Bethesda Magazine College Bound Chart for 2020 grads

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

That’s good, because if you are considering the magnet programs for college admissions purposes, you are doing it wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat.

Naviaiance is not useful for any high scoring kid. Naviance told my kid they would likely get into every top 10 school...when clearly only a small fraction of kids with perfecgt GPAs and test scores get acceptances. That is regardless of what high school one attends.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat.

Naviaiance is not useful for any high scoring kid. Naviance told my kid they would likely get into every top 10 school...when clearly only a small fraction of kids with perfecgt GPAs and test scores get acceptances. That is regardless of what high school one attends.

Then you have no basis for thinking that the kids who opt out of applying to top 20 schools to go to UMD would have been anything other than another rejected kid.

It does point out that the perfect GPA is a red herring - not a useful thing to cite at all.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat.

Naviaiance is not useful for any high scoring kid. Naviance told my kid they would likely get into every top 10 school...when clearly only a small fraction of kids with perfecgt GPAs and test scores get acceptances. That is regardless of what high school one attends.

My kid opted for free tuition at UMD over full pay at a top 10. I doubt we are the only family who made similar choices.

Then you have no basis for thinking that the kids who opt out of applying to top 20 schools to go to UMD would have been anything other than another rejected kid.

It does point out that the perfect GPA is a red herring - not a useful thing to cite at all.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat.

Naviaiance is not useful for any high scoring kid. Naviance told my kid they would likely get into every top 10 school...when clearly only a small fraction of kids with perfecgt GPAs and test scores get acceptances. That is regardless of what high school one attends.

My kid opted for free tuition at UMD over full pay at a top 10. I doubt we are the only family who made similar choices.

My kid opted for free tuition at UMD over full pay at a top 10. I doubt we are the only family who made similar choices.

Then you have no basis for thinking that the kids who opt out of applying to top 20 schools to go to UMD would have been anything other than another rejected kid.

It does point out that the perfect GPA is a red herring - not a useful thing to cite at all.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat.

Naviaiance is not useful for any high scoring kid. Naviance told my kid they would likely get into every top 10 school...when clearly only a small fraction of kids with perfecgt GPAs and test scores get acceptances. That is regardless of what high school one attends.

My kid opted for free tuition at UMD over full pay at a top 10. I doubt we are the only family who made similar choices.

My kid opted for free tuition at UMD over full pay at a top 10. I doubt we are the only family who made similar choices.

Then you have no basis for thinking that the kids who opt out of applying to top 20 schools to go to UMD would have been anything other than another rejected kid.

It does point out that the perfect GPA is a red herring - not a useful thing to cite at all.

The stats are acceptance stats not attendance. So that situation is covered. What is alleged here is that students don’t even apply.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Discrimination against Asian college applicants.

+1 this is it. Many of the Asian Am. students from those magnets go to UMD, which is fine. It's competitive for majors like CS, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper.

Asia American students who don't go to magnets or have stellar grades/scores end up in the "not even considered" pile in most of the competitive schools because there are so many Asian American students with top scores/grades. They need something else about them that makes them stand out.

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I’m surprised no one applied to BYU as the temple is right there.

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Anonymous wrote:Very interesting. Calculated the acceptance rates for schools that are frequently mentioned or compared on DCUM. (Didn't do Ivy League. They ranged from about 5% to 15% for Cornell.)

Duke 8.7%
Northwestern 9.4%
Rice 16.7%
UVA 18.5%
UNC 18.7%
GA Tech 19.1%
Vanderbilt 19.9%
Amherst 20.0%
Carnegie Mellon 22.1%
UCLA 22.8%
WashU 23.1%
Emory 27.1%
Notre Dam 27.3%
UC Berkeley 27.5%
Georgetown 29.7%
Michigan 30.1%
NYU 33.0%
Williams 34.1%
W&M 43.1%
Wisconsin 50.7%
VA Tech 60.1%
UMD 64.1%
Pitt 71.1%
Penn St. 76.6%

Sure supports the Pitt, UMD, VA Tech and Penn St. as safety schools theme we often see here.

Very hard to get into UVA, UNC and GA Tech from Bethesda. Easier to get into Michigan, Berkeley and UCLA. And Vandy, Emory and WashU for that matter.

Wow, Montgomery County. Good luck getting into UVA! No wonder so many of you are bitter about the school. Your kids aren't getting in. Now we get it. But there's always Michigan, or Georgetown, or Emory. Your kids will be fine I'm sure.

Emory and Georgetown are better schools so I'm sure they will be.

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Anonymous wrote:The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted.

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat.

Naviaiance is not useful for any high scoring kid. Naviance told my kid they would likely get into every top 10 school...when clearly only a small fraction of kids with perfecgt GPAs and test scores get acceptances. That is regardless of what high school one attends.

Then you have no basis for thinking that the kids who opt out of applying to top 20 schools to go to UMD would have been anything other than another rejected kid.

It does point out that the perfect GPA is a red herring - not a useful thing to cite at all.

You seem to have convinced yourself that the magnet will not help your child get into an elite school, so go ahead and send them to your home school.

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I suspect there are errors in the stats. I was looking at my daughter’s HS. Somehow her stats were left out. With the more popular schools, I couldn’t tell. However she was accepted to two schools that weren’t reflected. One school
showed nobody had applied and one showed some
applicants but no acceptances.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.

UMD is clearly not elite. It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm. But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc. They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.

Update - UMD is competitive. This year's admit rate was 34.3%. When 2/3 of applicants are rejected, that's competitive. By comparison, the UVA in-state admit rate this year was 26.2%.

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I find it amusing that more Montgomery County students apply to Michigan than UVA. I think that says more about desirability than a lower acceptance rate.