UMD from MoCo

[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.

[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?

No idea what you at talking about

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Thank you for providing the school report!

[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.

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

UMD submits the Naviance/Scattergrams data directly so at our Mcps high school, all UMD data is in Naviance before the surveys even go out.

[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?

Huh?

[Anonymous]

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

This is really interesting. It sounds like they are planning on offering study abroad in the fall for those enrolled in Freshman Connection.

[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?

I don't think this is the case. Some schools do and some don't report distribution. Grade inflation is so bad there is really no point in reporting grade distribution.