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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not true that they only take maryland residents if there are no DC residents who have applied.  [b]They routinely reject qualified DC residents and then let out-of-state residents into the program[/b]. [/quote]
Not true[/quote]

I find this hard to believe. Everyone at the school that I’ve talked to say they only take MD/VA students if there’s space. So I assume in those cases, there aren’t enough qualified DC applicants. So I guess my question is, how high is the threshold for “qualified”?[/quote]

[b]I know a qualified DC kid who was rejected, and Maryland residents were admitted after that.[/b] [/quote]
How do you know they were qualified? Who determines qualification? We’re going through the audition round now and it seems pretty clear that you can be disqualified for a number of reasons, including doing poorly on the audition.[/quote]

Honestly as a tax paying DC resident, I think a less qualified DC kid should get in over a rockstar MD/VA.  We should be first and foremost educating DC kids.  Anything else is nonsense.[/quote]

Maybe so, but those non-resident kids pay tuition (or are supposed to…).  If they don’t stick to their high quality standards, the overall quality and reputation of the school would go down.  I’m not saying they should consider resident and non resident applicants equally, but I don’t agree that they should accept less than stellar DC residents just to fill spots.  If that kid struggles to keep up, or doesn’t take the program seriously, it brings everyone else down.[/quote]

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