Bethesda Magazine College Bound Chart for 2020 grads

[Anonymous]

Published Oct 5

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/september-october-2020/college-bound-5/

[Anonymous]

Very interesting. Calculated the acceptance rates for schools that are frequently mentioned or compared on DCUM. (Didn't do Ivy League. They ranged from about 5% to 15% for Cornell.)

Duke 8.7%
Northwestern 9.4%
Rice 16.7%
UVA 18.5%
UNC 18.7%
GA Tech 19.1%
Vanderbilt 19.9%
Amherst 20.0%
Carnegie Mellon 22.1%
UCLA 22.8%
WashU 23.1%
Emory 27.1%
Notre Dam 27.3%
UC Berkeley 27.5%
Georgetown 29.7%
Michigan 30.1%
NYU 33.0%
Williams 34.1%
W&M 43.1%
Wisconsin 50.7%
VA Tech 60.1%
UMD 64.1%
Pitt 71.1%
Penn St. 76.6%

Sure supports the Pitt, UMD, VA Tech and Penn St. as safety schools theme we often see here.

Very hard to get into UVA, UNC and GA Tech from Bethesda. Easier to get into Michigan, Berkeley and UCLA. And Vandy, Emory and WashU for that matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting. Calculated the acceptance rates for schools that are frequently mentioned or compared on DCUM. (Didn't do Ivy League. They ranged from about 5% to 15% for Cornell.)

Duke 8.7%
Northwestern 9.4%
Rice 16.7%
UVA 18.5%
UNC 18.7%
GA Tech 19.1%
Vanderbilt 19.9%
Amherst 20.0%
Carnegie Mellon 22.1%
UCLA 22.8%
WashU 23.1%
Emory 27.1%
Notre Dam 27.3%
UC Berkeley 27.5%
Georgetown 29.7%
Michigan 30.1%
NYU 33.0%
Williams 34.1%
W&M 43.1%
Wisconsin 50.7%
VA Tech 60.1%
UMD 64.1%
Pitt 71.1%
Penn St. 76.6%

Sure supports the Pitt, UMD, VA Tech and Penn St. as safety schools theme we often see here.

Very hard to get into UVA, UNC and GA Tech from Bethesda. Easier to get into Michigan, Berkeley and UCLA. And Vandy, Emory and WashU for that matter.

Surprised to see UMD acceptance rate that high. But these are some of the strongest high schools in the state. And everybody is getting into Pitt.

[Anonymous]

Here are the schools with the most applicants:

UMD 2165
UMBC 745
Penn St. 598
Towson 579
Michigan 512
Pitt 495
UVA 448
MCC 445
Penn 410
VA Tech 371
UNC 358
Johns Hopkins 350

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are the schools with the most applicants:

UMD 2165
UMBC 745
Penn St. 598
Towson 579
Michigan 512
Pitt 495
UVA 448
MCC 445
Penn 410
VA Tech 371
UNC 358
Johns Hopkins 350

You missed Cornell 376

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are the schools with the most applicants:

UMD 2165
UMBC 745
Penn St. 598
Towson 579
Michigan 512
Pitt 495
UVA 448
MCC 445
Penn 410
VA Tech 371
UNC 358
Johns Hopkins 350

You missed Cornell 376

Good eye! Thank you.

[Anonymous]

RMIB consistently getting more into Ivy League than Whitman.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if Pitt will ever move from being a safety to a target for kids. It’s not much bigger than UVA, so it wouldn’t be impossible to get more selective.

[Anonymous]

Thanks - these are really interesting to compare against the general admit rate for the school. Anecdotal bz just one class, but still interesting to see how our region/schools might influence admissions.

[Anonymous]

Here are the top 10 most popular schools to apply to based upon number of applications received:

1. University of Maryland College Park - 2165
2. University of Maryland Baltimore County - 745
3. Penn State - 598
4. Towson - 579
5. University of Michigan - 512
6. University of Pittsburgh - 495
7. University of Virginia - 448
8. Montgomery College - 445
9. University of Pennsylvania - 410
10. Cornell - 376

Of Ivy League or highly competitive schools, here is the order of the most applications. Stanford appears to be the hardest to get into.

1. Cornell - 376 / 58 accepted
2. Princeton - 273 / 11 accepted
3. Columbia - 273 / 18 accepted
4. Brown - 273 / 18 accepted
5. Stanford - 260 / 8 accepted
6. Yale - 260 / 16 accepted
7. Harvard - 227 / 12 accepted
8. Univ of Chicago - 198 / 21 accepted
9. MIT - 182 / 14 accepted
10. Dartmouth - 114 / 13 accepted

[Anonymous]

Much better than the Arlington statistics.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Much better than the Arlington statistics.

Link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting. Calculated the acceptance rates for schools that are frequently mentioned or compared on DCUM. (Didn't do Ivy League. They ranged from about 5% to 15% for Cornell.)

Duke 8.7%
Northwestern 9.4%
Rice 16.7%
UVA 18.5%
UNC 18.7%
GA Tech 19.1%
Vanderbilt 19.9%
Amherst 20.0%
Carnegie Mellon 22.1%
UCLA 22.8%
WashU 23.1%
Emory 27.1%
Notre Dam 27.3%
UC Berkeley 27.5%
Georgetown 29.7%
Michigan 30.1%
NYU 33.0%
Williams 34.1%
W&M 43.1%
Wisconsin 50.7%
VA Tech 60.1%
UMD 64.1%
Pitt 71.1%
Penn St. 76.6%

Sure supports the Pitt, UMD, VA Tech and Penn St. as safety schools theme we often see here.

Very hard to get into UVA, UNC and GA Tech from Bethesda. Easier to get into Michigan, Berkeley and UCLA. And Vandy, Emory and WashU for that matter.

Wow, Montgomery County. Good luck getting into UVA! No wonder so many of you are bitter about the school. Your kids aren't getting in. Now we get it. But there's always Michigan, or Georgetown, or Emory. Your kids will be fine I'm sure.