<p>You are at an advantage if you are not from California, Greater Chicagoland, or Boston-Washington corridor. These students make up over half the college population at the undergraduate level, yet these locations only have 25% of the US population. Seriously, being able to drop Alaska or New Mexico on your app is helpful, which means you are from a small town. The year I entered for instance, and I would wager it is still true now, the College was not close to having one students from every US state. There were at least like 5 that had none.</p>