State doesn't matter??

<p>I read this book by an Dartmouth admissions officer which said that living in a certain state doesn't matter for admissions. The book admitted that URM's do have a hook as well as legacies, however I'm skeptical about the state and school claim. I had thought that to obtain diversity, someone in an Underrepresented state, like South Dakota, with the same creditantials as someone in New York, the S.D. person would more than likely get in? I think it would be harder to get in from california than idaho because there are so many qualified applicants from california.
What do you think?</p>

<p>does anyone have a clue????</p>

<p>What is your point? You are from Dallas are you planning to move to Idaho and become URM if you aren't already? Is that what you are asking us? You haven't been very clear.</p>

<p>no...i was just wondering...and i'm not really from dallas...</p>

<p>Most admission guides mention geographic diversity. Some colleges would like to become more national. For example, Emory recruits heavily on the West Coast and Pomona recruits heavily on the East Coast. Even Duke recruits on the West Coast. You often see advice that if you live in the NE and are borderline for the top schools, then apply to some West Coast top schools in order to stand out. Colleges also like to have freshman from all 50 states (they publish it on their websites), and so certain states like South Dakota have a bump. </p>

<p>Not all adcoms are going to say the same thing anymore than any other group of people. Also, Dartmouth is not one of the colleges that has to worry about getting people from remote states to apply. It would also be unlikely for a Dartmouth adcom to go into details about geographic diversity if he was giving a talk in, say Illinois.</p>