List down your safeties

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, I know two kids with 4.6+ weighted GPAs from MCPS who were rejected from UMD this cycle. Luckily they weren’t assuming it was a safety for them.

UMD is no longer a safety for 80% of students at MCPS.

But they accept 50% in MCPS

not a mcps; maybe the W schools in Bethesda magazine

[Anonymous]

all mcps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt
Macalester
Oberlin

What kind of stats to consider those as safeties?

[Anonymous]

U of Arizona (which has a published guaranteed admit if you meet certain stats so can be a true safety if you have the numbers)—generous aid package

Pitt — applied late in the rolling and got in ED at different school so withdrew

Very unclear if UMd was a safety or not! We didn’t consider it to be (even tho my kid had high stats and great EC) which is why we did Arizona and Pitt.

I’m reading this thread with interest as I have another kid coming up that won’t have as high stats and all the stories about rejections from UmD just makes me really nervous about where they will land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, I know two kids with 4.6+ weighted GPAs from MCPS who were rejected from UMD this cycle. Luckily they weren’t assuming it was a safety for them.

UMD is no longer a safety for 80% of students at MCPS.

But they accept 50% in MCPS

not a mcps; maybe the W schools in Bethesda magazine

+1

For high stats kids at high achieving schools, admit rate is 50%, but those schools are not the majority in MCPS.

You can see the stats here: admitted/accepted by HS (grain of salt, these numbers are self reported)

https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

Then compare with last year's enrollment numbers for each HS

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/glance/index.aspx

Example:

BCC accepted 149
BCC HS seniors 586
Admitted 25%

Whitman accepted 243
Whtiman HS seniors 474
Admitted 51%

Einstein accepted 77
Einstein HS seniors 389
Admitted 20%