Advantage for In-State Applicants or Not?

Pizzagirl
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:46:36 +0000

Well, you’d also have to know what % of each state’s college-age students had applicants to Dartmouth in the first place. This mistake is made time and time again on CC, and it’s really frustrating. Dartmouth may have a greater-than-expected % of its admits from New Hampshire, but that could be consistent with a) a lower admission rate for NH’ers, b) an “even steven” admission rate for NH’ers, or c) a preference / higher admission rate for NH’ers. It all turns out on how overrepresented NH is in the admissions pool in the first place.

An analysis that bclintonk and I did together shows that Dartmouth, and indeed all the Ivies, skews heavily to the northeast, so it’s very likely that NH’ers are overrepresented, but that means nothing in and of itself.