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Anonymous wrote:Current administration wants UMD to be like UCLA - a public ivy - so its only going to get more selective, well until the 2008 Financial cliff applications drop significantly and then they will have to re-consider how they get enough students to pay the bills.

What's this? You mean 2028 applicants?

Sorry, I somehow flubbed my earlier response. Let me try again. I'm not the PP, but I think they were referring to the 2008 market crash when the housing bubble burst and we all lost tons of money in the market/retirement.

The birth rate dropped as a result of the 2008 financial markets. So HS grad 2026, College class 2030 - there is a prediction that college application will have a steep drop off.

Ah. Now I get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

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Anonymous wrote:Current administration wants UMD to be like UCLA - a public ivy - so its only going to get more selective, well until the 2008 Financial cliff applications drop significantly and then they will have to re-consider how they get enough students to pay the bills.

What's this? You mean 2028 applicants?

Sorry, I somehow flubbed my earlier response. Let me try again. I'm not the PP, but I think they were referring to the 2008 market crash when the housing bubble burst and we all lost tons of money in the market/retirement.

The birth rate dropped as a result of the 2008 financial markets. So HS grad 2026, College class 2030 - there is a prediction that college application will have a steep drop off.

Ah. Now I get it.

We’ll that dropoff will increase with test optional. So I doubt we’ll see any numbers go down.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

What were her stats? Did she apply EA?

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

What were her stats? Did she apply EA?

Yes, applied EA, with profile similar to the high stats kid above.

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Does anyone know the breakdown of applicants/admissions by state residency?

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

Did she forget to fill out something? Or mistakenly deleted something? Is she sure her recommenders sent their letters?

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

1400 SAT is not high stats, I won’t be surprised by the reject.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

1400 SAT is not high stats, I won’t be surprised by the reject.

She said “high 1400”. That is definitely high stats for UMD.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

1400 SAT is not high stats, I won’t be surprised by the reject.

She said “high 1400”. That is definitely high stats for UMD.

75th percentile for SAT at UMD was 1510, according to the most recent data. 25th percentile was 1330.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

1400 SAT is not high stats, I won’t be surprised by the reject.

She said “high 1400”. That is definitely high stats for UMD.

75th percentile for SAT at UMD was 1510, according to the most recent data. 25th percentile was 1330.

Well, there you go.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

Not one student among the hundreds at our school was rejected with a mid-high 1400s or higher and 4.5 or higher. None. What are other people seeing? Something seems off. That said, six APs might be low for rigor.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications

I don’t understand how this individual did not get into UMD? What is going on?

Several possibilities:

1. Did not take AP exams or report 5s and 4s. For a high stats kid, admissions officers are going to wonder about their absence.

2. Note that MCPS weighs Honors the same as APs in the GPA, unlike some other school systems. Which means MCPS GPA can be inflated and all the colleges recalculate it - but perhaps for PP's kid with 11 APs, that's moot.

3. The personal statement did not show a clear direction and failed to directly reference UMD. Essays are VERY important for mid-level 30-50% acceptance rate colleges, most of which do "holistic" admissions and seek a diversity of student voices. They are deathly afraid of the high stats kid with a generic essay, because they immediately think "yield protection, this kid wants to go elsewhere". Make the college think they are your top choice, always. The Common App allows for a customize personal statement. Save your general statement elsewhere, then tweak it for each college before hitting submit.

Unless it’s new this year, UMD does not yield protect. Look at Scattergrams. I would guess one of the following: the parent meant they were not accepted into a competitive program (but still admitted to university), that the student completely blew off the sentences, there was something unseemly or incomplete in the application, that student intentionally tanked application, that it’s a troll, that student had a disciplinary action, or the LORs were bad.

99.99% of high stat kids are accepted

You people are completely off base with this. My high stats kid was rejected from UMD for class of 2026, no spring admit. There was nothing wrong with her at all. I have every reason to believe her LOR were strong. I have no idea why the rejection, other than MoCo resident. It happens.

We’re looking at Scattergrams and know this is incredibly unlikely. Our MCPS school just loaded the new data for this year. For UMD it’s an automated upload of data. Are you the ACT 34 parent from above with strong GPA? Out of over a thousand applicants in past five years, there’s one rejection of a truly high stats kid who took the ACT. A couple with very good stats (low 30s) who are outlier rejections. What school and is the weighted gpa above 4.5? Did your DC take at least 6 AP or IB classes?

No I'm not. My daughter did not take the ACT but got a high 1400 SAT. She was not in MCPS. wgpa 4.5 with 6 AP. I can view scattergrams too. She's a red x in the midst of green checks.

1400 SAT is not high stats, I won’t be surprised by the reject.

She said “high 1400”. That is definitely high stats for UMD.

75th percentile for SAT at UMD was 1510, according to the most recent data. 25th percentile was 1330.

Well, there you go.

It’s surprising she wasn’t admitted.