Regional Quotas for Harvard?

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<p>Idiosyncrac3y (Canadian Boy) says

I am just saying that there are other reasons as to why the number (or per capita rate) of MA students is higher at Harvard. Your reasoning that it is due to bias from the adcoms while perhaps (I would say probably) has some truth, it almost certainly does not account for the 3-1 bias the numbers show. This is due to another bias (and the one that I alluded to) - the sampling bias. You have not mentioned that anywhere…

if you are smart enough to apply to harvard, you would’ve known to read the numbers in context… the Census figures, without breakdown of demographics by age etc. is a poor and inaccurate way to use instead of the highschool student population. But having no access to these numbers w/o wasting more time, the census figures were used as a rough measure and the numbers should be read as such.</p>

<p>As siserune presented effectively in 2009, in this thread
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/715657-what-high-school-communities-does-harvard-favor.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/715657-what-high-school-communities-does-harvard-favor.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>this statement by the admissions dean seem to explain largely why the MA and NE states are overrepresented in the Harvard class.

Originally Posted by Harvard admissions dean William Fitzsimmons interviewed in Boston Globe
**First and foremost, Harvard will always be a Massachusetts and New England institution. We work extremely hard on our recruiting and outreach in Massachusetts and New England because we feel it is vital for Harvard to play an important role in educating the future leaders from the place that has done so much to shape its mission. We have always had a policy of admitting a Boston or Cambridge student over others when the credentials are approximately equal.</p>

<p>In the same way, we pay special attention to students from Massachusetts and the rest of New England.**

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