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<p>Actually, some schools do weigh which geographic region and even which high school a student attends to increase geographic/socioeconomic diversity and sometimes, to favor applicants from high schools producing successful students/graduates<em>, and to scrutinize applicants from high schools where past admits have struggled academically, dropped out, or turned them down en masse</em>. </p>
<p>All the above have been confirmed by friends, acquaintances, and a relative who worked in Ivy/elite university/college admission offices. </p>
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<li>Both of these factors ended up impacting elite/Ivy admissions for both good and ill respectively at my urban public magnet high school historically.</li>
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