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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There might be a few odd cases, but like PP said, the top 10% are getting into UMD. Not into CS though.[/quote]

You are clearly not from Maryland. I’m not sure if it’s worse in other states, but here for certain high schools it’s essentially a lottery.

That’s the whole point. Guaranteed admissions is guaranteed. Maryland is vibes. [/quote]

Are you telling me if you look at the Naviance for Whitman or whatever school you are at that the top 5% of applicants are an equal mix of accepts and declines? I can tell you for B-CC that is not true. Same at 10%. Top kids are almost uniformly admitted.

I think you are going to need to name the school and your evidence at this point, beyond the fact that your child apparently was not admitted.[/quote]

So just to be clear you are on board with the idea the top 10% at Whitman should be guaranteed admission? That’s the point here and if you agree, fine. [b]The argument is not about whether top students get denied now, it’s whether the state should legally be allowed to deny them based on twenty six random made up factors. [/b][/quote]

[quote]But this is a strawman, because top 10% at Whitman [b]generally[/b] isn’t getting denied.

One word is doing a lot of work right there. 
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[/quote]Not really. [b]Just because 100% of top 10% kids don’t get in doesn’t mean it isn’t 90 or 95%.[/b] But you’ve provided no substance to any of your arguments and can’t spell holistic correctly, so have a feeling any sort of nuance is lost on you.

As someone else said, name the school and the naviance data that highlights your problem, whatever it is.[/quote]

[/quote]It should be 100%. That’s the point. What’s the argument for excluding some kids but not others? The kids who get excluded have no idea why they were denied. In state college tuition is a benefit for your tax dollars. What if it was the other way around? Ninety percent of people pay a normal tax rate but ten percent are picked for a randomly super high tax rate and they aren’t given any reason. No one would look at that and say “well you know that’s close enough to 100%”. [/quote]

So your argument is simply that the only thing that matters is GPA (and, subsequently, class rank) and this should be the only deciding factor, based on an arbitrary threshold (decided by you). Not test scores, class rigor, intended major, anything else. Got it. [/quote]

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