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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://moco360.media/2022/09/13/here-are-the-colleges-where-bethesda-area-high-school-grads-applied-got-accepted-and-enrolled/

I'm not usually a fan of putting stock in where other people report their kids got into college but you can get a sense here, especially when you look at numbers for RMIB and Blair, about where kids are applying in droves and where they're not getting in

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Thanks PP, I've seen this and it is somewhat helpful.

But if you accept the premise that the IB magnet program is a separate cohort, this doesn't offer much insight to the question asked.  [/quote]

They aren't a separate cohort, they can present with the same profile as any other MCPS kid applying to UMD, so certainly not immune from rejection.[/quote]

UMDCP can't fill their entire class with Blair students. At some point, maybe especially from a school with that many strong applicants, it's a lottery. Not personal. Not a reflection of your kid. At all. Just a lottery.

There's a few ways to handle those odds.

1.) Not play.
2.) Play and accept the odds. Your kid has already beat odds so many times just getting into their magnet in the first place.
3.) Try to move metrics in your favor: apply to a different program, apply to MC to do two years there first, transfer in from Baltimore or St Mary's. 
4.) And finally, consider the major and what, specifically, your kid wants from it. Think of ways outside the box to achieve these goals. UMDCP may have been a direct path, but it's far from the only path.[/quote]

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