Anonymous
11/28/2025 13:24
Subject: Higher chance for acceptance? Do schools look to admit schools from certain geographics?
Anonymous wrote:Ie. Southern schools to recruit from the midwest, ie Texas, Georgia, Fla. in recruiting from Iowa, Minnesota, Dakotas.
I was told most Midwestern stay midwest for college so if a kid were to apply to a Southern school, their acceptance would be given an “extra” look and acceptance by admissions.
Do schools have quotas from different geographic areas? DS looking to go to Baylor from Minnesota, engineering. He is not a too, top student.
Every school wants to say they have students from all 50 states and n number of foreign countries. Being from Minnestota won’t help. Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Alaska can give a kid an edge.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 09:35
Subject: Higher chance for acceptance? Do schools look to admit schools from certain geographics?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Some do. It says on their common data set whether they consider location in making admission decisions, and if it's very important, important or just considered.
Whatever answer they give here means nothing…
Agree. Just like when schools say they don't track demonstrated interest such as WashU, USC, and Emory. You bet they do. If not, why do they continue to use mx.technolutions.net to redirect whenever you click on their emails?
Anonymous
11/28/2025 09:24
Subject: Higher chance for acceptance? Do schools look to admit schools from certain geographics?
Anonymous wrote:Some do. It says on their common data set whether they consider location in making admission decisions, and if it's very important, important or just considered.
Whatever answer they give here means nothing…
Anonymous
11/28/2025 09:02
Subject: Re:Higher chance for acceptance? Do schools look to admit schools from certain geographics?
Some schools who would like to improve their academic reputation also want to admit more students from certain school systems to give their school a boost. Lots of out of state merit for these students.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 08:58
Subject: Higher chance for acceptance? Do schools look to admit schools from certain geographics?
Being from a more rural, Poorer area in more affluent high population states (Georgia, Pennsylvania, NC, to give a few examples) may also be a boost
Anonymous
11/28/2025 08:48
Subject: Higher chance for acceptance? Do schools look to admit schools from certain geographics?
States with low population density have fewer college bound students. Many US colleges like to be able to say they have students from (almost) every state. So a candidate from maybe Wyoming or ND might be admitted more easily than someone from NW DC.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 07:37
Subject: Higher chance for acceptance? Do schools look to admit schools from certain geographics?
It’s not going to help much at a super competitive school, but at a school like Michigan State, I looked at Naviance, and literally everyone from our DC area school was accepted in recent years. So very much school dependent.
But schools like South Carolina have gotten so competitive that just being from this area doesn’t cut it anymore.
But schools like South Carolina have gotten so competitive that just being from this area doesn’t cut it anymore.