer applicants from those states in proportion to that state’s population. Anecdotal evidence I have (that Minnesotan applicants are admitted at about the same rate as those from the nation as a whole) suggests the latter but we really don’t know because we don’t know aggregate statistics about the applicant pool, only about the matriculant pool.</p>
<p>The notion of going to Yale is an ideal held much more frequently by students in states surrounding Yale. Many excellent students in more distant states never consider it.</p>
<p>All I can say that is that I know being underrepresented helped for Columbia ED. Her interviewer specifically told her that.</p>
<p>@wjb
Sorry, that was a stupid question … but how about from 2009?</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Meet the freshmen](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/02/meet-freshmen/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/02/meet-freshmen/)</p>
<p>thank you wjb</p>
<p>WOW! only 7 wait-listers accepted.</p>
<p>^ The admissions team can usually predict the yield quite accurately.</p>
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<p>Interviewers often say things that are not 100% accurate. The general consensus is that being from an underrepresented state is good if you have the stats but it’s not a “hook” or anything.</p>
<p>Coming from an underrepresented state is certainly helpful if all other criteria that admissions is dependent on are held constant, but more often than not, it is not the case.</p>
<p>^Yes, yes I would certainly agree with that. Basically the interviewer told her that they will always accept one person from her state ED and only 5 applied. So that’s a 20% admit rate right there. They ended up accepting 2. Of course, the interviewer could have always made things up.</p>
<p>What school was this interviewer from?</p>
<p>Hey for Vietnam, it’s 5 admitted :D. But only 4 will enroll</p>
<p>I know of 2 Canadians this year who have chosen Harvard over Yale, and both were admitted SCEA.</p>
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<p>We live in a very underrepresented state. Most of the top students from the state do apply to Yale, Harvard and Stanford. And I happen to know Yale’s acceptance rate for last year. It was well below the global acceptance rate- less than 5%. And since we moved recently from an overrepresented state in the Northeast, my daughter knows that the caliber of the students per se is the same in both states. In other words, neither state has inherently smarter kids. </p>
<p>I can think of many possible reasons for this bias in favor of the overrepresented states. Perhaps there are simply a lot more alumni, potential donors, perhaps even URMs in a place like New York or California or New Jersey, compared to Minnesota or Idaho or Utah or New Mexico. Perhaps the high school counselors have better connections and relationships with the admissions office. </p>
<p>And I kid you not, I also think the admissions officers who are assigned to the underrepresented states tend to be younger and less experienced and are less effective advocates for applicants from their assigned states. Why would the younger admissions officers get the underrepresented states? Because that job needs far more travel to distant places with more nights in hotel rooms in unexciting cities like Boise. The seasoned veteran adcom will get New York or California.</p>
<p>Would somebody with experience and info about Blue Marble and how it works-etc for the statistics here etc–please drop by the parent forum–and look for the B.M. thread…</p>
<p>I asked about it–and it seems we “older” folks haven’t a clue…</p>
<p>these stats are very interesting–wonder how to find others…</p>
<p>Is this a company that culs the stats–or is it a platform/social network with the “flags” of those participating in a particular forum??</p>
<p>fogfog:</p>
<p>“Blue Marble” is simply a section of the Yale website for new admits. It displays the locations of all new admits and allows them to provide names, photos, and other personal information. It is not available to the general public–only new admits to the Yale Class of 2014 have rights, and it will soon disappear as these admits are transitioned to new students and move from the purview of the Dean of Admissions over to the Dean of Students.</p>
<p>Thanks. Got it . ^^ ;o)</p>