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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That surprises me too.  According to the scattergram on our HS (BCC's) naviance that would put him over the average for unweighted GPA, ACT, and SAT.  It does look like he took a slightly less challenging courseload than the average applicant, given that he has received .4 weighting, indicating that 40% of his classes were Honors, Advanced Level, or AP.  The average kid accepted from BCC gets a .67 bump from weighting, indicating that 2/3 of their classes are honors, advanced, or AP.[/quote]

When you look at the Common Data Set for UMCP the "very important" academic factors are rigor of secondary record, standardized test scores, and GPA and the "important" non-academic factors are talent/ability and first generation. They also have a priority application deadline of 11/1. I agree with you that rigor of academic program is a possibility.  do think that Naviance can be misleading, though, since it doesn't permit the viewer to see any "hooks" the accepted applicants might have had - students with extraordinary talent/abilities (including athletics), first generation, etc..

With no extraordinary talent/ability and no first generation our children needed  to have scores at the 75%ile almost without exception. The 75%ile for 2012 applicants at UMDCP was 690 Math and 720 verbal. They don't even list the writing score in the Common Data Set so that's not a big factor. Did your child have these scores? Did he/she apply by the priority deadline of 11/1?

The college counseling departments at the public schools rely on Naviance way too much. Students should be looking at the Common Data Set (usually found under the Institutional Research tab of a college/university's website). That's where you can really see the qualifications of who was admitted.[/quote]

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