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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD. [/quote]
Can you list a few most rigorous APs taken?[/quote]

The Blair HS STEM magnet program classes are generally described as higher level than AP. In addition to all the magnet courses, DS took a couple of AP history classes (I believe Government and Modern World, not U.S. History as it was advised that students not take that as a freshman). He took honors English to balance things out in his schedule, which is what is recommended for magnet students - take AP History OR English - some, of course, took both. Believe it or not. I'm not answering anymore questions on this thread. Thanks for the kind words from some of the folks here. Best of luck to your students. [/quote]
Sorry for the rejection but that explains it.  There were many other UMD applicants from Blair who took much more rigorous AP courses & exams including AP Calc BC, AP physics C, AP English lit, AP US History, AP Chemistry, etc., while your student applied with just an SAT score and high weighted GPA that was built with less rigor honors courses. [/quote]

I wonder what his class rank was.  I teach in a MD public high school and have DCs who have/will apply to UMD.  In the past few years, UMD only seems to accept the top 10%.  [/quote]

That’s the issue: 4.73 whoa is actually very low for Blair SMCS: https://old.mbhs.edu/departments/magnet/ParentResources/MagnetProfile.pdf

It’s the bottom 15% of students in the program, which you wouldn’t know from the regular school profile and I have always wondered why Mr O puts additional breakdowns on the smcs profile. [/quote]

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