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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1300/1600 is very low for a white kid to be admitted to an ivy without a major hook. It sounds like this was many years ago, when it wasn't so difficult.[/quote]

Ok maybe I am venturing into too much identifying info but my curiosity is getting the best of me

1) white male

2) college years 1996-2000 (seems like a long time ago and much harder now right?)

3) not athlete at all

4) trumpet in school band

5) only hook i can think of is Eagle Scout?

6) or the rural southern diversity element -- which apparently used to be very potent??

Not to humblebrag, but besides the ivy I attended, I was also accepted to MIT, Harvey Midd, Duke -- so there was some pervasive affirmative type action at that time. I was rejected from Harvard, my only rejection.

Does coming from rural schools still hold weight? Maybe I should move home to improve my kids chances ;). Nah, I was woefully unprepared for college; going from a far too easy high school to elite university was a shock, and honesty my confidence never recovered which was a factor in my very modest career (I would have ended up in same place  am now if I had gone to  State U).  [/quote]

OP, I think it is still a true to this days. I don't have statistics and I am sure colleges will deny having any quotas for rural areas, but I know few people like you who got in from very rural areas (one from West Virginia got to Ivy, and one from N Dakota got to Air Force Academy). Both of them doing well professionally, but both of them admitted that that was the only decisive factor why they got in (similar stats as your: low SAT, nothing extra, not athletes, etc.).

I was wondering sometimes if I should move with kids to the rural area, but I was too scared to bet on this.

I think it is similar to colleges keeping quotas for kids coming from overseas. [/quote]

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