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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it is harder when from DC (and probably NYC, other big cities). It’s harder bc there is so much competition both from within your own school (hard to be in the top 10% of your graduating class when everyone is a super star) and when there are so many applications to the same top schools from your general area. Colleges like to diversify where students are from. A kid graduating in top 5% of a large, poor public high school, outside of major urban area that also has a high GPA, high test schools, and manages to take hard classes (maybe AP maybe DE at local colleges)- will have better chance than someone with similar stats from DC than maybe isn’t in top 5% of class school is filled with overachievers, so maybe they are top 20%[/quote]
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