Bethesda Magazine College Bound Chart for 2020 grads

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Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.

UMD is clearly not elite. It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm. But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc. They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.

Please stop.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.

UMD is clearly not elite. It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm. But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc. They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.

Please stop.

Look at stats for engineering or comp sci. A whole different world.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.

UMD is clearly not elite. It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm. But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc. They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.

Please stop.

Look at stats for engineering or comp sci. A whole different world.

+1 It's tough to get in for CS/engineering majors.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

There is a big gap between what is defined as moderate income and the ability for a family to afford 70k in tuition. We are a 200K HHI family offered no aid from Ivies with two kids being in college (one with some merit aid). Took UMDs honors program/merit aid instead for Blair magnet kid. Perhaps we should not have saved anything.

“From Ivies”? Or from Harvard, Yale and/or Princeton? They’re not at all the same when it comes to waiving tuition for accepted students

Princeton currently gives free tuition to families with a HHI of under 65K...that is pretty moderate for DC area families.

? No, that's low income here.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.

UMD is clearly not elite. It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm. But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc. They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.

Please stop.

Look at stats for engineering or comp sci. A whole different world.

+1 It's tough to get in for CS/engineering majors.

as well as the Business school (Accting, Finance, Mrkting, IS,....etc), Journalism school, essentially any of the Limited Enrollment Programs.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Cute story. But even here in the back of the class I can see that the stats don’t support your argument.

57 kids from Blair applied and 2 were accepted at MIT.

26 and 3 for Wootton and 17 and 3 for Walter Johnson.

It’s not that they weren’t applying - they didn’t get in.

Would you like to try again?

MIT does not take more than a few from a particular school regardless of how many apply. Everyone knows getting in to top schools from Blair and RMIB is really hard because of the competition.

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They took 11 kids from Blair two yearsA ago, so, please, try again.

Yes last year was highly unusual for Blair. The graduating class from blair was similar to prior years (40% were NMSFs for instance). Perhaps MIT has changed its admission policy to cap admits from one school or is prioritizing non academic activities.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.

UMD is clearly not elite. It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm. But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc. They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.

It depends on how you define "elite". If your definition is based on excluding the most people, then probably not. If it is based on what happens there, then UMD has a lot to be proud of.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yep - only have to look at the number of NMSF from Blair to know that's true.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

But full price for the Double-income professionals who are parents of many of the Blair kids.

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No, actually that has nothing to do with anything. No slight to Blair, but PP is not making sense.

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So as someone looking to potentially buy in MoCo for a kid in elementary, what's the takeaway from this article, in your opinions? Assuming for argument's sake that she won't have grades to get into a magnet program. Which catchment to pick?

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Anonymous wrote:So as someone looking to potentially buy in MoCo for a kid in elementary, what's the takeaway from this article, in your opinions? Assuming for argument's sake that she won't have grades to get into a magnet program. Which catchment to pick?

I would not have any takeaways from this in relation to where to buy a house. Find a neighborhood you would like to live in, that gives you a convenient commute, within your price range.

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Anonymous wrote:So as someone looking to potentially buy in MoCo for a kid in elementary, what's the takeaway from this article, in your opinions? Assuming for argument's sake that she won't have grades to get into a magnet program. Which catchment to pick?

I would not have any takeaways from this in relation to where to buy a house. Find a neighborhood you would like to live in, that gives you a convenient commute, within your price range.

And start putting money into a 529. Today.

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Anonymous wrote:So as someone looking to potentially buy in MoCo for a kid in elementary, what's the takeaway from this article, in your opinions? Assuming for argument's sake that she won't have grades to get into a magnet program. Which catchment to pick?

The takeaway should be that buying a house based on potential college admissions a decade or more down the line is literally absurd. Not to mention, if she doesn’t have the grades for a magnet program...will she really be a strong contender for a highly selective U?

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Anonymous wrote:So as someone looking to potentially buy in MoCo for a kid in elementary, what's the takeaway from this article, in your opinions? Assuming for argument's sake that she won't have grades to get into a magnet program. Which catchment to pick?

I would not have any takeaways from this in relation to where to buy a house. Find a neighborhood you would like to live in, that gives you a convenient commute, within your price range.

+1 Everyone needs to take these stats with a grain of salt. These are self reported acceptances from the students.