UMD yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a safety school for corrupt officials as well. If people get fired for contributing to sexual and professional harassment like the recent UMD admin dei hire, they will have a back up job here to make 6 figs. Even if they extracted millions of tax payer dollars out of their schemes. It happened and UMD does not worry about corruption. Probably because they make too much money being corrupt.

Okay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

lesson learned

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

Well the word is out and parents need to keep this in mind when deciding whether to accept a magnet invite. If the plan is UMD or bust, the home school might be more strategic.

+1 Unless you're confident your kid will be in the top 10% or so in a magnet class, college admissions will almost always have better outcomes at the home schools these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

Well the word is out and parents need to keep this in mind when deciding whether to accept a magnet invite. If the plan is UMD or bust, the home school might be more strategic.

+1 Unless you're confident your kid will be in the top 10% or so in a magnet class, college admissions will almost always have better outcomes at the home schools these days.

Not just magnet. W schools have the same issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

Well the word is out and parents need to keep this in mind when deciding whether to accept a magnet invite. If the plan is UMD or bust, the home school might be more strategic.

+1 Unless you're confident your kid will be in the top 10% or so in a magnet class, college admissions will almost always have better outcomes at the home schools these days.

Not just magnet. W schools have the same issue.

ugh!

[Anonymous]

Naviance has loaded the acceptance numbers for UMD; at our W the acceptance rate is lower than last year

[Anonymous]

What is a W school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is a W school?

W school in Montgomery County are the wealthy schools with a W in the name: Walt Whitman, Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson, and Wootton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Naviance has loaded the acceptance numbers for UMD; at our W the acceptance rate is lower than last year

At my child's school, the students go in and update Naviance. Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but maybe not everyone has updated to say that they were admitted yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

lesson learned

that just isn’t right! punished for rigor & excellence, essentially

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Naviance has loaded the acceptance numbers for UMD; at our W the acceptance rate is lower than last year

At my child's school, the students go in and update Naviance. Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but maybe not everyone has updated to say that they were admitted yet.

yeah same here - only around 20 out of 390 - can't be an automatic load - that's an Ivy level rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's really no value in saying "10 APs" or "8 APs" without the grades for those and the exam result.

I suspect these kids are getting A's in the class but only 3's or worse in the exam. Which shows bad grade elevation and is unlikely to impress AO's.

You’re quoting my kid’s stats. She got As in all the APs and 4/5s on the exams - submitted. No 3s. Sorry that doesn’t fit your narrative.

Your sour grapes are noted.

DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure ANY school with a 45% acceptance rate can be classified as a safety regardless of major. We looked at it as a target/match.

Even moreso for limited enrollment programs like CS, engineering and business. Acceptance rate is much lower for those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Naviance has loaded the acceptance numbers for UMD; at our W the acceptance rate is lower than last year

At my child's school, the students go in and update Naviance. Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but maybe not everyone has updated to say that they were admitted yet.

It is pretty quick for 119 students to report their acceptance. Seems automatic to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

It was their choice to attend the high school they did. We don't have as many magnet programs in my county, so why should my kid be punished for that?