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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected. [/quote]

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays? [/quote]

Biology is a popular subject due to premed.

Would you mind sharing the high stats that are rejected?

My son’s MoCo high school college counselor said a SAT score of 1500+ (w/ top grades and high rigor for GPA obviously) should be safe for UMD. His school had 20-25% of kids getting in UMD couple of years ago, but that % was cut half last year![/quote]

I just saw the examples here. For example:

Subject: UMD decision 2026
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Rejected for Biology major. Good MCPS high school. 4.8 weighted GPA, several 5s and 4s on AP exams. Multiple character awards for varsity sports. Accepted into Virginia Tech. Rejection is redirection!

Not sure about his SAT. But GPA is definitely good enough. I know a kid in MCPS who got into ED Cornell, 3.8ish UW, 4.6W, SAT 1510. No national award.  
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Good MCPS sounds like it is probably a school where the cutoff is higher since they don’t want to overload on kids from one school. It may be that test optional is less test optional from those schools since they will have so many high stats kids applying. Also “several APs” is kind of vague. This GPA can be achieved by just honors classes and no AP classes. That is to say, this amount of detail in and of itself doesn’t by definition mean this person is in the top 1/4 of kids from their HS who are applying.

A high stats kids from Whitman getting  declined would be very different from a high stats kids from Paint Branch being declined.

Now, we can debate all we want on whether the bar at Whitman should be higher than the bar at Watkins Mill, but at this point it seems relatively established that it is.[/quote]
Yup, likely test optional (aka low SAT score). It looks bad unless you’re underprivileged.[/quote]

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