<p>I have wondered if Harvard tends to apportion fewer offers to areas where their yield is lower. NC is the tenth most populous state in the country and it ranks towards the bottom of Sherpa’s list. It is not like NC lacks for educated parents (Research Triangle Park anyone?) to foster the environment that leads one to aspire to elite schools. My daughter is the first student admitted to H from her HS in many years. Her class includes three others now attending ivies, one at Cambridge and two that are at Duke on full merit scholarships. Recent classes have also sent students to the other YPSM schools in addition to the above. I do not have any data, but have suspected that NC gets fewer offers because H assumes that they will lose too many cross admits to Duke (and to a much lesser degree to Morehead Scholars at UNC-CH).</p>