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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The M in UMD does not stand for Montgomery County. In the context of UMD admissions, MCPS grads are a dime a dozen.  [/quote]

Actually, it is fashionable to say that, but MCPS and HoCo are still all that at UMD.  Biggest Cohort.

However, understand how in-state public flagship works.  UMD pays good money to swoop up the best MD high achievers in in-demand majors like CS, Engineering, Physics, Math etc. But, there is always place for most MD students in other majors too.

And yes, year after year, these STEM majors at UMD are becoming more and more difficult to get in for several reasons - 1) more and more high achieving ORMs have accepted that Ivies and T5 colleges do not want them and so UMD is a viable option for them to get a great education and tremendous leg-up financially in life, 2) as more and more high performing cohorts are congregating at UMD in these majors, they are spurring on the same dynamics in the classroom as a magnet HS program and it is leading to more competition and achievements, further strengthening the reputation of UMD.  3)UMD understands that it has a good thing going and so it is helping its high performing students succeed by creating opportunities for research and internships.

Over years, MCPS has tried to bridge the achievement gap in a dishonest way to placate URM concerns.  However, in a vicious manner, instead of more educational intervention and support to  poor performing URM students, MCPS has basically watered down all education, dismantled the magnet programs, discriminated against ORMs and done grade inflation, so that every one gets a medal.  As a result, URMs are big losers.

So, MCPS students need to know that to get into these in-demand STEM majors at UMD without a hook  they need to - make sure that they are taking the most rigorous courses in HS, have perfect grades (not difficult with grade inflation), take a lot of AP classes in 5 core subjects and also score in 4s and 5s and report these scores to colleges, score at the very top in SAT and not go TO.

The reputation of UMD continues to rest on the high achievers of the DMV area. They are mostly from public school systems and MCPS is the largest public school system.  So MCPS is all that.  And ORMs are all that all that. [/quote]
Valid assessment IMO.   The question still stands on what the trend of admissions looks like from MCPS.  Specifically the # admitted students and their profile for the last few years.  I will definitely be asking my HS for this.  [/quote]

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