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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The number of students that accepted to be listed in the magazine are about 60 out of ~100. My kid ('26) knows at least 3 more accepted at UMD and not in the magazine. 
He never heard about a colleague being accepted at MIT and going to UMD (that person might very well exist).[/quote]

We'd probably choose UMD over MIT because of the cost and wanting to pay for grad school.  Not everyone can pay $100K a year.[/quote]

This kid got a free ride to MIT (Questbridge) and turned it down for UMD[/quote]

So this kid got free admission to MIT through Questbridge but decided to go to UMD (probably also free do to low income). 🤔 
Problem here is Questbridge is binding, so he couldn't turn down MIT offer. Fishy ...[/quote]

Stop embarrassing yourself in a permanently archived forum.

MIT Questbridge is not binding.

https://questbridge.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/218777167-Is-QuestBridge-binding[/quote]

Make sense. He got admitted through a less competitive low income program (Questbridge), got scared by the possibility to attend, and picked instead a less intense but still great school like UMD. [/quote]

I don't know this kid, but that's the least generous read I've ever seen, and honestly either racist, classist, or both.

There are a million reasons someone would decide not to attend MIT, but my first guess is that a Questbridge kid is also a kid who has more familial responsibilities than your average UMC white kid from Potomac, and they may have wanted to stay close for that reason. OR...that kid realized they were going to be shockingly underrepresented at MIT, and might have wanted to pursue their education in a space that is more culturally competent. [/quote]

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