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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3.6 uw/1520/top private school. In at a top 10 university already. Rejected from Maryland. What a wild ride.[/quote]

That's astonishing. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Congrats on the T10 acceptance!!

Maybe you can appeal? Seems crazy to be rejected with those stats. [/quote]

I wonder if this is an example of how lower grades at private schools hurt when applying to public universities that are more stat driven and don’t take into account different programs the same way private colleges do. [/quote]

This is what we think happened. A 3.6 doesn't look great, but he has taken many APs etc. We were counting on UMD to help us compare financial aid packages. I'm more astonished than upset. I guess we're heading to Philadelphia![/quote]

Actually, I think this is what happened to my older DD. She had about a 3.5 at a private, yet she got A+'s in calculus and physics and chemistry, but Bs in English and a few other classes. She was rejected from Clark, which is absolutely astonishing given that she's now in a PhD program at one of the very top engineering schools in the US. She got an 800 on the math part of the SAT, but about a 640 on the language part. I think UMD is so numbers-driven that they didn't see my child and made no allowance for how difficult her classes were at her private.  Her GPA and total SAT was all that mattered, and Clark rejected her. [/quote]

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