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[quote=Anonymous]My Walter Johnson Asian son was accepted early action in an Honors program at UMD, for a Humanities major, without any APs in science (but he did go to AP Calc BC for math), and a concentration in APs for social sciences, and 3 languages, English, French and Latin. He had a 35 out of 36 on his ACT. His GPA at the time of application was 4.67 (and then it went down dramatically because he had a breakdown in the second semester!).

UMD swears they don't look at major interest when accepting students. I find that hard to believe, because it seems to me there are a lot more students interested in STEM than anything else at UMD. I thought that perhaps they were intrigued by an Asian male wanting Humanities, and one who had taken Latin to boot?

But the most important thing for UMD, in my humble opinion, is your kid's GPA and SAT/ACT test scores. They are that kind of school. The bar is high for an MCPS graduate to begin with, because they get a ton of applicants from that school system.

So if your kid doesn't want to go to AP level in the social sciences and languages, he really needs a near perfect score on his SAT/ACT, to make up for not challenging himself with the hardest courses available at his high school in those topics.

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