MCPS competitive college acceptance very poor

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Anonymous wrote:Name 5 things invented by a UVA grad in the last 100 years.

Name one thing invented by a UVA grad?..

Anybody ?

How is this relevant to the topic?

Enough already. We know UMD-CP is a good school.

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My son reported that there was much gloom in the halls of Churchill last week when the UMD decisions arrived. Many kids who had thought they would get in did not.

If you don't have 1350+ on your SATs, you're probably not getting in.

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Anonymous wrote:U.MD has the 9th highest SAT scores among public universities . It has more national championships and more Nobel, Academy Award, Emmy, Pulitzer, Fields Medal Alumni than any school in the ACC.

U.MD alumni invented :created/founded the following
Google, Oculus Rift, The Hybrid Engine, The Muppets, Seinfeld, The Wire, Sirius Satellite Radio, Underarmour, The implantable defribulator , the first large screen stadium television , Pulse Dopplar Radar, The first oral contraceptives, The Octane System, Linear Programming, the miniature insulin pump, early warning epilepsy device , The Universal Product Code ( the bar code), broke Watergate.

Crap .. U.MD grads even syndicated Baywatch, Founded Outback Steakhouse , wrote Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Apollo 13, created Boondocks and Liberty Meadows.

Not to mention Culture icons like Connie Chung, Boomer Esiason, Scott Van Pelt, Robyn Quivers, Gayle King, Juliana Rancik, Carl Bernstein, Dianne Weist, countless national news anchors and reporters.

U.MD alumni have had more impact on the economy, culture and everyday life in a massive way. I don't see anything close in any other public university in the East.

Not to mention it's located inside the nations capital beltway with soon to be 2 metro lines. It has installations of NOAA,FDA,Homeland Security, National Archives, NSA, NASA, Raytheon, American Physics Insitute on campus and a ten minute metro ride to the national mall. The FBI will be nearby as well. Unparalleled convenient internships.

Time to let go of the ACC dude. It's been 3 years since UMD joined the Big 10. You've got to compare to Michigan now.

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Anonymous wrote:U.MD has the 9th highest SAT scores among public universities . It has more national championships and more Nobel, Academy Award, Emmy, Pulitzer, Fields Medal Alumni than any school in the ACC.

U.MD alumni invented :created/founded the following
Google, Oculus Rift, The Hybrid Engine, The Muppets, Seinfeld, The Wire, Sirius Satellite Radio, Underarmour, The implantable defribulator , the first large screen stadium television , Pulse Dopplar Radar, The first oral contraceptives, The Octane System, Linear Programming, the miniature insulin pump, early warning epilepsy device , The Universal Product Code ( the bar code), broke Watergate.

Crap .. U.MD grads even syndicated Baywatch, Founded Outback Steakhouse , wrote Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Apollo 13, created Boondocks and Liberty Meadows.

Not to mention Culture icons like Connie Chung, Boomer Esiason, Scott Van Pelt, Robyn Quivers, Gayle King, Juliana Rancik, Carl Bernstein, Dianne Weist, countless national news anchors and reporters.

U.MD alumni have had more impact on the economy, culture and everyday life in a massive way. I don't see anything close in any other public university in the East.

Not to mention it's located inside the nations capital beltway with soon to be 2 metro lines. It has installations of NOAA,FDA,Homeland Security, National Archives, NSA, NASA, Raytheon, American Physics Insitute on campus and a ten minute metro ride to the national mall. The FBI will be nearby as well. Unparalleled convenient internships.

Time to let go of the ACC dude. It's been 3 years since UMD joined the Big 10. You've got to compare to Michigan now.

Go Blue...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son reported that there was much gloom in the halls of Churchill last week when the UMD decisions arrived. Many kids who had thought they would get in did not.

If you don't have 1350+ on your SATs, you're probably not getting in.

So HS has the average of accepted as 1268 (and even lower for Early). So is this because we are not Churchill so less competitive or just that it includes two years ago and goes us every year. I hope the former.

