Geographic Diversity in Admittance

KatzHerder
Sun, 11 Feb 2018 16:57:54 +0000

I’ve been thinking about asking this question for a while, but it really came to the forefront yesterday. My DS19 doesn’t want to go too far from home - within a state or 2 - which doesn’t take him out of our “region.” He, like most of you or your kids, has been getting mail from all sorts of colleges, most of which are outside of our area. I straight up asked an admittance officer at a tour we did yesterday about regional admittance criteria. She smiled and danced around the question, but did say that they do want a diverse student population from many geographic areas. I asked if my son and someone else were dead even but that person wasn’t from the “region,” would they get priority, and she wouldn’t answer, just said something about holistic review.
So my question to you all is, how important is it that schools be included outside the region? And how much do you think the geographic diversity really matters to small LAC’s? Are we doing a disservice to our son by agreeing to limit his search to what is close? What are we losing by not widening the net?