<p>Would Washington be counted as a underrepresented state excluding the UCs and any University in Washington. DUH! (:</p>
<p>Also, does being for an underrepresented state place you in a separate admissions pool like being an URM?</p>
<p>bump, i'd like to know what states are considered underrepresented and how much benefit you get as well</p>
<p>It probably still varies from school to school. I don't think unless you are from Alaska or Hawaii that there truly are, across the board, underrepresented states. Being from the northwest probably will help you in places in the east coast, while like you said, with the UCs, it probably wouldn't help you in particular.</p>
<p>I have never heard of a separate pool based on state of origin. Colleges on both coasts and the South certainly like to see students from outside their general area. It doesn't rise to the level of URM status, I don't believe, but it's nice if they can find kids from less represented areas. Wyoming, Idaho, Kansas, Montana... those sorts of places are likely to be more exotic to top ranked schools on the east coast than Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. But, it certainly can't hurt. ;)</p>
<p>Iowa
Wyoming
Idaho
Kansas
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota</p>
<p>From the Brown Daily Herald:</p>
<p>Class</a> of 2008 boasts geographical diversity - Campus news</p>
<p>"Director of Admission Michael Goldberger, noting that traditionally underrepresented states such as North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada"</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>"very low volume of applications from certain states, mostly in the Great Plains"</p>
<p>What it Really Takes to Get into Ivy League....:</p>
<p>What</a> It Really Takes to Get Into Ivy ... - Google Book Search</p>
<p>Lists WY, MT, ND, SD, AK and West Virginia</p>
<p>The top 10 are probably</p>
<p>Alaska
Hawaii
Wyoming
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
West Virginia
Mississippi
Arkansas
New Mexico</p>
<p>And maybe Vermont, New hampshire, and Maine as well.</p>
<p>I would just like to throw my terrible home state of Kentucky into the ring.</p>
<p>You gotta understand though that many schools on the less represented list have comparatively bad educational systems to other states that are more competitive. Many schools in these regions do not offer AP classes (people on CC will be amazed that a significant percentage of US high schools do not offer at least one AP <em>gasp</em>, and that many are underfunded). Teachers in South Dakota are among the least paid in the nation. </p>
<p>It is from these circumstances that applicants come from... This is not an issue of whether this would help me in college apps and how it compares to URM status. </p>
<p>Also, the admissions process is so large, holistic, and personalized it's not like: this is better than this, and that this will clearly help over this type of thing.</p>
<p>I'd have thought Louisiana would be in there, since Mississippi is.</p>