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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]She should be able to get to a top 25 as long as she has a good sat score 1500+. [/quote] Nope. Plenty of kids with 1600 are rejected from T25 schools every year. [/quote]

Yes but plenty of those kids come from highly populated metro areas where those stats are very common. [b]This kid has a hook: rural.[/b] [/quote]

how do you know rural is a hook?[/quote]

Geographic diversity and less competition. [/quote]
does geographic diversity "count" within states though? i went to a pretty, uh, inadequate high school in rural southern illinois and I'm not sure that counted for anything. Pretty sure I was still competing with the kids from the New Triers and Walter Paytons (i.e., the hyper competitive high schools in the Chicago area) of the state. If anything I feel as though it was probably a disadvantage because my school had no track record of ever sending kids to Ivies or even kids applying to them.[/quote]

It doesn't, and geographic diversity is always overstated.  State flagships, may consider regional diversity, that's the way to play that hand.[/quote]
+10000. If you live in Wyoming or Alaska, it may be good for something because colleges love to be able to say "we have students from all 50 states!" Otherwise? "Rural" is not a geographic diversity hook, especially if you are rural in a state such as say, Illinois or New York or Pennsylvania that also have highly educated metro areas with a lot of students applying.[/quote]

It works for UVA instate.[b] Better to be the valedictorian in rural VA than the 15% of Woodson[/b].[/quote]
no sh*t sherlock, that's not what people are talking about[/quote]

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