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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m just affirmatively angry about the way the UMCP treats McPS grads.  We pay at least as much or more taxes to support that school and they make the bar almost impossible for McPS grads.  I don’t know if there is some way to put political pressure on someone to change this.  I’ve seriously thought about moving to another county for senior year so my kid has a fair shot but can’t bear to make my kid move.

FWIW, my oldest is in a top private and feels extremely well prepared by McPS.  [/quote]

A reminder - of the 31k undergrads at UMD more 10k are Moco kids. The next two counties are Howard and PG with 3k each. There is no different treating of mcps kids.  Not everyone from every W school can get in - just like kids get denied from River Hill in Howard and Eleanor Roosevelt in PG. [/quote]

That doesn’t say much. I’d love to know the stats broken down by county of accepted students, then compare that to the population of the county, and of those that applied.[/quote]
You can explore UMDs data here:
https://www.irpa.umd.edu/ 
Under reports you can find enrollment maps.

I took a quick Look at your question for in-state undergrad enrollment % compared to total population %.
Montgomery 8811 (37.5% in-state) vs. 17.1% state population 
Howard 3184 (13.4%) vs. 5.4%
Prince Georges 2707 (11.5%) vs. 15.1%
Baltimore County 2232 (9.5%) vs. 13.4%
Anne Arundel 1810 (7.7%) vs. 9.5%

Montgomery county is over represented by 20% of undergraduate enrollment compared to our % of the state population. I wouldn’t be so quick to advocate for a flat % from each high school in the state being admitted to the state flagship.

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