collegebound5

If one is a boarding student at a college prep school, I understand that their application is reviewed by the regional admission officer who handles the state that that school is in, rather than the regional admission officer for the state that applicant is from. This makes sense as the regional admission officer for the state the school is in is familiar with the curriculum of that school.
Does anyone know for purposes of admission if the applicant is still considered a resident of the state they are from, instead of the state they go to school?
Does it matter?
ie. lets say one if a boarding student at a top northeastern college prep school, but is from the south?

252525

you are considered a resident of the state in which your parents reside, not the location of the boarding school. Hope that helps.

rodney

Emory reads applications randomly; your regional admissions officer is only responsible for going out to schools and recruiting prospective students; they have ZERO input in your admissions decision.....Unless they randomly get to read your app.....

collegebound5

Thanks 2525
Rodney, why would that be? Are you talking about specifically at Emory?
At other schools, the regional admission officers only read the applications for their region, because they are familiar with the grading and curriculum at the schools in their region. This makes sense. An admissions officer for South Carolina for example, may be familiar with the curriculum at the public and private schools in South Carolina, but be totally unfamiliar with lets say Lawrenceville Prep school in New Jersey. South Carolina schools may grade on a 4.0 scale, and Lawrenceville for example may have an unweighted grading system with no ranking, and grading on a 4.0 scale. So it makes sense when colleges assign different regional admission officers to certain areas to review applications where they are familiar with the curriculum and grading there.
At most colleges the regional admission officers advocate for the applicants in their region during the admission discussions with all regional representatives from the different areas representing their own applicants at the admission table.. I know this is the case at Columbia, University of Pennsylvania and a long list of schools
Is there a different process at Emory?

dgebll

I'm not sure one way or the other on what rodney is talking about. I do know, however, that at least 3 people read your entire application, from cover to cover. There isn't anyone advocating for a certain region, as a minimum of 3 people have read the application. Also, it wouldn't make sense to do it all by region, because some regions (the southwest) have significantly less applications than, say, Georgia. I would guess, though, that the regional admission officer for each region does read many, if not all, of the applications from that region, for the reasons that collegebound5 explained, however, they read others as well.

rodney

dgebll,collegebd and others: What I am talking about is that at an admissions info session in NJ last year, it was specifically stated by both Rodney McKnight and Scott Shamberger that they do not necessarily read the applications from NY or NJ even though they are the regional reps from that area.....dgebll is correct in saying that 3 people at minimum read the application, but no, it is not necessarily done by region according to the reps that spoke....In addition, when my D was WL this year, our regional rep specifically told her GC that he did not read her app, even though he had a relationship with her through meeting her and through e-mail contact......

One more thing I might want to add regarding admissions specific to Emory that dgebll eluded to slightly; If Emory does not understand the grading in your school (i.e. grade inflation, grade deflation etc.) it would really benefit you to make sure your guidance office forms some kind of relationship with the Emory admissions office....PM me if you would like some more info on this.....

collegebound5

Thanks Rodney