Are there admissions quotas by region or state? What about by high school?
No, we do not have quotas of students we want per region or state. We judge students on the merits of their academic and extracurricular talents rather than where they reside (although we certainly want a geographically diverse student body). If we have more students from one state over another, it is simply because we receive more applications from that one state. For instance, we receive more applications from Illinois than from the combined states of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. It then makes sense that we have more enrolled students from Illinois than from those other states. The same holds true for high schools; we are not looking for a set number of students from a particular school. There are some schools from whom we receive many qualified applications. It then makes sense that more students from that school may be admitted in a given year. However, there is no guarantee that we will admit the same number of stu
