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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm hearing that some RMIB students did not get into UMD EA. That's somewhat shocking.  I don't know what their stats are, though. Has anyone heard this, too?[/quote]

Yes - they only take so many per high school [/quote]
But in previous years, I thought pretty much all RMIB kids who applied got in.  Is it just that there are more quality applicants from all over?

I do think college admissions has become like the Hunger Games (to use a PP's reference).[/quote]

It’s a number of things. A Big Ten school inside the Nations Capital beltway…the flagship of a highly educated state…no other great option like VT or Pitt in the state to compete with the flagship… top ten national public in research funding … the preppy lacrosse culture angle… the overall academic community with Big Ten UMD, Georgetown, Navy Annapolis, John’s Hopkins all in a 25 mile radius.. low cost in state tuition…the incredible alumni with world changing impact in culture/economy… Big Ten sports.

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Wow. When you put it like that, the only question is: why wasn't it selective before?

I don't know if this link has been posted before on this thread already (it has in other UMD threads), but the UMD acceptance rate went from 51% in Fall 2020 to 34% in Fall 2022. Since a small quarter of their freshman class is in Honors, it would put this year's Honors admit rate at about 8%. If the trend continues, UMD general admission will be more selective than UVA in the next two years.

https://www.irpa.umd.edu/CampusCounts/Admissions/apps_ug.pdf
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Current administration wants UMD to be like UCLA - a public ivy - so its only going to get more selective, well until the [b]2008 Financial cliff applications drop significantly[/b] and then they will have to re-consider how they get enough students to pay the bills. 
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What's this? You mean 2028 applicants?[/quote]

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