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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yes, it can be with an over 50% acceptance rate for instate[/quote]

Interesting article from Wootton this year:

"When examining the admitted students’ data, Macdonald noticed that there was less of a clear GPA cut-off, whereas last year’s admitted students had a rough cut-off of 4.68 weighted, barring exceptions. “Last year, most of the students who received a GPA above around 4.7. got in, and if you fell below that, you likely didn’t get in; this year, there’s no clear number. This year, we definitely have kids with very high GPAs who did not get on. Legitimate 4.0s did not get in,” Macdonald said.

Based on this trend, Macdonald deduced that UMD likely weighed the student’s course load more heavily this year alongside GPA. “If I had to guess, and this is purely speculative, is that the level of rigor needs to be high enough, like rigor in terms of what classes are you choosing and how well are you doing in them and if you are declaring a major, how well do they accentuate that major,” Macdonald said."

https://woottoncommonsense.com/23388/news/umd-rejects-over-half-of-applicants-early-action/[/quote]

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