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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Y'all are just mad that UMD no longer a safety option.

You didn't send your kids to a tough magnet or drive them to all those robotics tournaments so that they could go to UMD.

UMD knows that your high-stats kid at the high-performing school isn't going to choose them, so they didn't choose them either...[/quote]

This is just incorrect, period. I have two high-stats kids (one from Blair magnet, 1600 SAT), one at our W home school. Both were admitted and attend/will attend. Older DS is a junior, younger DS was just admitted and will attend. Many families absolutely want UMD because it is excellent value: great education, affordable, nearby. [/quote]

Absolutely. My high-stat kid is from PHS SMCS.  Another reason to select UMD was the network of peers that already existed for him comprising of the DMV high-stat kids - Blair, RMIB, Centennial, TJ etc who were competing with him at local, state, national and international arena for Robotics, Chess, Debate, Science and Math, swimming etc in HS.  They are now his college classmates and dormmates.  If a MoCo kid is going to UMD, he is not leaving a small town in the middle of USA to find his "tribe" in UMD.  He is already with his "tribe".   The benefit of UMD is that it also attracts a lot of students from East Coast and the rest of the world.  So his network has only increased.

Besides, the network of mentors that he had locally because of the internships, workshops and research he had done in HS, has allowed him to find other opportunities while in college.  So, he has been interning since Freshman year during summer and research assistantship during the school year at the University.  So, it is a win-win. [/quote]

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