<p>I have heard that Stanford is not all that pushed to accept California applicants, wanting to accept from further away.</p>
<p>Having heard of some exceptional applicants getting outright rejected from California, I am thinking there might be some accuracy to this.</p>
<p>Anyone heard anything similar</p>
<p>Keep in mind that the percentage of top students applying to Stanford from anywhere will be from California. Everybody and their mom applies.... seriously, some schools have like 80 people apply!</p>
<p>Stanford, I believe, is almost 50% Californian, but that might be simply because Cali's a big state. On the other hand, Stanford says they consider geographic location. So I dunno.</p>
<p>There are some exceptional applicants from every state that getting outright rejected by Stanford and other schools of its caliber...</p>
<p>My sister was recently told by someone in the Stanford admissions office that it was relatively easier to get into Stanford from regions outside the West, because they want to maintain a national student body and their yield from such students is lower than their yield from California kids, so they have to dig a little deeper in the pile and accept a few more.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my strong impression is that overall geographic diversity means less to Stanford than it does to the Ivies. Part of the attitude there is that California (and the West Coast in general) is the most diverse place in the world, and you really don't need to go outside of the West Coast to get a completely diverse student body. Without checking, I would guess that there is a bigger percentage of California kids at Harvard and Yale than there is of New York kids at Stanford.</p>
<p>EDIT: I checked a little. 44% of Stanford's undergraduates, and 42% of the current freshmen, are from California. It doesn't give other state-by-state details, except international undergraduates are about 6%. By contrast, Harvard's freshman class has about the same number of students from "Pacific" region states and New England region states (18% vs. 17%), and 24% from Middle Atlantic states (NY NJ PA DE MD). So I stand by what I said.</p>
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Exactly. It is an unfortunate truth that not every outstanding applicant can be admitted because there simply isn't room.</p>
<p>More people apply from California than anywhere else, so maybe the regional acceptance rates are also reflective of regional application rates.</p>
<p>If you're a California resident, you should be going to a UC anyway...unless Stanford gave you a scholarship that justifies the ridiculous tuition.</p>
<p>I think that if you're RIGHT (maybe 40 mile radius?, bay area) around the area, it might be easier because I live kind of near and both my brother and I got in without stellar stats or awards or anything. I think maybe they want to help the community or something. However, if you're from LA or some other area far away from Stanford then it probably won't help you get into Stanford. That's my conjecture.</p>
<p>virtuoso_735, that doesn't make much sense. If anything, it should be even harder to get in from the Bay Area, because I'm guessing that tons of kids apply just because. Especially considering the proximity of the Silicon Valley and all the Asian-American applicants.</p>
<p>To help the community, maybe they would accept poor, underrepresented minorities from the East Palo Alto area or the East Bay that don't have as many awards or whatever. Maybe that's what you mean.</p>
<p>Yeah that's probably what I mean...</p>
<p>I'm in the SF Bay Area, and in my area (a few cities), we're lucky if we get 1-2 acceptees a year per school.</p>
<p>^Each school in the area gets 1 or 2 per school or the ENTIRE area gets only 1 or 2? I'm thinking the former.</p>
<p>^^ uh, he/she said "per school"...</p>
<p>Keep in mind that California is about 1/8 of the US population but about 1/2 of the Stanford population. This can be interpreted in different ways.</p>
<p>There are stats about the percentage of applications from California vs. the percentage of applications from outside of California. The percentage of applicants from California and the percentage of accepted students from California are very close. </p>
<p>Students in the area might also have parents who work at Stanford. That helps.</p>
<p>^Can you post the actual statistics of the percentage of OOS applications and percentage of CA applications?</p>