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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you want a reference from '23? My kid was admitted Honors to a Humanities major with a 4.67 weighted gpa, a dozen AP courses (but he skipped the 12th grade exams and had mostly 5s on the others) and a 35 out of 36 on his ACT. He did come from a "W" school, although I'm not sure UMD differentiates where kids come from within MCPS. They could also see on his transcript that he'd had a resource class for 9th and 10th grade and no first period in 12th grade. (He has special needs, but they didn't see the IEP.)

Also, UMD swears that they don't select by major, and they say that their freshman class mostly comes from Early Action applicants. [/quote]

They absolutely do cap students from each high school, not the whole county.  They even know specific teachers at larger schools like Blair and BCC to know “oh that lower grade isn’t as concerning because Ms X is a hard grader.”

You’re competing against other kids at your own high school mostly. [/quote]

This, exactly. You're up against those from your own HS. If you have access to Naviance, take a look at it for recent trends as well.
At my kids' HS, UMD accepted ~25% of applicants in 2025.  In 2024, it was ~35%. In 2023, it was around 55%![/quote]

I see a similar big drop in the % and number of students accepted from our MCPS high school in the past few years.  The  number of students applying has been pretty consistent, but the number accepted has dropped a lot.  What's the reason for the big change in the past two years?

2020 - 152 applied, 79 accepted (52%)
2021 - 181 applied, 88 accepted (49%)
2022 - 183 applied, 86 accepted (47%)
2023 - 187 appliec, 88 accepted (47%)
2024 - 145 applied, 54 accepted (37%)
2025 - 171 appliedd, 48 accepted (28%)[/quote]

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