UMD and SAT scores for this year

[Anonymous]

My daughter got 1250 on the SAT. She’s on the fence about submitting score or going test optional. (For more info: She has a 4.15 GPA and is out of state.) What is her best choice here?

[Anonymous]

That would be well below the 25th percentile, correct? Then don't submit.

[Anonymous]

UMD is idiotic with test scores. Don’t submit.

[Anonymous]

UMD's latest CDS shows only 41% of enrollees submitted SAT scores (and 7% submitted ACT scores), with a 25/75 range of 1380-1510. Definitely don't submit a 1250. (I might have more nuanced advice if I trusted UMD's competence more and your DD's score were closer to their published range, but this isn't a call close enough for nuance to change the result.)

[Anonymous]

Don’t submit.

[Anonymous]

We were told UMD does not want to see SAT scores below 1380.

[Anonymous]

Our HS counselor said they want to see at least 1400 for out of state

[Anonymous]

How about a 1390 in-state?

[Anonymous]

UMD is going to shoot themselves in the foot next year when US News takes into account percent that submit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMD is going to shoot themselves in the foot next year when US News takes into account percent that submit

Oh, I didn’t know they were planning to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD is going to shoot themselves in the foot next year when US News takes into account percent that submit

Oh, I didn’t know they were planning to do this.

Yeah, that's one rando's wet dream

[Anonymous]

Standardized tests (5%): U.S. News factors median test scores for all enrollees who submitted scores used in the admission process for the mathematics and evidence-based reading and writing portions of the SAT and the composite ACT. Both SATs and ACTs were converted to their 0-100 test-taker percentile distributions and weighted based on the proportions of new entrants submitting each exam. For example, if a school had two-thirds of its test-takers submitting ACT scores and one-third submitting SAT scores, its ACT scores would weigh twice as heavily as its SAT scores toward this ranking factor.

For the third year, the following two-year approach to the methodology was in effect:

By default, we assessed schools on their fall 2023 SAT/ACT scores if they were reported on at least half their new entrants.
For schools not meeting the first condition, we assessed them on their fall 2022 SAT/ACT scores (scaled to fall 2022 percentile distributions) only if they were reported on at least half their fall 2022 new entrants.
For schools reporting SAT/ACT on less than 50% of both their fall 2023 and fall 2022 entering classes – including test-blind schools – we did not assess them on standardized tests at all. Instead, for those schools we increased the weight of graduation rates an additional five percentage points, from 16% to 21%. This substitute was chosen because it was the statistic from the rankings formula that correlated closest to standardized tests.
A change from previous editions was that schools with eligible SAT/ACT scores received slightly more credit when based on a higher proportion of students who submitted. For more information, see the article, "A More Detailed Look at the Ranking Factors."

[Anonymous]

*US News is signaling schools that are playing games by telling people not to submit are going to get hit harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were told UMD does not want to see SAT scores below 1380.

Did your guidance counselor say this or someone from UMD? My son has that same score and was going to submit. Ugh!

[Anonymous]

DD has a 1350 instate and is not planning to submit. Her scores don’t match her GPA or rigor.