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[quote=Anonymous]So much of the discussion I see happening here are anecdotes, so I wanted to see what the #s were based on hard data. These are the results from https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/ which tracks college acceptances across the top publics in Montgomery County. Stats for select public universities, ordering based on acceptance rate highest to lowest:

University of Maryland, College Park
32.4% acceptance rate, 43% yield

University of Wisconsin
26.4% acceptance rate, 30% yield

Berkeley
14.7% acceptance rate, 32% yield

UVA
12.5% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UMich
12.4% acceptance rate, 45% yield

UNC
11.6% acceptance rate, 24% yield

UCLA
11.3% acceptance rate, 28% yield

UT, Austin
7.8% acceptance rate, 33% yield

My thoughts here:
1) Didn't realize UMCP now has a 33% acceptance rate, even considering this is in-state!
2) Not surprised by low acceptance rates for UNC, UCLA, UT-Austin given their limit on out-of-state, but was surprised to see Berkeley's acceptance rate higher than UVA/UMich.
3) UVA's yield is very low, maybe this is a bias between going OOS to Virginia, when Maryland is the in-state school?
4) Michigan has a very high yield relative to other top publics, students really love this school apparently
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