Regional Quotas for Harvard?

<p>Clearly having too much time on my hands, I’ve reconciled US Census data with the Harvard 2012 geographic distribution numbers to determine how each State stacks up in overall representation at Harvard.</p>

<p>Any State over 1.00 is overrepresented and any State under 1.00 is underrepresented.</p>

<p>USA 1.00
Massachusetts 8.78
District of Columbia 6.25
New Hampshire 5.26
Connecticut 3.35
New York 2.65
Rhode Island 2.54
Vermont 2.15
Maryland 1.88
Maine 1.83
New Jersey 1.82
Hawaii 1.65
Delaware 1.51
New Mexico 1.47
California 1.37
Pennsylvania 1.02
Illinois 1.02
Washington 0.88
Virginia 0.85
Minnesota 0.76
Florida 0.74
Texas 0.72
Ohio 0.70
Georgia 0.68
Arizona 0.65
Tennessee 0.60
West Virginia 0.59
Michigan 0.54
Missouri 0.54
Wisconsin 0.52
Nevada 0.51
Wyoming 0.49
Utah 0.48
South Carolina 0.47
Oklahoma 0.44
Kentucky 0.43
Colorado 0.43
Oregon 0.42
Indiana 0.42
North Dakota 0.41
Alaska 0.38
North Carolina 0.34
Nebraska 0.30
Alabama 0.28
Montana 0.27
Iowa 0.27
Kansas 0.19
Idaho 0.17
Louisiana 0.12
Arkansas 0.09
Mississippi 0.09
South Dakota 0.00</p>