<p>^ jym626,
I wish it were as easy as a single table. The College Board issues a Total Group Report: College-Bound Seniors 2009, accompanied by separate state reports for every state. You need to download the state report (.pdf file) for the state you’re interested in, then scroll to the back of the report, second-to-last page, and there will be a table listing the 45 schools that received (one or more) SAT reports from the most students in that state. In NJ, for example, it shows Rutgers #1 with 29,246 New Jersey 2009 college-bound seniors sending SAT score reports to that school; Montclair State #2 (12,110); and so on. Surprisingly (to me, anyway), Princeton isn’t even the most popular Ivy among NJ students, at least in 2009. Cornell received SAT reports from 3,669 New Jerseyans, edging out Princeton with 3,468 and Penn with 3,137. Columbia (2,364) and Brown (2,009) were the only other Ivies to make the top 45 in New Jersey; no Yale, no Harvard.</p>
<p>You can find it all here:</p>
<p>[College-Bound</a> Seniors 2009 - SAT Total Group and State Reports](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/sat/cb-seniors-2009]College-Bound”>SAT Suite of Assessments – Reports | College Board)</p>
<p>I think this is really useful raw data, especially on the most selective schools that require all applicants to submit SAT II scores. Lots could be done with it. I’ve begun to fiddle with it a bit. One preliminary conclusion: even at the super-elite level, college applications are far more local/regional than many people suspect. New Jerseyans apply to Princeton and Ivies in adjacent states (NY, PA) in very large numbers, but not so much to the New England Ivies. New Englanders apply to the New England Ivies in large numbers (though CT residents don’t apply so much to Harvard or MA residents so much to Yale) but by and large not to the Mid-Atlantic Ivies. Stanford draws extremely well in the West, Southwest, Northwest, Great Plains, and Industrial Midwest, but not so much the Southeast or Northeast. Duke and Vanderbilt dominate the South (except Texas which swings more southwestern and Florida which swings more northeastern) but, except for Duke’s strength in the DC area, are largely ignored in the rest of the country. Northwestern is very popular among Midwesterners but the University of Chicago less so (apart from Illinois), but neither of these schools draws strongly from anyplace outside their home region. I’m thinking about drawing some of this up in tabular form if I have time to do so.</p>