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I have a student in class of 2025. UMD told our school that the middle 50 percentile of SAT scores for accepted students was 1400-1520 and that their acceptance rate last year was 31 percent.  They didn’t say how many applied TO though.  They said this is a safety school for no one.

Our kid really wants UMD. Will end up with one B on transcript. As of end of sophomore year had taken 4 AP classes (only 3 exams) and earned 3 s on them. This year is taking 5 APs and senior year 5 more tentatively so plus MV.

SAT score is almost at the “bottom” of their range high 1300’s. Not URM.

Class of 2024 is it really that competitive?  Is this a big reach for my kid?

No major ECs or sports.[/quote]

overall admit is 44%.  they are trying to overestimate their selectivity and desirability.  [b]yield is terrible[/b][/quote]
It's remarkably consistent though at ~23%. It's a public school without ED. What would you expect?[/quote]

go check ucla and berkeley yield then come back[/quote]
I dont think UMD ever claimed to be UCLA or Berkeley. [/quote]
Perhaps (for now), but it could certainly toot its own horn if it chose to.

Michigan - which has every right to "claim" similarity to those 2 schools - [url=http://https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are/]named UMCP as an academic peer[/url] (which was reciprocated), as did UVA (which wasn't, interestingly).

Objectively, it's positioned itself as [i]just[/i] barely outside of the so-called "Big 5" publics. If you want to convince me that Florida, Texas, and maybe a couple others are right there, too, OK. But UMCP's not taking a back seat to any of those. [/quote]

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