Public University Stats from Bethesda Magazine, Interesting Results!

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I think this is self reported data so…

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is self reported data so…

This data was supplied by the Montgomery County Public Schools Office of Shared Accountability and high school counselors, based on self-reported information.

Better than noting and most sources since this is from counselors and a data office.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory is horrendous as is Georgetown on a relative basis. Hopkins and Cornell are underrated. I think Hopkins has the most number of applications and strongest yield.

Super interesting that both had higher acceptance rates than UVA/UMich..

Number of applications/ acceptance rate/ yield for popular private schools on DCUM:

Hopkins: 490/5.7%/79%
Penn: 490 / 6.3% / 58%
Cornell 400/10%/64%
Duke 363/6.9%/68%
Georgetown 275/17%/40%
Vandy 226/15%/59%
Emory 249/16.4%/24%

Where is that data from?

Link in first post: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/

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Anonymous wrote:So much of the discussion I see happening here are anecdotes, so I wanted to see what the #s were based on hard data. These are the results from https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/ which tracks college acceptances across the top publics in Montgomery County. Stats for select public universities, ordering based on acceptance rate highest to lowest:

University of Maryland, College Park
32.4% acceptance rate, 43% yield

University of Wisconsin
26.4% acceptance rate, 30% yield

Berkeley
14.7% acceptance rate, 32% yield

UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield

UNC
11.6% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UCLA
11.3% acceptance rate, 28% yield

UT, Austin
7.8% acceptance rate, 33% yield

My thoughts here:
1) Didn't realize UMCP now has a 33% acceptance rate, even considering this is in-state!
2) Not surprised by low acceptance rates for UNC, UCLA, UT-Austin given their limit on out-of-state, but was surprised to see Berkeley's acceptance rate higher than UVA/UMich.
3) UVA's yield is very low, maybe this is a bias between going OOS to Virginia, when Maryland is the in-state school?
4) Michigan has a very high yield relative to other top publics, students really love this school apparently

Georgia Tech
12.8% Acceptance Rate, 37% Yield.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale, only 4 acceptances, 3 of whom were athletes. So if your child goes high school in MoCo, don't bother applying to Yale.

The title was Public Universities.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is self reported data so…

This data was supplied by the Montgomery County Public Schools Office of Shared Accountability and high school counselors, based on self-reported information.

Better than noting and most sources since this is from counselors and a data office.

Yes, but if you know an individual school, you can spot certain errors. The results are based on surveys of the graduating seniors through Naviance, and some mistakes are inevitable. For example, my student applied to Pitt through Pitt's own app and did not require the school to do anything, and therefore that application and acceptance to Pitt was not recorded.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory is horrendous as is Georgetown on a relative basis. Hopkins and Cornell are underrated. I think Hopkins has the most number of applications and strongest yield.

Super interesting that both had higher acceptance rates than UVA/UMich..

Number of applications/ acceptance rate/ yield for popular private schools on DCUM:

Hopkins: 490/5.7%/79%
Penn: 490 / 6.3% / 58%
Cornell 400/10%/64%
Duke 363/6.9%/68%
Georgetown 275/17%/40%
Vandy 226/15%/59%
Emory 249/16.4%/24%

Where is that data from?

Link in first post: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/

That link only has public school data.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is self reported data so…

This data was supplied by the Montgomery County Public Schools Office of Shared Accountability and high school counselors, based on self-reported information.

Better than noting and most sources since this is from counselors and a data office.

If the schools cannot or don’t verify the data, this is junk.

[Anonymous]

To clarify: the Bethesda magazine tracks *Bethesda area publics* not “top publics.”

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Anonymous wrote:To clarify: the Bethesda magazine tracks *Bethesda area publics* not “top publics.”

Arlington Magazine did the same for Arlington public schools- September issue. They did very poorly with Ivies/Duke, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:To clarify: the Bethesda magazine tracks *Bethesda area publics* not “top publics.”

Bethesda area publics are the top publics for MCPS in case you weren't aware.

[Anonymous]

Interesting data about UMD. My kid's private school does much better with UMD, but most don't enroll. Acceptance rate was 57% last year.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield


“That’s because whatever stats this “magazine” uses is wrong. UVA’s yield is 40-45%. Google it.”

The pp was talking about the yield rate for only the top publics in Montgomery county so overall yield rates are not applicable here. Even with ED to help booster yield at UVA, Michigan’s yield rate was much higher.

It’s not UVAs overall yield. It’s the percentage of MOCO accepted students that went.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is self reported data so…

This data was supplied by the Montgomery County Public Schools Office of Shared Accountability and high school counselors, based on self-reported information.

Better than noting and most sources since this is from counselors and a data office.

Yes, but if you know an individual school, you can spot certain errors. The results are based on surveys of the graduating seniors through Naviance, and some mistakes are inevitable. For example, my student applied to Pitt through Pitt's own app and did not require the school to do anything, and therefore that application and acceptance to Pitt was not recorded.

Students usually go into Naviance at the end of the school year in one of their classes to update Naviance. The "applying to" data is not accurate because students who just have the school on their "I plan to apply" are counted as applying. So you need to track the historical data on Naviance, not from the current school year. Current year won't be accurate until students update it at the end with the results. There were schools on my son's "I plan to apply to" list that he didn't end up applying to at all. This has been discussed ad nauseum on other threads. But if a student doesn't come back and update then the student is not counted in the results scattergram.

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Anonymous wrote:So much of the discussion I see happening here are anecdotes, so I wanted to see what the #s were based on hard data. These are the results from https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/ which tracks college acceptances across the top publics in Montgomery County. Stats for select public universities, ordering based on acceptance rate highest to lowest:

University of Maryland, College Park
32.4% acceptance rate, 43% yield

University of Wisconsin
26.4% acceptance rate, 30% yield

Berkeley
14.7% acceptance rate, 32% yield

UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield

UNC
11.6% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UCLA
11.3% acceptance rate, 28% yield

UT, Austin
7.8% acceptance rate, 33% yield

My thoughts here:
1) Didn't realize UMCP now has a 33% acceptance rate, even considering this is in-state!
2) Not surprised by low acceptance rates for UNC, UCLA, UT-Austin given their limit on out-of-state, but was surprised to see Berkeley's acceptance rate higher than UVA/UMich.
3) UVA's yield is very low, maybe this is a bias between going OOS to Virginia, when Maryland is the in-state school?
4) Michigan has a very high yield relative to other top publics, students really love this school apparently

UMich is really popular with MoCo students. It is surprising, b/c like UVA it's $90K per year.

However, UVA doesn't have the same appeal among MoCo public school students. Maybe, people feel that UMD is just as good but 3x less expensive?