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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Safeties will be UMD (in-state) and McGill (discount due to French citizenship). No idea about targets. Reaches will be top 10.
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Maryland is not remotely a safety in state.[/quote]

PP you replied to. Sigh, this is why these threads never do well. For my kids, UMD is a safety. I posted above about my second kid, who has a far better profile than my first kid, who was accepted to UMD (and chose another safety to attend). They both have very high test scores and GPAs, 12 APs, blah blah blah, but my second is far stronger in STEM and has STEM internships and national awards. Applying EA, there is no way she doesn't get in. She knows she cannot blow off any of her essays, to guard against yield protection (but I don't think UMD yield protects a lot).[/quote]

I think you are right--they don't yield protect. Private school kids tend to do much better in admissions than public schools, yet the yield out of privates is abysmal. [/quote]

I don’t think state flagships should yield protect, ethically. Public in-state education should be available to all qualified students who meet the admissions requirements. They have no way of knowing what other circumstances (financial, family, etc) would cause that very high stats kid to turn down an Ivy acceptance and need to stay in-state.

In-state acceptance rate is also around 44%.

I don’t know if they do or don’t yield protect, but if they do I would be extremely disappointed in that university. [/quote]

In-state acceptance at UMD, to clarify I was talking about Maryland[/quote]

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