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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rejected. In state, legacy, 1400 SAT, 3.7 uw, 4.3 w
I am so pissed.[/quote]

To add: applied Arts & Sciences[/quote]

I’m a professor at UMD, a liberal arts department.  This is bonkers to me.  There is no way that some of the students I have in intro courses could have these high school grades and stats.  Some of them can barely write a coherent paragraph.

Not even a Spring admit? [/quote]

I'm sorry, but a 4.3 is not hard to get in MCPS, if that is the school district.[/quote]

She's not in MCPS. What's wrong with those grades? [/quote]

I suspected. Is she in a private? Our kid coming from a Catholic HS could not compete with the GPAs coming out of public schools, and was rejected by UMCP. [/quote]

We don't know yet if the PP's child is coming from a non-MCPS public or a private. Based upon my experience with MCPS, a 4.3W is low for public school. I typically see parents of kids with 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 bragging of admits on these message boards. The kids in MCPS can take honors everything except for PE, beginning foreign language, and algebra, I believe. Beginning art is non-Honors, but a talented kid can skip the lowest-level class. My kid happened to skip Spanish 2.

For the PP with the 1400/4.3W, is your child coming from private or public? How many AP classes has she taken? How many 4's and 5's did she have to report? No, UMD doesn't mandate that students report their AP scores, but great scores certainly don't hurt.

As far as I know, legacy status doesn't count at all at UMD. It stings, but that's the truth. Also, what major did your daughter indicate she wanted? The competition for slots in CS and engineering can be brutal. Perhaps in business as well.

For those who mentioned that UMD takes gender into account, I would assume that this is within majors. A young woman might still have a slight edge applying to CS or engineering. A young man might have a big edge applying to study Russian literature or English. Overall, UMD is around 50/50 male/female, which I see as a plus.

UMD really likes to report the average weighted GPA for its incoming freshmen, whereas a lot of other schools report the average unweighted GPA, which is more uniform across school systems around the country.
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