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<p>Go engineers! Wooooooo!</p>
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<p>I’d love to know if this is true, but I can’t think of a reason it would be. Perhaps it’s simply that grad schools get more applicants from nearby candidates, so it just seems as though their acceptance rate is higher. Grad schools, like companies, want to “hire” the best candidates, and since the school is not paying for relocation, there doesn’t seem to be an incentive to select locals. In fact, doing so would tend to limit the diversity of the student body.</p>