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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think folks are just forgetting how much geography plays a part of all college decisions.

86% of all students at residential colleges attend a school within 500 miles of where they are from.

If Harvard was located in Minnesota, you would have tons more midwesterners apply. How many threads on DCUM basically have parents saying their kid needs to be a 4 hour drive away.

32% of WashU is from the Midwest and only 5% is from New England.  If WashU was moved to Vermont, the numbers would be reversed.

Perhaps it feels less stressful if you live in Iowa and you are told you can go to any college within 500 miles…you just eliminated every East Coast and West Coast hyper competitive school.
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This speaks more truth than most posts in this thread. Yup, I literally read the whole thread.

People discount the regional pull of schools, especially the big brand names, like HPY, but ALL schools have their strongest impact regionally.

East Coasters don’t seem to realize that UChicago, Northwestern, Carlton, and the Big Ten are just as valuable in the Midwest as HPY. Vanderbilt, Duke, UVA, Wake Forest, Davidson, UNC, W&L, and W&M are strong in the South. Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Pomona, and the Claremont schools are well-recognized in the West.

Yes, I know that DCUM knows these schools and their geography, but too few seem to recognize that if you don’t live in the NE or Mid-Atlantic, NE schools are not considered the end goal. It’s not that a degree from HPY can’t serve one well anywhere, but it’s that a degree from Vanderbilt will do just as well where its influence is strong. [/quote]

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