"Geographic diversity"

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, we were told by college counselor that there is some advantage applying to Midwest schools that typically don’t receive as many applications from this area (Grinnel, Macalester, even Notre Dame). Rice too. The sense I got was it wasn’t going to make a candidate below stats work, but could make a well-qualified candidate more likely.

The negative reactions posters often have to going to school in these areas would support this theory.

Sorry, Grinnell

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, we were told by college counselor that there is some advantage applying to Midwest schools that typically don’t receive as many applications from this area (Grinnel, Macalester, even Notre Dame). Rice too. The sense I got was it wasn’t going to make a candidate below stats work, but could make a well-qualified candidate more likely.

The negative reactions posters often have to going to school in these areas would support this theory.

I used to work at Macalester -- and went to Grinnell -- and they are both chock full of kids from the east coast. Probably the majority of their applications are from the coasts.

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Anonymous wrote:i suspect that a student from the DC area might get a meaningful advantage if applying to a low population remote state such as Wyoming, the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and other places where no admission boost is needed.

Might generate better responses if certain targeted schools were named (Univ. of Texas, SMU, Rice, Colorado College, Pomona College, Claremont McKenna, Tulane, the Maine LACs, WashU in St. Louis, etc.).

I do not think that there is any geographic diversity boost for a DC area student in the Northeast US or for the elite Chicago schools.

I realize that this post may not be very helpful, but it may help to generate additional responses.

DC is not considered geographically diverse by any of the schools in your first list. Wash U doesn't consider DC a "geographic diverse" admit. None of those schools do.

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, we were told by college counselor that there is some advantage applying to Midwest schools that typically don’t receive as many applications from this area (Grinnel, Macalester, even Notre Dame). Rice too. The sense I got was it wasn’t going to make a candidate below stats work, but could make a well-qualified candidate more likely.

The negative reactions posters often have to going to school in these areas would support this theory.

DC was also told something similar by college counselor.

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, we were told by college counselor that there is some advantage applying to Midwest schools that typically don’t receive as many applications from this area (Grinnel, Macalester, even Notre Dame). Rice too. The sense I got was it wasn’t going to make a candidate below stats work, but could make a well-qualified candidate more likely.

The negative reactions posters often have to going to school in these areas would support this theory.

So I'm more likely to get into a college I don't want to attend? Yay, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, we were told by college counselor that there is some advantage applying to Midwest schools that typically don’t receive as many applications from this area (Grinnel, Macalester, even Notre Dame). Rice too. The sense I got was it wasn’t going to make a candidate below stats work, but could make a well-qualified candidate more likely.

The negative reactions posters often have to going to school in these areas would support this theory.

So I'm more likely to get into a college I don't want to attend? Yay, I guess.

C’mon, of course that is not what the poster meant.

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Anonymous wrote:Geographic diversity can also be applied to a school that isn’t so far away, but typically enrolls students from nearby. My ds is enrolled at the University of Louisville and has a merit scholarship that is only available to students who live in large cities outside of Kentucky, ie Chicago, Dallas, DC, NYC, etc. It’s

It’s not a top-ranked school by any means. But it’s a good fit for our son, and the $12K a year in scholarship helps a lot.

My daughter goes to U of L and absolutely loves it! Go Cards!

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I think there a lot of third rate schools that might give a boost for a kid from this area but I don’t think those are the schools you’re hoping to get it from.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there a lot of third rate schools that might give a boost for a kid from this area but I don’t think those are the schools you’re hoping to get it from.

Not sure anyone really cares about filling their roles with NOVA kids, you people think way to highly of yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there a lot of third rate schools that might give a boost for a kid from this area but I don’t think those are the schools you’re hoping to get it from.

Not sure anyone really cares about filling their roles with NOVA kids, you people think way to highly of yourselves.

Wait, DCUM kids...your self adoration is gross.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there a lot of third rate schools that might give a boost for a kid from this area but I don’t think those are the schools you’re hoping to get it from.

Not sure anyone really cares about filling their roles with NOVA kids, you people think way to highly of yourselves.

There are plenty of schools looking for wealthy students, that's all that's implied.

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Anonymous wrote:There are schools that want urban representation. Going to a DC public school absolutely is an advantage in this.

I have heard from many families who had kids go through both private and public schools in DC that they saw 1st hand a difference.

Translation - going to Wilson rather than a Big 3 might have seemed bat shit crazy. But if the goal was college placement, it's genius.

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I think it will matter for for target students applying to far away locations (like CA) but not for highly competitive places like Stanford, Cal Tech, top UCs, Pomona where they already have more than enough qualified DMV candidates applying.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are schools that want urban representation. Going to a DC public school absolutely is an advantage in this.

I have heard from many families who had kids go through both private and public schools in DC that they saw 1st hand a difference.

Translation - going to Wilson rather than a Big 3 might have seemed bat shit crazy. But if the goal was college placement, it's genius.

DH and I had this conversation years ago with me arguing that Wilson would be more attractive for college admissions (and a better school for their SEL over the long term). We didn't go that route and both DCs ended up in their FCs, but I still stand by it.

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My babysitter is at the University of Washington. It is mostly in-state, Pacific NW and international applicants and was higher-ranked for her major (STEM) than other schools she was accepted into. UC schools are hard to get into from out-of-state so UW is a great West Coast option especially if students are seeking tech careers after graduation. Campus is relatively compact and with a classic college campus feel in spite of being in the city, plus gorgeous views and unique access to water and mountains.