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U.MD. has probably passed UCLA for the 8th highest SAT scores this year

[Anonymous]

DD at a W school had several friends accepted to UMCP last year and their ACT scores ranged from high 20's to low 30's with good, but not stellar GPA's. Some even got into the scholars program. From this thread it sounds like things have changed this year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is going to magnet program at MCPS. Most of DCs peers want to get into medicine, law, engineering etc. While Ivies are affordable for some, most will choose UMD for their undergrad. They will get into top schools for graduate and other professional qualification after that. They will also get a full ride at UMD for their undergrad. These are smart kids who are looking closely at the majors rather than how the schools are ranked.

DC will graduate with upwards of 15 APs, great SAT and GPA, extra curricular activities, hundred of SSL hours. However if DC decides to go for ethnic studies at Harvard...I am not paying for anything.

Hi AP Frank's Mom!
Read The Overachievers or google if you don't get the reference here.

Totally get the reference and my DC's home high school is the lowest ranked HS in MCPS, so not a Whitman parent. Don't worry, not pushing DC into anything. Magnet was DC's idea not ours, and this crazy workload? DC is pretty much following what other kids are doing in the magnet program. I read that book and I call DC the "Stealth Overachiever" ...See? Totally got the reference. The school does not offer these APs that this kid has decided to do...AP in my opinion is a waste of time and effort, cause I believe that kids should do the college courses in college.

And I am also ok if my kid chooses Montgomery college. UMD and other instate colleges...I am all for it. If I was not the mother, I would have wondered where these genes came from. Seriously!

NP - what is the reference to??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD at a W school had several friends accepted to UMCP last year and their ACT scores ranged from high 20's to low 30's with good, but not stellar GPA's. Some even got into the scholars program. From this thread it sounds like things have changed this year.

Certain programs like Engineering and Comp Sci are harder to get into..might be the discrepancy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD at a W school had several friends accepted to UMCP last year and their ACT scores ranged from high 20's to low 30's with good, but not stellar GPA's. Some even got into the scholars program. From this thread it sounds like things have changed this year.

Most of this thread is 4 years old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is going to magnet program at MCPS. Most of DCs peers want to get into medicine, law, engineering etc. While Ivies are affordable for some, most will choose UMD for their undergrad. They will get into top schools for graduate and other professional qualification after that. They will also get a full ride at UMD for their undergrad. These are smart kids who are looking closely at the majors rather than how the schools are ranked.

DC will graduate with upwards of 15 APs, great SAT and GPA, extra curricular activities, hundred of SSL hours. However if DC decides to go for ethnic studies at Harvard...I am not paying for anything.

Hi AP Frank's Mom!
Read The Overachievers or google if you don't get the reference here.

Totally get the reference and my DC's home high school is the lowest ranked HS in MCPS, so not a Whitman parent. Don't worry, not pushing DC into anything. Magnet was DC's idea not ours, and this crazy workload? DC is pretty much following what other kids are doing in the magnet program. I read that book and I call DC the "Stealth Overachiever" ...See? Totally got the reference. The school does not offer these APs that this kid has decided to do...AP in my opinion is a waste of time and effort, cause I believe that kids should do the college courses in college.

And I am also ok if my kid chooses Montgomery college. UMD and other instate colleges...I am all for it. If I was not the mother, I would have wondered where these genes came from. Seriously!

NP - what is the reference to??

https://www.amazon.com/Overachievers-Secret-Lives-Driven-Kids/dp/140130902X

Author is a Whitman graduate and tracked a few different Whitman students through their Junior and Senior years. Interesting for others to get a read on how the "W" school mentality works to an extent. There is reference to a crazy expensive private college counselor who only takes the students that she knows will make it to an Ivy school. What was missing however was the fact that many parents pay thousands to professional essay writers or to Ivy-alums to prep students for alum interviews. Apart from that...it is like a Hollywood movie...except with very plain kids.