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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UMD-CP! My child (soph) loves it[/quote]
? UMDCP is a safety for most kids?  I know a few magnet kids in MCPS who didn't get in.[/quote]

Not a safety.  Anyone who lives in MD wants to go their b/c of the tuition. Highly selective just because of the number of applicants.[/quote]

Safety is relative. And, if you have really high stats, you should be good at UMD (EA of course). It was a safety for my kid last year. 4.83W, 1570 SAT, lots of honors, ECs.

But, I agree generally that UMD is not a safety school. It just might fill that slot for some kids, though.[/quote]

You might have considered UMD a safety, and it turned out OK because your child got in. My kid had similar stats this year, and got in, as we expected. But I wouldn't call it a safety school, even for our high stats kids. (And I think referring to UMD as a safety school is likely to lead astray other people whose kids may not get in, now or in the future.)[/quote]

PP here. No one is calling it a "safety school  " the question was about what safeties your kids were happy about -- for THEM. This was one for mine and a few others. In this case, safety is relative to the student,  but not one person who identified it as a safety for their kid suggested it was a "safety school " overall.  I even went so far as to say that I agree it is not a safety for most. So why try to pick a fight here? So annoying. [/quote]

These days, UMD-CO isn't a safety for anyone.  Take a look at the UMD results thread where you will see that high performers were rejected this year.[/quote]

It was for my kid. And, it was "these days." Look. I don't know why one poster is hung up on this. Everyone can have different likelies. UMD was for #1 (this past year), and with certain stats level, yeah, it can be a likely. Super high performers were not rejected. Only one rejected on that thread even came close to the stats that I'm talking about. Clearly it was a likely/safety for several posters here, not just mine. It may not be as likely for my #2 kid. And, that's OK too. I am really enjoying reading this thread and getting great feedback on all the schools. How about we just do that rather than trying to lecture other people about their choices and experiences![/quote]

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