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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection [/quote]

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college.  And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.  [/quote]

While it’s frustrating the reality is that your kid is evaluated in the context of their high school.  It would be unfair for UMD to penalize a kid a kid at a school that didn’t offer as many honors/APs and was the top student at their public school.  So when someone say it’s 4.7 weighted who knows if that’s typical for the school or extraordinary without some additional info about the school.  And that doesn’t get into the holistic aspect of activities, essays, recommendations.

I agree that that it feels like the state of Maryland has enough comparable options like UVA/VT/W&M, Pitt/Penn State, UMich/Michigan State etc.  UMD is almost 70% in state, so I don’t know that raising it to 80% in-state or moving to a system with auto admit would solve the issue when there are only a limited number of seats and almost every high school student wants the option of their flagship.[/quote]

For some of these majors, like CS, none of these schools (except for MICHIGAN, which gives no money and costs 60,000 a year) are as good as UMD, or as cheap. Most CS kids of course apply to VT, Pitt etc…. But career wise, and money wise, UMD is better. [/quote]

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