Corbett

For comparison, I looked at other northeastern schools that post their CDS forms online. There are four possible levels of relative importance for the different admissions factors, which are:

- Very Important
- Important
- Considered
- Not Considered

At Middlebury, Dartmouth, Swarthmore and Williams:

- Geographical residence is "Considered"
- State residency is "Not Considered"

At Amherst, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Brown, and Yale, on the other hand:

- Geographical residence is "Considered"
- State residency is also "Considered"

So all of these schools do consider geographical residence as a factor in admissions, though not as an "important" or "very important" factor. Furthermore, many schools apparently do care about the specific state that an applicant hails from, although other schools -- including Williams --apparently do not.