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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he likes UMD and it is important to be close to home, that seems like a winner. Price will be right. With those stats he seems like a very strong candidate.

I would visit other places to see what else is out there. But it is great that there is a place that he likes that checks a lot of boxes and seems like a reasonable admit/target!

I think a lot of the rest of the list is great but half the places are not worth focusing on as UMD seems like it is pretty safe target (though no guarantee) and a lot of them are below it. No offense to those schools and this is still a useful exercise.[/quote]

Agreed. UMD is a very strong target for your kid especially if coming from a private school. It's still a strong target from MCPS, but it depends on who else is applying to engineering from his HS. UMD engineering is limited enrollment, so some applying as eng are admitted but to a different school within UMD. There's the option to transfer into UMD's engineering school later.

Delaware and GMU are good safeties that both give merit bringing COA closer to in-state. JHU and Princeton would be reaches, but I'm not sure what income level needs to be for significant financial aid at those schools.[/quote]

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