Move to Alabama?

Quartz reports.

If you want to get into an elite college, you might consider moving to one of these states

Springtime in the US means college admissions season. Elite schools are unveiling the chosen few who will make up their newly admitted class, with many noting successful applicants from all 50 states.

That nod to geographic diversity may sound like a casual detail, but it’s not. With elite private schools accepting increasingly smaller percentages of a growing and well-groomed talent pool, a student’s home state can be the deciding factor between who is in and who’s out.

“Every school likes to be able to stick that little pin on the map and say they have kids from all 50 states,” said Andrea van Niekerk, a college admissions consultant and former associate director of admissions at Brown University. “If you’ve got two kids and one is from this wacky place—not that Wyoming is a wacky place—that might be the factor.”