What are the most underrepresented states in eastern colleges?
Alaska?
None of the things you asked like this or other posts (such as your “what majors are white men underrepresented in” thread) will get you into a college you are not otherwise qualified to attend. You are who you are and you should study what you want to study. Apply to a range of reach, match,and safety schools for your academic stats (which appear to be strong) that appear to be affordable and you will be fine.
time to delete my account so people can’t sneak through my posts
i was just wondering
People are not sneaking through your posts. They are trying to help you. It is common here for people to look up past posts to try to get a better picture of the person who is posting. In this case, you posted a question that indicated that you may not have a good understanding of how admissions work. The previous poster looked up your prior posts to see what other questions you have been asking to see if that was the case.
Do you live in Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico?
It would be more helpful for you to post your stats, budget, and interests. Then posters could help you find schools that will be good fits for you.
You can’t delete your account. Sorry. Underrepresented states are helpful, but @happy1 is correct, and so is @me29034 . Yes, regular posters often look through a user’s other posts because they are trying to get a better picture of how they can best help someone. As a white male, you are not in danger of being unfairly discriminated against in college admissions, regardless of where you live.
Apply to any LAC, you’ll actually get a little boost.
Not sure what this thread turned into. I wasnt asking for myself to see if i could somehow raise my chances by moving to some other state (i think that’s what you thought it was?) I just wanted to know if there was a list of applicants by state, I’m just interested in college stats and stuff like that.
Many school websites list student statistics for an enrolling class. For example, Wellesley’s decisions just came out yesterday, and in their news release they said the admitted students “hail from 921 high schools in all 50 states and 42 countries outside the United States.”
On their admissions webpage, they give a geographic distribution for the class of 2020 by regions of the US, and also list the top countries of citizenship for international students.
If you’re interested in college statistics, besides looking at the Common Data Set information for a school, you may want to look at IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System). They list admission statistics, such as the percentage of in-state vs. out-of-state students, gender breakdown, race/ethnicity breakdown, etc.
Most people ask about themselves, so that is probably the default interpretation of a post that could go either way. I am reminded of the person who worded a hypothetical post in present tense, like “Will I have better chances as (x)?” when they weren’t that thing, and actually meant “WOULD I?” Gotta make it crystal clear.
Also I don’t think it’s unfair to say that some of your questions tend to come across as pushy or self-interested (“how do I force the other college to let me get a summer internship?”). Maybe posters are subconsciously associating that attitude with your posts.
I will make these last comments here:
–Can/Would your family just up and move to a remote state just to give you at best a very slightly increased chance at a college?
–Colleges will take note of where you spent the bulk of your HS years which will be obvious from your transcripts.
–Any ploy you can think of which might slightly increase your chances, college admission officers have seen a thousand times over.
–Once again, I think that trying to find these “angles” to slightly increase your chances at admission at a top tier college is largely a waste of energy. Be who you are in your college application – tell your story proudly, describe your strengths, discuss your interests etc. well. As I noted before, I think your time would be better spent finding good match and safety schools that you would be happy to attend.
And for the record, as others have said it is not unusual for regular posters to go back to old posts to glean more information about the poster. The idea is to try to help, not to “sneak”. If you prefer I not posts to your threads further just let me know.
I replied to an earlier post you had asking about people from a rural area. I am going to assume that you are academically ambitious but worried that you do not have the same opportunities available to you that you read about on CC. I get that and I get that transportation can be a huge hurdle to overcome.
Being from a rural area is your geographic diversity. So what you have to do is show through your activities and application that they will be getting a bona fide rural person.
So what do you do that would show a rural point of view? Shoot the breeze with the retired farmers at the diner in town? (Ha! Trick question- I don’t know any farmers that retired!) Get up really early and duck hunt before school starts? Stack hay bales for the friend’s horses? Observe the flocks of wild turkeys and read up on them? Bicycle down gravel roads to visit old immigrant churches? What you normally do is fine!
@“Snowball City” , that is such a great comment. Colleges want diversity of all kinds. My D goes to a selective college in Maine. One of her classmates is from a town so small that there are only something like 50 kids in the high school. The town, in Maine, is a five hour drive away.
You simply do the very best with whatever opportunities you have, or can create. People are here to help you, not beat on you. You are getting some good advice here.