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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The university of Maryland system. Kid got rejected. 3.9uw, 3.6w from a Catholic with a tough grading scale. Taking 5 ap classes senior year. Captain of 2 varsity sports teams. Volunteered for 4 years. Great recommendation letters. Mature kid. We know lots of kids like this that didn’t get in. It wasn’t even their first choice but it ticked me off as a taxpayer.

For kids like this there is nowhere else to go. Umbc is a commuter school. Towson seems like huge step down. So it’s oos for her.

I’m not sure how Maryland selection works but it doesn’t seem right. And if it’s going to be like this they need a second university with some name recognition.[/quote]

Same for my DD.  Great stats, but rejected by UMD. I did something that I never in my life thought I'd do: I went to college park and asked to meet with someone at admissions to try to understand this.  She told me that because the number of applications has grown so exponentially, they find themselves having to reject kids who got a C or similar freshman year in high school. She said [b]literally their entire incoming class will be made up of kids who have never gotten anything below a B, and even then, the Bs would have come freshman year. [/b] It's ridiculous. So we get to pay OOS tuition for him to go to a virginia school. [/quote]

So all 30K students admitted last year had all As and if they had a B it was from freshman year? I know UMD is very competitive, and I believe this may be the criteria for kids coming from Whitman, Churchill, B-CC, etc., but I find it hard to believe that a school with a 45% acceptance rate is only accepting kids with straight As except for maybe a B or two in 9th grade.

https://irpa.umd.edu/CampusCounts/Admissions/apps_ug.pdf[/quote]
Im not from MCPS, but don't the schools heavily weight advanced classes? Like a 4.0UW, could be a 4.9W? In that case, a student could have a 3.5UW, (multiple Bs each year or even a C) and STILL earn a 4.4W?[/quote]

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