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[quote=Anonymous]I am from one of the states people love to specifically mock on this and other threads -- Nebraska.   The people I know from my hometown who were admitted to the types of schools that DCUM intelligensia would choose themselves have a file that would rival a Whitman kid's file.   They too have traveled to China, made the "humanitarian pit stop service trip" to Latin America over spring break.  I don't know their SAT scores but I do know they take AP classes in their suburban high schools.  Their parents are doctors and business executives (or owners).  They play travel _____ sport.

Anyway, my observation is as OP suggests -- the odds of these kids gaining admission are slightly better because there are fewer of them (when compared to their doppelgangers in Bethesda, Bergen County and Boston).  It's not that they took regular Science II while your east coast kids took AP Biology.  It's that there's 30 of them in Omaha and 300 of them in Montgomery County.   This enhances their chance of getting picked.   [/quote]

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