UMD yet?
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Anonymous
NP. Interesting though, it looks like TJ sends 30+ kids there a year. My CS major also from FCPS (non-TJ) runs into them regularly. |
Anonymous
For some of these majors, like CS, none of these schools (except for MICHIGAN, which gives no money and costs 60,000 a year) are as good as UMD, or as cheap. Most CS kids of course apply to VT, Pitt etc…. But career wise, and money wise, UMD is better. |
Anonymous
Delusional. LOTS of magnet kids at UMD. Most graduate in three years or double a double/triple major- that is a lot of money saved and then they either go into the workforce or they go to grad school BEFORE any of their counterparts who went somewhere way more expensive. |
Anonymous
This is just incorrect, period. I have two high-stats kids (one from Blair magnet, 1600 SAT), one at our W home school. Both were admitted and attend/will attend. Older DS is a junior, younger DS was just admitted and will attend. Many families absolutely want UMD because it is excellent value: great education, affordable, nearby. |
Anonymous
Exactly! |
Anonymous
First you are accepted to UMD, second you are accepted to your major. You could be accepted to UMD and not accepted to CS - there is a very slim chance you will be allowed to transfer into CS. For business and Engineering you could be accepted to UMD and not the major - if you meet the gateway courses you can transfer in- however Business is a competitive LEP - still no guarantee you'll be accepted. Engineering - if you meet the gateway requirements you will be accepted to the major. |
Anonymous
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According to this MoCo has currently over 10k students at UMD, so I think this narrative of "our kids don't get in" is overblown. Clearly they do get in and go there. Perhaps they are trying to increase other counties to be more in line with the state? MoCo is about 17% of the state but seems to have about a third of the in state students.
https://reports.umd.edu/tableaupublic/1824 Naviance is self reported, so give the kids a minute to report it. |
Anonymous
Interesting chart. The 10k refers to both undergrad and grad students. If you click on "undergrad" it is 8811 from Montgomery--still a great many and the top county by far, but not as high as 10k. |
Anonymous
 For what major? What was the SAT like? unweighted GPA? What demographic?
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Anonymous
I hope that PHS SMCS kids do not take UMD as a safety. It has never been a safety, and they need to have the rigor, grades, SAT, ECs, to get into CS, Engineering. It really depends on their major. They need to apply to other CS adjacent majors. They can always do a double major. |
Anonymous
People drop out of CS and Engineering because they are not easy. So, you will be allowed to transfer to CS if you have the credentials. |
Anonymous
DP here. The "logic" is that their own kid is not magnet and they celebrate any setbacks any magnet kid suffers. |
Anonymous
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Maybe UMD has taken note of the "diluted" criteria of the magnet admissions by MCPS since a few years, and the "everyone's special" magnet crowd is now applying for college?
Still, I believe that the cream will always rise to the top. The best students who have worked hard for years will always get in. The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. The best students are not bleeding. |
Anonymous
That ^PP is on crack or something. UMD admits a lot of magnet students, not all, but a lot. My own MCPS magnet kid is there as a CS/math major, and they see several magnet kids there, too. They all also applied to the usual T10 for CS, and most were rejected. All high stats kids, my own included. UMD doesn't yield protect. |
Anonymous
Absolutely. My high-stat kid is from PHS SMCS. Another reason to select UMD was the network of peers that already existed for him comprising of the DMV high-stat kids - Blair, RMIB, Centennial, TJ etc who were competing with him at local, state, national and international arena for Robotics, Chess, Debate, Science and Math, swimming etc in HS. They are now his college classmates and dormmates. If a MoCo kid is going to UMD, he is not leaving a small town in the middle of USA to find his "tribe" in UMD. He is already with his "tribe". The benefit of UMD is that it also attracts a lot of students from East Coast and the rest of the world. So his network has only increased. Besides, the network of mentors that he had locally because of the internships, workshops and research he had done in HS, has allowed him to find other opportunities while in college. So, he has been interning since Freshman year during summer and research assistantship during the school year at the University. So, it is a win-win. |