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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some of you are eliding the elephant in the room.

UVA is a southern school. There was a big demonstration by white supremacists. No, the white supremacists weren't directly related to UVA, but there is already a stigma against southern schools to begin with. People who want to send their kids to a top school, out of state, tend to be very image conscious and the harsh reality is that being a southern school that just had a giant big supremacist demonstration next door is an off-putting combination many parochial northerners.

By being in the Bay Area, UC Berkeley is largely immune to this "guilt by association." It's not fair, but it is what it is. If anything, UCB is perceived as being the "liberal elite." But the people that are offended by that tend to not be academically inclined anyway, so it doesn't hurt them.[/quote]

There is a reason why even the best southern schools - duke, vandy , rice, Emory - are markedly easier to get into than the top northern/western schools - hypsm

That said, the southern schools are less discriminatory against asian applicants funnily enough.[/quote]

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