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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is a strong student. She has been accepted to two top 10 schools as well a handful of other schools.

However, she is chasing merit aid and hasn’t received enough aid anywhere to bring tuition costs down anywhere near our state flagship. Because of this she will likely be attending our state flagship.

The problem is that she was not accepted to the honors college at our state flagship. It is the only honors college that rejected her. I’m not sure why she was rejected.

I am having a difficult time dealing with this. DD is very “academic” and really enjoys being around other serious students. I am so sad for her but I’m trying not to let it show.

She says she doesn’t care, but I don’t think she fully understands what this means. [/quote]

Honors College admissions and merit seem to be quite random at UMD. At my kid's public high school, very few peers got honors. They all have the rigor, grades, test scores. And Honors admits are the pool from which they invite students to interview for Banneker Key.

It could be that other state flagships are the same.

Our older child is in Honors at UMD and wants to complete the 2 year program they chose. One benefit seems to be a nice peer group in dorm.[/quote]

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