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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious, too. When I look at it for my almost rising senior from MCPS, I feel like it overestimates chances at some highly competitive SLACs like Middlebury and Wesleyan compared to our school’s Scattergrams, which show far less success. In contrast, I feel like some target percentiles for schools like Oberlin or F&M are too cautious, where everyone gets in from our school with my kid’s stats. [/quote]

OP here: I was asking because it listed UMCP as a target and SUNY Binghamton as a High Target for my daughter who has no APs and want to apply to an engineering program, no SAT yet and it recommended applying test optimal. She has a 4.0 UW GPA but based on these boards she’s a degenerate imbecile who shouldn’t even dare to look at the UMCP campus from a car window.[/quote]

My kid had a 4.2 and was accepted to UMD test optional.

I considered Maryland a high and uncertain target. We definitely did not consider acceptance a sure bet.

I suspect the essays and geography provided a bump.

The engineering program might be a reach without APs, because they look at course rigor. You never know, though! [/quote]

Yeah, I think so also, but she will be in a part-time MCPS engineering-related program also for 2 years, so hopefully that will help show her desire and aptitude. Ve told her it’s not a sure bet, and for now she’s also very interested in JMU, and some others are places we need to look into further. I think she’d have no issues getting into the SUNY that I graduated from, so that’s a good backup. It’s a good program too.[/quote]

If you’re the OP: Why won’t she have any AP classes?

My son went to a school with terrible STEM AP teachers, because, apparently, there’s such a shortage of STEM AP teachers that the only qualifications expected are AP certification plus not currently being in prison for ax murder. But, if your daughter is in that situation, maybe she could enroll in the terrible AP Calculus class that happens to be available and max out on tutoring.

My recollection is that the first two computer science classes for majors at my university — which was comparable to Tufts and not highly ranked for CS — were difficult and time-consuming. Given how popular CS today, and how expensive it is to offer, I’d think that schools must face a lot of financial pressure to turn CS majors into math or physics majors as quickly as possible, and that it’s critical for CS students to go in over-prepared for the first-year classes. If most other kids in the program would have had Calculus AB, I’d want my son to go in with Calculus AB, if that’s possible, even if he didn’t put the AP test results in the application.  [/quote]

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