Geographic Diversity?

pdl100
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:28:27 +0000

Look at the state coverage in a list of where the students are from, and you can probably figure out where the most represented student body hails from. For example, Lawrenceville takes lots of students from Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, among others, while Groton has a high concentration of Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut, among others. Other states, such as California, often send more children than you would think to boarding schools.

Don’t write yourself off simply because you come from an over-represented area. Plenty of students coming from these areas do get in- that’s why they’re over-represented. It’s extremely difficult to tell what any given school is looking for in any given year, so you might be the right or the wrong fit for a particular school, no matter your home state. It’s important to realize that this only gives you an edge over a similar or almost identical candidate and won’t typically put you in a different pool, unless you live in a very underrepresented state or country.