UMD from MoCo

[Anonymous]

Our W school doesn’t include class rank or GPA distribution on the school report. I thought all MCPS schools had the same policy regarding reporting to colleges. No?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our W school doesn’t include class rank or GPA distribution on the school report. I thought all MCPS schools had the same policy regarding reporting to colleges. No?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/wjhs/uploadedfiles/counseling/wj-profile-2023--2024.pdf
GRADE DISTRIBUTION – CLASS OF 2023
Distribution of Grade Point Averages
Montgomery County Public Schools does not rank students

Range Unweighted GPA Weighted GPA
4.51 & Above 0% 28%
4.01 - 4.50 0% 30%
3.51 - 4.00 55% 20%
3.01 - 3.50 25% 10%
2.51 - 3.00 11% 7%
2.01 - 2.50 6% 4%
1.51 - 2.00 2% 2%
1.01 - 1.50 0% 0%

[Anonymous]

Our school doesn’t report GPA distribution or class rank either. Wish it did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:53% of Whitman students who applied got in last year, according to Naviance.

Are you able to see what the acceptance rate for Walter Johnson was?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our W school doesn’t include class rank or GPA distribution on the school report. I thought all MCPS schools had the same policy regarding reporting to colleges. No?

Where can one find the school report for our high school. My child goes to poolesville high school, I am unable to find the school report online. Is there a special website for this?

[Anonymous]

I found this podcast very helpful: https://youtu.be/rEruin1Y5hA?si=BgYBXj3wfqmGAkNJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our W school doesn’t include class rank or GPA distribution on the school report. I thought all MCPS schools had the same policy regarding reporting to colleges. No?

Where can one find the school report for our high school. My child goes to poolesville high school, I am unable to find the school report online. Is there a special website for this?

Our school has a section of the website dedicated to counseling with resources for seniors including checklists, transcript request forms, and the school profile that is shared with colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our W school doesn’t include class rank or GPA distribution on the school report. I thought all MCPS schools had the same policy regarding reporting to colleges. No?

Where can one find the school report for our high school. My child goes to poolesville high school, I am unable to find the school report online. Is there a special website for this?

Poolesville school profile is here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s2UB5tc1N2738UTgElCG4CckzbuaC4Qi/view

This will be submitted with college applications. This does not do the kids any favors since the kids in magnet program with 4.0 UW look like the are only in the top 81% of their class. Weighted GPA no better.

Crazy that schools are doing this differently with respect to GPA distributions.

[Anonymous]

My kid is at QO and the Naviance for class of 2024 is a real mess. Seems many acceptances not entered properly. Or it was a bloodbath with only 38/222 accepted in 2024 compared to 123/254 in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at QO and the Naviance for class of 2024 is a real mess. Seems many acceptances not entered properly. Or it was a bloodbath with only 38/222 accepted in 2024 compared to 123/254 in 2023.

i think counselor usually reached out to all students to update - maybe your councelor forgot to ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:53% of Whitman students who applied got in last year, according to Naviance.

Are you able to see what the acceptance rate for Walter Johnson was?

This is on Naviance. Ask your kid about logging in and you can look at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at QO and the Naviance for class of 2024 is a real mess. Seems many acceptances not entered properly. Or it was a bloodbath with only 38/222 accepted in 2024 compared to 123/254 in 2023.

Are you THE bloodbath poster?

[Anonymous]

We are not in MoCo yet wanted to say that I agree with others that rank probably matters.

Not long ago, I knew of four valedictorians (two public schools and two Catholic schools) attending UMD with a scholarship. UMD awards merit to students who are Ivy level in the hopes they scoop some of them up with free or nearly free tuition.

My oldest kid's school doesn't rank, but they gave out an award to the top 12 students. That's how I know that my kid was between 3 and 12 in their class.

About 4-5 students from the top 12 attended UMD, and #1 and #2 attended UMD.

A student at UMD will have more Ivy level students to hang with than at an Ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at QO and the Naviance for class of 2024 is a real mess. Seems many acceptances not entered properly. Or it was a bloodbath with only 38/222 accepted in 2024 compared to 123/254 in 2023.

Are you THE bloodbath poster?

OMG. It IS the bloodbath poster. haha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our W school doesn’t include class rank or GPA distribution on the school report. I thought all MCPS schools had the same policy regarding reporting to colleges. No?

Blair reports GPA distribution and includes a separate school report for magnet students.