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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3.83/4.62 MCPS W. 34 act. 
8 APs no scores submitted for those

Rejected [/quote]

Do a lot of "W" kids go to UMD or do they use it as a "safety?"

Maybe UMD are utilizing historical yield rates from the W svhools. Maybe it's a MoCo thing.[/quote]

At our W school, lots of kids attend UMD. Given that not everyone applies and of those who do, some are rejected, I’d say it’s a pretty good yield. But they don’t yield protect so it’s a moot point. My 2 kids applied, were accepted and attended. Although there’s a belief everyone in W schools has money, we could only afford in-state like many parents. The issue here is that UMD doesn’t want to take the majority of their incoming class from a handful of schools so students are compared to their classmates and not necessarily a student across the county or in Baltimore or southern MD. The stats of admitted kids vary from school to school. Going to a more academically competitive school hurts. [/quote]

Yup, agree with this and the post that notes the weighting grading systems are different in MCPS compared to VA.  A 4.6, for example, is not that great from a W school —compared to peers at that same high-performing school.  Grade inflation in MCPS means it’s not particularly hard to have all As.  And it’s not that hard to have practically all your classes weighted, given that both honors and AP get the same weight and many classes are “honors for all”— meaning everyone in the school is taking the same 9th grade English class and getting weighted credit for it. What this means at the Blair magnet is that a huge number of kids have a 4.0 unweighted and 5.0 weighted GPA (until they take gym).  And as long as they have good everything else, they all get into UMD because the school doesn’t yield protect.  I say this not to denigrate kids with a 4.6 as unqualified, but just so people can understand there are nuances across school systems as to what is truly high stats and high rigor.[/quote]

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