@f2000sa I’m not sure Massachusetts can really be equated with California, which is much larger in both size and number of students. It would be interesting to see what Harvard’s percentage is from, say, all of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, and Virginia, all lumped together. That would seem to be a more fair comparison. I don’t think Stanford is unfair to out-of-state students; like other top-tier schools, it seeks a diverse student body, which includes geographic diversity. In fact, at the convocation ceremony just a few days ago, one of the speakers mentioned, with chagrin, that there were no students from North Dakota in this year’s entering class.