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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:58 - Keep in mind that the CAP list indicates the schools students chose to attend, not where they were accepted.  There are many kids who were accepted into bigger name schools than UM but they or their families could not justify paying full private school tuition.  As a result UM got exceptional kids from CAP, magnet,and the rest of Blair.  That is both good for UM and the parent who don't want their student's to be in debt when they graduate.[/quote]

This. There is a difference between acceptance rates and matriculation rates.

Bear in mind also that the ivies (I assume OP is carping about Blair's ivy matriculation rates) by agreement don't offer merit aid. So at ivies you can only get income-based financial aid, which generally isn't available to families with incomes under $100k barring special circumstances (or if the college has a huge endowment, like Harvard). Also, more and more these days, FA packages carry a big component of student loans, which can be unappealing and for good reason. I know several kids from Blair who were accepted by ivies but turned them down and are now going to SLACs (not UMD in these particular cases, interestingly) that offered merit aid. For most middle class families, paying $50-60k for full tuition at an Ivy is not doable, but a SLAC that offers $10k and often more in merit aid to well-qualified kids is going to look like a great deal. I'm not surprised that the ability to foot $60k/year tuition bills without help from merit or financial aid differs between the western and eastern parts of MoCo.[/quote]

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