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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does UMD not evaluate on unweighted GPAs? This seems odd to me to use weighted GPAS as each district applies weights differently. Our school does not give any weight for honors and also since we moved during HS (military kid) he lost all the weighting from his first two years (FCPS). He got in direct admit to CS, but no honors, and I wonder if that could be why. [/quote]

Out of the Common App schools DC applied to this year, UMD was the only one that required them to manually enter classes/grades/honors or not. This enables UMD to compare apples to apples in unweighted GPAs, while recognizing that different systems weight honors class GPA bumps differently (.5 vs. 1.0). FWIW, most colleges have some method of putting grades into their own systems to allow unweighted apples-to-apples comparisions while also recognizing whether the student took rigorous/honors classes. In other words, it wasn't weighting that was the difference between Honors and no Honors for your kid.

Also, FWIW, my oldest DC is in CMNS double-majoring in CS and Physics; they are in Honors but really it's no big deal and they complain about the extra work of the Honors classes rather than being glad they're in it. Your kid can put together a really great undergrad experience without Honors.[/quote]

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