Underrepresented States

rickpaul80 · 06-09-2005, 04:17 PM

Is Kansas an underrepresented state?

Hanna · 06-09-2005, 04:23 PM

For Ivies and the like in the Northeast? It is compared to, say, New Jersey.

collegeboundjen · 06-09-2005, 07:19 PM

I believe so.

sr6622 · 06-09-2005, 07:21 PM

oh yeah, try Arkansas

Poog · 06-09-2005, 08:05 PM

Is Maryland underrepresented at schools such as Arizona and Colorado?

edvest1 · 06-09-2005, 11:50 PM

Not sure if you mean New Jersey is under-represented, Hanna. But my S (at an Ivy) has many Jersey classmates, in fact more so than other states except Cali and Mass and NY. Who would have thought unappealing,sleepy Jersey send so many students to Ivy.

Hanna · 06-10-2005, 12:02 AM

No, I meant that NJ is over-represented. Kansas isn't under-represented compared to Alaska, but it is compared to a huge feeder state like NJ.

admissionsrep · 06-10-2005, 12:17 AM

Schools want as many states as possible, but often their marketing materials break the nation down into regions. The Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic are the two most overrepresented areas for IVY's and most of the top LAC's which are found between Pennsylvania and New England.

I think the worst states to be from are:

New Jersey
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut

You may as well put New Hampshire and Pennsylvania right up there if we are talking about schools located between PA and Vermont. The states I listed above have better public schools than most of the nation, so they get better applicants. In addition to this, students from these states often have an IVY mentality that is not evident to anywhere near the same extent in the south, midwest, southeast, or west coast. The LAC's are often household names amongst educated families, but these same LAC's have never been heard of in other regions of the country.

Being from the midwest is a pretty big hook at a lot of schools; I've seen Ohio help out a lot of applicants and Kansas is more sexy than Ohio.

uhhh · 06-10-2005, 02:33 AM

What about southern states like Georgia??

DieselBoy · 06-10-2005, 05:57 AM

what about Quebec?

cangel · 06-10-2005, 10:54 AM

Being from the South can be a hook for NE, especially if you are not from a 'burb of Atlanta.

uhhh · 06-10-2005, 11:54 AM

That's exactly where I'm from- a 'burb of Atlanta. Haha.

kfc4u · 06-10-2005, 05:09 PM

Kansas is an underrepresented state but the Ivies usually receive at least some applicants from there.

For everyone else, don't be quick to judge states as a whole. An applicant from southwest Texas or rural northern california might be just as underrepresented as the typical underrepresented states, even though they come from overrepresented states.

shrek2004 · 06-10-2005, 05:13 PM

for ivies, it is probably not advantageous to be from...

New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Massachusetts
Connecticut
California
Illinois
Texas

QuickLikeCat · 06-10-2005, 06:18 PM

What about Arizona and New Mexico?