<p>Most people are biased towards schools in their own region anyway, so it should be balanced out. West Coasters who want to stay in the west are counteracted by East coasters who want to stay east. State schools have a vast majority of in-state students, but that’s counteracted by the fact that practically no one out-of-state is in those schools. The nature of the ranking automatically takes regional biases into account, so what we get is an overall national average of cross-admit students’ preferences.</p>