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I’m the PP that mentioned aggregate/ county level and, yes, the limit how many students accepted by county. That is what I was trying to explain to the OP. UMD doesn’t want the incoming class to be primarily MoCo kids. Historical, UMD accepts about 50% of Blair kids and the majority are from the magnet and CAP. I do think there is a cap at the high school level if you look at data from Bethesda magazine. However, we don’t have data for upcounty schools to determine if this is universal for the county.[/quote]
So again, confusing.. you say there is a cap on the county level for geographic diversity, but then at the end you also say there is a cap by school.  So it's both?

If 100 kids at a magnet apply, but only 50 get in, even though the other 50 who didn't get in have better stats/ecs than those from non magnet, then this tells me that they are looking at it by program, and by HS.

So, the county is one big group, and then there are subgroups within the county, and magnet students being one of those groups.[/quote]
Blair HS overall acceptance rate might be 50% but I would think that nearly everyone from the magnet program who applies gets in. I don’t think the high magnet acceptance rate disadvantages the regular Blair student. Blair sends a school profile to colleges. The magnet students have a different school profile from the regular school population. The magnet school profile lists median SATs (typically around 1530), GPA distribution and AP score distribution for just the magnet students. 
So the magnet students are compared to their peers in the program. 
Having said this I have not seen any evidence that UMD compares magnet students to each other and only accepts a certain number. Other schools might do this but UMD doesn’t, perhaps because they understand that magnet students come from a wide range of home high schools and all of them would be in the top tier of their high school. Again most magnet students apply to UMD, nearly all are accepted and ultimately around 40% of the program accepts a UMD spot[/quote]

Do you know if Blair does that for the CAP students as well, sends a separate profile for them?[/quote]

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