<p>Much of this geographic diversity stuff is folklore. A place like Yale attracts really talented kids from all over the country, and the world.</p>
<p>In fact, the high schools in the Northeast have an advantage in placing their students at Yale because they have much better established relationships with Yale adcoms. Not to mention that kids and parents from the Northeast are much more ‘savvy’ in playing the admissions game.</p>
<p>My D personally knows a brilliant kid, 2400/4.0 with all 5’s on lots of APs and 800’s on subject tests who maxed the ACT as well, who was rejected by Yale, <em>and</em> was from an ‘underrepresented’ state. She knows many kids from overrepresented states who are at Yale who are far less impressive than this kid.</p>