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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious. Tell me about your kid who got into UMD and just didn’t want to go because it is close to home.  As much as I wanted my kid to go there, she wanted to get away.   So she is going to Indiana.  -sigh- [/quote]

My kid could not get into UMD College Park because we live in Montgomery County. Because of this we have to pay 4 times more tuition. I have paid tons of Maryland taxes for 3 plus decades and no pay off with UMD. Disgraceful.[/quote]

Plenty of kids get into UMD from MCPS--[b]so that can't be the only reason![/b]
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Yes it can be the only reason!

My student is in the top 10% of his class at a top Montgomery County High School. 
Montgomery County is allocated only a certain number of slots for UMD.
But for an "equitable" distribution among the counties, UMD would have 80% Montgomery County students. Frustrating for a student who did all the right things and made good choices. [/quote]
My magnet kid got shut out at T15.  4.95 WGPA,  1580 SAT (perfect math score),  all 5s on 9+ APs (I lost count), good e.c.s including top honors in a nationally recognized organization.

Why did they get shut out of T15 when kids in the same school got in with much lower stats?  Because my DC's major is very competitive and the others are not, and the other has DEI that my kid doesn't.

There are many reasons why top performing kids don't get in.

I'm willing to bet there were kids at your MCPS HS who had lower stats who did get into UMD.  [b]Unfortunately[/b], it's not just about test scores and stats.  Major matters, too.  [/quote]

You only inserted "unfortunately" because that limited list of criteria would have favored your kid.

Schools get to curate the incoming class they want. Just like kids get to compose their own lists.

Great time for kids to learn to cope with the fact that we don't always have control over outcomes. And you move on...[/quote]
yes, because DEI has nothing to do with achievement and academics. The color of your skin or what gender pronoun you feel like using that day should have no bearing on college admissions.

My kid can't help that they are heterosexual or born with a particular skin color.   DC joked that they should say they are racially fluid because they are biracial, sometimes they feel like they are x race, and other times y race. That's how silly these DEI labels have become.[/quote]

I disagree with you.

Classroom discussions/learning are greatly enhanced when people in the room bring different (versus one) perspective.

—Signed, a professor [/quote]

Maybe in the easy majors. Not in the hard sciences [/quote]

Let's not go here.  This is rude. And, as a prof in the hard sciences, I disagree with this anyhow. The URMs at my university in the major where I teach are, on average, *more* accomplished both before and after graduation than many other kids. (The students I see struggling the most are honestly international students, which schools, yes even the need-blind elite ones, take for reasons of money and sometimes prestige depending on the applicant).

DEI is not a "hook" at the T10 school where I teach. The reality is that in 2023 excellence requires *more* than just great scores. And I say this as someone who would also be shut out now, because that was my resume, too.  It's a bummer but we all need to adapt and ask more holistically what a successful person should be like now.  An elite college isn't an entitlement for anyone, and honestly isn't even needed. Most of my successful (and especially self-made wealthy) friends and colleagues didn't go to a fancy undergraduate school.[/quote]

+1000 
Where you go does NOT matter, it's what you do while you are there.

Just look at the Exec team at your company (or your spouses).  Most likely very few went to "elite" schools.  I know execs who went to Towson who are multimillionaires before 40.  In fact I know more millionaires who went to "no-name schools" than those who went to elite schools.  
Once you get over the mental issues that your kid Must attend an elite college or bust, your kid will be free to learn, grow and succeed in life no matter where they go. 
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