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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The stats are definitely making me reconsider the magnet programs. I’m puzzled by the modest admissions stats for such high achieving kids.[/quote]

Again, people need to remember it’s not everyone’s goal to go to a US News Top 20 school, UMD has a top ranked Comp Sci program, and these stats are self reported by the students. The school where they are going is probably accurate but they may not have indicated in Naviance where else they were accepted. [/quote]

Do they list these excuses in the school website for parents?

So students at the magnet programs should not trust Naviance when assessing their college choices. Ok.

Probably the rampant grade inflation hurts as well. Almost 80% of the class had a weighted GPA of 4.5 or higher. When everyone has a GPA that high it’s no longer a useful stat. [/quote]

Naviaiance is not useful for any high scoring kid.  Naviance told my kid they would likely get into every top 10 school...when clearly  only a small fraction of kids with perfecgt GPAs and test scores get acceptances.  That is regardless of what high school one attends.[/quote]

Then you have no basis for thinking that the kids who opt out of applying to top 20 schools to go to UMD would have been anything other than another rejected kid.

It does point out that the perfect GPA is a red herring - not a useful thing to cite at all. [/quote]

You seem to have convinced yourself that the magnet will not help your child get into an elite school, so go ahead and send them to your home school.[/quote]

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