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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious. Tell me about your kid who got into UMD and just didn’t want to go because it is close to home.  As much as I wanted my kid to go there, she wanted to get away.   So she is going to Indiana.  -sigh- [/quote]

My kid could not get into UMD College Park because we live in Montgomery County. Because of this we have to pay 4 times more tuition. I have paid tons of Maryland taxes for 3 plus decades and no pay off with UMD. Disgraceful.[/quote]

Plenty of kids get into UMD from MCPS--[b]so that can't be the only reason![/b]
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Yes it can be the only reason!

My student is in the top 10% of his class at a top Montgomery County High School. 
Montgomery County is allocated only a certain number of slots for UMD.
But for an "equitable" distribution among the counties, UMD would have 80% Montgomery County students. Frustrating for a student who did all the right things and made good choices. [/quote]
My magnet kid got shut out at T15.  4.95 WGPA,  1580 SAT (perfect math score),  all 5s on 9+ APs (I lost count), good e.c.s including top honors in a nationally recognized organization.

Why did they get shut out of T15 when kids in the same school got in with much lower stats?  Because my DC's major is very competitive and the others are not, and the other has DEI that my kid doesn't.

There are many reasons why top performing kids don't get in.

I'm willing to bet there were kids at your MCPS HS who had lower stats who did get into UMD.  [b]Unfortunately[/b], it's not just about test scores and stats.  Major matters, too.  [/quote]

You only inserted "unfortunately" because that limited list of criteria would have favored your kid.

Schools get to curate the incoming class they want. Just like kids get to compose their own lists.

Great time for kids to learn to cope with the fact that we don't always have control over outcomes. And you move on...[/quote]
yes, because DEI has nothing to do with achievement and academics. The color of your skin or what gender pronoun you feel like using that day should have no bearing on college admissions.

My kid can't help that they are heterosexual or born with a particular skin color.   DC joked that they should say they are racially fluid because they are biracial, sometimes they feel like they are x race, and other times y race. That's how silly these DEI labels have become.[/quote]

I disagree with you.

Classroom discussions/learning are greatly enhanced when people in the room bring different (versus one) perspective.

—Signed, a professor [/quote]

Maybe in the easy majors. Not in the hard sciences [/quote]

Even in the hard sciences there is ample room and need for different perspectives. Something as "basic" as multiplication has many approaches. All work. All worth understanding.

https://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/ethiopian-multiplication

This is a method known to have been used in Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, etc. and according to the people discussing it here is exactly how math is done by computers.

So I agree with the professor. [/quote]
Math doesn't care how you get the answer. Just get the right answer and quickly.   An Ethiopian can have a different way of doing the math, but they better get the right answer.  They should still be able to score very high on the math SAT. Otherwise, what is the point of a different perspective in math if you cannot get the right answer?  Will the rocket care that you had a different perspective on math if you can't get the answer correctly and quickly and the rocket blows up at launch?

Again, math doesn't care about your perspective.[/quote]

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