<p>On the application it asks what county you live in if you are instate. I was wondering if anybody knows whether being from a rural county where fewer people apply would help in the admisssions process.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>it depends. nova sends more ppl to uva but have more ppl applying. generally expect the ppl who get in to be within top 5-10% in their graduating class i guess.</p>
<p>The answer is yes it prob does help a little. It’s probably not going to get you in over a more qualified applicant–I’ve always looked at it like this–If there was one spot left and it came down to two identical kids, one from nova and one from some random rural county, the rural kid would get the spot.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think it matters where you live as long as you are in-state(Virginia) but I am not an Admission Officer. That would be a good question to call them about, I recrommend you do that. They will definately scruntinize each applicantion to see which applicant is more qualified over another.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that they have general quotas, and in some sense you have an advantage if you’re top 5 out of a class of 50. So rural schools in southern VA have a certain advantage because they are much less competitive than NoVA schools.</p>
<p>Rural schools also have fewer resources and draw students from much less economically advantaged backgrounds. </p>
<p>Students from southwest Virginia do see marginally higher acceptance rates, but this may also be due to who applies.</p>