<p>Does Columbia, as well as other top Ivies, put much emphasis on where you’re from?</p>
<p>Don’t know too much about this, but you may be evaluated differently depending on where you’re from. If you’re from a state that typically sends many well-qualified applicants, you may have to be a little more “special” to stand out - whereas if you’re from a proverbial flyover state, it may be a little easier to make yourself known.</p>
<p>International, of course, there’s the finaid issue.</p>
<p>Hopefully you get a more satisfying answer, heh.</p>
<p>Haha. No, I agree with your opinions. It’s all a bit curious, isn’t it? What goes on in the mysterious rooms of admissions committees.</p>
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<p>One of my soccer coaches who knows a lot about college told me something interesting about Columbia. He said they have a strange quota for each geographical location. Don’t know what those quotas are and it’s probably all wrong but interesting nonetheless.</p>
<p>I’m from a small town in ND. I want nothing more than to live in Manhattan, though.</p>
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<p>I think if you are from ND and you have Columbia stats, you have a better chance than applicants from many other states. Columbia has over 35,000 applicants, they will have no trouble getting freshman from all fifty states. Many of those applicants come from the large states, NE and the mid-Atlantics, however.</p>