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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There might be a few odd cases, but like PP said, the top 10% are getting into UMD. Not into CS though.[/quote]

You are clearly not from Maryland. I’m not sure if it’s worse in other states, but here for certain high schools it’s essentially a lottery.

That’s the whole point. Guaranteed admissions is guaranteed. Maryland is vibes. [/quote]

Are you telling me if you look at the Naviance for Whitman or whatever school you are at that the top 5% of applicants are an equal mix of accepts and declines? I can tell you for B-CC that is not true. Same at 10%. Top kids are almost uniformly admitted.

I think you are going to need to name the school and your evidence at this point, beyond the fact that your child apparently was not admitted.[/quote]

So just to be clear you are on board with the idea the top 10% at Whitman should be guaranteed admission? That’s the point here and if you agree, fine. [b]The argument is not about whether top students get denied now, it’s whether the state should legally be allowed to deny them based on twenty six random made up factors. [/b][/quote]

[/quote]But this is a strawman, because top 10% at Whitman [b]generally[/b] isn’t getting denied.

One word is doing a lot of work right there. 
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[/quote]Not really. [b]Just because 100% of top 10% kids don’t get in doesn’t mean it isn’t 90 or 95%.[/b] But you’ve provided no substance to any of your arguments and can’t spell holistic correctly, so have a feeling any sort of nuance is lost on you.

As someone else said, name the school and the naviance data that highlights your problem, whatever it is.[/quote]

It should be 100%. That’s the point. What’s the argument for excluding some
kids but not others? The kids who get excluded have no idea why they were denied. In state college tuition is a benefit for your tax dollars. What if it was the other way around? Ninety percent of people pay a normal tax rate but ten percent are picked for a randomly super high tax rate and they aren’t given any reason. No one would look at that and say “well you know that’s close enough to 100%”[/quote]

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