<p>What I mean to say is: I am from Florida and I applied EA. Whenever I talk to people about CC around here, they look at me like what the heck is Colorado College? Are most applicants from the west coast? Does that impact admissions decisions at all?</p>
<p>Look, there are some 3000 or more institutions of higher learning in the USA.<br>
So unless you’re talking Ivy League (and not even all of those), a big state flagship or sports powerhouse, chances are your school’s name will not elicit knowing nods among all people wherever you go. This is true of Amherst College or the University of Chicago, too.</p>
<p>CC’s Office of Institutional Research posts student profile information on the college web site.
<a href=“http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dean/oir/documents/Section3EnrollmentRetentionCompletion.pdf[/url]”>http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dean/oir/documents/Section3EnrollmentRetentionCompletion.pdf</a></p>
<p>The school draws from a national applicant pool, with a few perennially unrepresented states (Mississippi, W.Va.) and more underrepresented states (southern states, rural midwestern states). In 2008-2009, almost a third of the student body hailed from Mountain states (as you might expect), especially Colorado. The Pacific and Eastern Seabord states also take up big slices of the pie. Florida is not one of the top 10 most represented, so I dunno, you may get a little boost for geographic diversity.</p>
<p>The best way to elicit an occasional knowing nod among people semi-informed about colleges is to say something like, “It’s on this thing they call the Block Plan, where you take one course at a time. Just as many courses per semester, but you take them in sequence instead of all at the same time. Yeah, it’s in Colorado Springs, right at the foot of Pikes Peak.”</p>