<p>This should be useful:
<a href="http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/applying/profile.php</a> bottom of the page. Montana and Wyoming look like good picks. The problem with this is that this map is of enrolled, not admitted students, so it just might be that they admitted more but those matriculated elsewhere.</p>
<p>Arizona and New Mexico: somewhat of an advantage, but Ivies usually get some applicants from these states. It will be a bigger advantage if you come from a rural part of Arizona or New Mexico. The biggest advantage is if you live on a native american reservation or attend a native american school. Ivies might not see apps from these places for years straight. </p>
<p>Michigan (not Detroit): if you live in the upper peninsula of michigan, that area is so highly underrepresented that even university of michigan is trying to get more applicants from that area.</p>
<p>Wyoming
Oklahoma
North Dakota</p>
<p>would probably have least students apllying to Ivies</p>
<p>Gotta agree with shrek on why NJ gets so many kids:</p>
<p>Better public schools than all but a handful of states
Many kids in top notch privates
Highly educated parent body
Many kids with an IVY mentality. Rachel Toor discussed how much easier it was to snag top students from the south and from Calfornia, compared to New England, where the majority of top kids think schools outside IVY league are IVY league backups. This even applies to the Duke's of the world, but that mindset is vastly different in the other regions of the country.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, when I visited Dartmouth, I saw a student handbook for the freshman class that listed ONE person from West Virginia, in addition to Montana, Wyoming, etc. Just thought that was funny because practically every state surrounding it had many many more students, and it's so much closer and greater in population than MT and WY.</p>
<p>Maybe the Ohio thing helped me out. I also saw in the handbook that at least half of the Ohioans came from affluent Cleveland suburbs. The only local person was someone from Findlay, and I know two more kids on their Quiz Bowl team probably going there. I think my interviewer said only one other local applied to Dartmouth so, given the statistics, I'll probably be the only Toledoan there.</p>
<p>You want to be from an under-represented state, try Wyoming. There are only 400,000 people in the state. Two kids admitted to Yale this year and one (cross admit) to Harvard.</p>
<p>The funny part about NJ is that although there are a lot of smart kids--they all leave NJ to go to school, partially because there are not many competetitve schools outside of TCNJ, Rutgers, and Princeton...</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm in rural NJ, and most of this year's class is going to Rutgers, as they do every year. Does rural (northwestern) NJ have any advantage? (Gotta have hope, haha)</p>
<p>What about rural washington state?</p>
<p>What about Idaho?</p>
<p>Rural NJ - No, sorry
Rural WA - I dunno
Idaho - Definitely</p>
<p>Ah, crap. Need every bit of help I can get ;P</p>
<p>North Dakota, woo!</p>
<p>New York sucks! Too competitive. Mass is worse</p>
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<p>NJ is only the second highest feeder state (in % of HS grads going to college). ;)</p>
<p>How about VA...I mean Northern Virginia (suburbs of Washington, DC)</p>
<p>I am pretty sure we are not under-respresented in most Ivies, but how about Stanford, UB Berkley. Are there any good schools where it might be advantageous to be from NoVA?</p>
<p>How about rural IL? Small town, crappy school, 2 hours from Chicago. Or maybe just the midwest as a whole?</p>
<p>The Harvard viewbook shows the following:</p>
<p>Oops!</p>
<p>Mid-Atlantic: 25%
Pacific/Mountain: 20%
New England: 17%
South: 17%
Midwest: 12%
International: 9%</p>
<p>I live in pondunk cow town in upstate New York. I'm afraid the ivies will think I'm just another kid form long Island. I think Cornell (about 150 miles away)might understand that my I am not a the son of some rich people from "the city", but what about the rest of the ivies</p>