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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rejected.  1440 SAT. 4.2 WGPA.  Full IB diploma.[/quote]

Total BS![/quote]

UMD admission comm  has a deep knowledge of area public schools.

It depends on what major the candidate above applied to.

UMD is hard to get in some of the majors. Especially CS. Howard and Montgomery county schools are full of super high performing students and there are huge benefits of getting into UMD for the hard sciences at least.

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DP... not to be mean, but for an IB student, 1440 and 4.2 WGPA are not very high stats.  I would expect better numbers.  But, yes, major also matters.[/quote]

DP: Why?  IB diploma is very rigorous and 1440 is 97th percentile.  Why would you expect higher.[/quote]
Because it is or should be a rigorous program, which means if the student managed to get the diploma (you have to pass all six IB exams), then they should have better test scores, period.

An IB student would be compared to other IB students, not the general student population.[/quote]

This sounds completely wrong to me. I’d like to hear from an admissions counselor. [/quote]
You know how Asian Am kids are compared to each other?  IB kids from the same area are looked at as a group, and compared wthin the group.

If UMD looked at all MD students in one bucket, something like 80% (ok, maybe not 80% but some other ridiculously high numbeer) of the kids would be from MoCo .  I heard a UMD admission officer say that.. "UMD is not the University of Montgomery County".. ie,  we look at all MoCo students as a group, and compare the MCPS students with each other.

I don't know where ^^PP student is from but in MCPS IB program, 1440 would not be very high. It's below the median (1500), and many have a 3.8+ GPA, unweighted. You can imagine what their weighted GPA looks like.

If that ^^PP's kid is from MoCo, that's the type of scores that kid is competing with -- 1500+,  4.2+ GPA, weighted.

Maybe they are from a different county/state, but in MCPS, a lot of IB students usually have much higher scores/grades.[/quote]

I'm not the person whose kid you are denigrating, but you are a pompous ass. [/quote]
stating facts is now equal to being a pompous a$$?  I got those numbers from the school website. Sorry it hurt your feelings.  Or maybe we should all be telling alternate facts and numbers.[/quote]

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