<p>Don’t colleges have lenience to people from certain states as opposed to other states? For example, if Harvard had to pick between a student from Nebraska and a student from California (and both students had the same stats and course rigor), wouldn’t Harvard choose the student from Nebraska to add to the state-diversity? I don’t know if this is true but I heard this somewhere. If this is true, what are the states which fit this?</p>
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