College Acceptance/Matriculation Stats: NCS/STA, Holton/Landon

[Anonymous]

The U of Md Honors program also offers a great opportunity for a student to get a very specialized education at a much lower rate especially if you are a Md resident

http://www.honors.umd.edu/prospective.php

[Anonymous]

So how many of the Landon seniors attending UMd are in the honors program?

[Anonymous]

Kellen Miller, who is also a 1st team All Met Lacrosse player for Landon will be in UMD's honors program.

[Anonymous]

Right, but do you really need to pay 30k a year for tuition to go to U-MD? I guess it is the parents money, but it seems like most kids could go to their local public and have the same college options.

[Anonymous]

I have never looked at it like that and thankfully never will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never looked at it like that and thankfully never will.

Maybe you should start looking at it that way. If you are about to give us a sanctimonious lecture about how you send your kid to private school for the quality of the education, then you can't ignore that the UMD honors program has a terrific reputation. For providing a good education, that is.

Conversely, if all that matters to you is getting your kid into an Ivy, and that's why you're going private, then I remember a post from a year or so ago, from a mom whose Big 3 kid was rejected by the UMD honor's program. Private school is not a ticket to the Ivy League, and it's not even a ticket to UMD.

[Anonymous]

I agree with you, PP. I was talking about the poster expecting a certain placement for their tuition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how many of the Landon seniors attending UMd are in the honors program?

Sounds like 1 out of 6 seniors

[Anonymous]

Kellen Miller is also going to UMD on a lacrosse scholarship, maybe that is why he chose UMD vs other schools. Maybe he wanted to be closer to home? Who knows?

I don't know any of the other Landon seniors heading to UMD so I can not comment whether or not they are in the MD honors program or not.

[Anonymous]

Can someone tell me more about the UMd Honors program? It sounds very interesting. I just looked at the website, and it says all incoming freshmen are automatically considered for the program, just based on their application to UMd. I also see that there are about 3,000 Honors students on campus, out of about 27,000 undergrads. This suggests that about 10% of incoming freshmen are invited into the Honors program every year. Is that correct? Does anyone here have personal experience with the program, so you can tell us about it? TIA.

[Anonymous]

Some random UMD poster finds their way to every thread.

[Anonymous]

One thing I wonder about is the academic stats of the athletic recruits. From what I gather some of the Ivy recruits are not far below other admits (less than 100 points on the SAT) but I've heard of cases of people with only 1100 or 1200 SAT getting in, and not always in high-profile sports. It's embarrassing, for example, for Yale and Princeton to be letting in swimmers and runners or any other low profile athletes with these scores, considering nobody goes to their games/meets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing I wonder about is the academic stats of the athletic recruits. From what I gather some of the Ivy recruits are not far below other admits (less than 100 points on the SAT) but I've heard of cases of people with only 1100 or 1200 SAT getting in, and not always in high-profile sports. It's embarrassing, for example, for Yale and Princeton to be letting in swimmers and runners or any other low profile athletes with these scores, considering nobody goes to their games/meets.

Why? Why is it embarrassing? To whom? If a school decides to treat running like football, why is this a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

Hey 20:38
Do you mean 1200 out of 1600 or 1200 out of 2400? (SAT now has three sections)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing I wonder about is the academic stats of the athletic recruits. From what I gather some of the Ivy recruits are not far below other admits (less than 100 points on the SAT) but I've heard of cases of people with only 1100 or 1200 SAT getting in, and not always in high-profile sports. It's embarrassing, for example, for Yale and Princeton to be letting in swimmers and runners or any other low profile athletes with these scores, considering nobody goes to their games/meets.

Why? Why is it embarrassing? To whom? If a school decides to treat running like football, why is this a bad thing?

The schools want to win and coaches select the students with the best combination of athletics/academics for positional needs within each sport. I've seen parents plan admissions strategies usually involving crew .