Reply to UMD College Park Results thread

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "UMD College Park Results thread"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rejected.  1440 SAT. 4.2 WGPA.  Full IB diploma.[/quote]

Total BS![/quote]

UMD admission comm  has a deep knowledge of area public schools.

It depends on what major the candidate above applied to.

UMD is hard to get in some of the majors. Especially CS. Howard and Montgomery county schools are full of super high performing students and there are huge benefits of getting into UMD for the hard sciences at least.

[/quote]
DP... not to be mean, but for an IB student, 1440 and 4.2 WGPA are not very high stats.  I would expect better numbers.  But, yes, major also matters.[/quote]

IB is an extremely hard program and many great students will see a dip in grades. In fact, I am always shocked that MCPS institutes IB in the lowest performing schools in the hopes that kids will magically become high performers.  It is a great disservice...

I think IB students should at least get a 1 point GPA jump and a 100 points SAT jump by college admission comm.

- My two cents

[/quote]

It is recognized as a very rigorous education, and kids receive "points" in the eyes of any school or employer familiar with the process. No weak performer should take it on. But the idea of giving literal extra points to someone who went into it with their eyes open is silly. [/quote]

[b]Employee for career positions are not interested in high school, HS GPA or test scores, or HS program. Period[/b].[/quote]

What does that even mean?

[/quote]

DP it means your high school performance is not going to be a factor in getting or denying you a job. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics