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Don’t forget to move kid in last year of HS to lowest performing school in county, sure way to get into any college.[/quote]
A nephew had this happen to him, unintentionally. His dad was transferred from the Philly Metro area to Kentucky when he was in HS. When he applied to Wharton, he was one of very few applicants applying from his state. Penn does some geographical balancing on applications, looking for students from all states – and this worked in his favor.
(Don’t get me wrong – he’s super smart, great grades… he might/probably would have gotten in applying from his previous high school – but the competition is much harder if all the local kids want to go to the top Ivy school in town. It was a slam dunk with his test scores/grades when he applied from Kentucky.)
