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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mont co career counselor in a public high school told the kids they needed 3.8 UNweighted 4.5 weighted with 6 AP's and a 1850 SAT or a 29 ACT to be a good fit for UMD CP[/quote]

I find this very hard to believe.  State schools are perpetually trying to make themselves seem more competitive than they are.  I guess if your kid goes to kind of a crappy montgomery county school, though, maybe umdcp requires more.  [/quote]
I can only assume that you haven't experienced the admissions process as a parent recently?  [/quote]
Have you? What are your child's stats? [/quote]
I have twice, in fact.  My kids' stats were much closer to the pp here that to OP's DD and one was not accepted and one did not bother trying.  What firsthand recent relevant info do you have?  [/quote]

You still fail to give hard evidence. Vague info on one kid and another who didn't even bother applying.  :roll:

But to counter your experience, I know *several* in-state white kids with GPAs between 2.8-3.5, SATs in the 1500-1800 range, with no ECs who were accepted into UMD-CP. Did they get into the Honors program? No. But they certainly were accepted.

UMD-CP has roughly 30,000 students with half of them being white. Do you honestly think that 15,000 of their students entered the university with the high marks that the pp's school counselor suggested? If so, you're kidding (or deluding) yourself. Stop playing the "poor little white me" card. [/quote]

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