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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rejected. In total shock. High stats (4.6 W, 11 APs, 34 ACT), great ECs, MCPS. We're hoping it's a yield thing, and this doesn't bode badly for DCs RD applications  :( [/quote]

What were your kid's AP scores? What HS and what is the unweighted GPA.[/quote]

I feel like the entire college process can be a crap shoot. I’ve heard of one high stats kid who didn’t fill out the application correctly and got denied for that reason. But every year there are highly qualified kids who for some reason aren’t accepted. [/quote]

I’m a scientist. I’d want to see national standardized test scores to better compare kids, especially the ones with strong gpas and advanced courses. Otherwise who knows what grade inflation and easy teaching went on. I’m want know they can hack it in exam conditions too, given MCPS did away with finals.

See what I mean? Test optional isn’t really test optional when you’re competing for limited seats.[/quote]

I'm an engineer. I believe that plenty of significant and noteworthy observations are not numerically quantifiable.[/quote]

Obviously. But when two applicants fight for one seat and they have the same gpa, courses and extras, the one who submits scores to prove content mastery will win. The lesson here is that you’ve got to at least prep and attempt the tests, and submit if they’re in line with the top quartile. [/quote]

UMD says that isn’t what they do. Your post sounds incorrect and like guessing and conjecture rather than fact.

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Sigh. In all the years I've been reading DCUM, people have been ultra resistant to the fact that scores actually matter. It got worse when the pandemic hit and a lot more schools went test optional. But the evidence bears out that students with high test scores fare better in applications. It's as if this reality is so obvious you can't deal with it.

Admissions officers have a way of presenting their spiel, and you've got to read between the lines. Unless someone comes out and says : "We don't have a place to report test scores and we don't look at what the College Board sends us and we try to unsee your score if you write about it in your essay" ... yes, they do consider test scores.

None so blind as those who will not see.

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UMD said they put TO and not TO into separate groupings and compare like to like. I wasn’t referencing “unseeing” scores. I know schools want to keep their accepted student stats high so we helped out by not submitting scores that are low due to ADHD. If people only chose students by scores, you’d get more neurotypical people and that’s not really a “rounded” class then.

If you don’t believe UMD, that’s your choice.

My kid applied TO and was accepted.

Your little insult reflects lazy arguing and a know-it-all attitude. “Sigh, I know SO much more than the unwashed.” I’m sure this attitude makes you charming. [/quote]

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