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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow Churchill was impressive![/quote]

A bit misleading at Churchill. UMD screwed Churchill hard this year. My kid with a 4.7 GPA and 13 APs could not get in even on wait list or delayed program. It skewed it a bit. A lot of those kids who wanted UMD to go instate had to go out of state. And with those GPAs they got into good schools. My kid I said if I am paying full freight pick the best school possible OOS.

And it went other way. My kid has two friends with almost a 4.8 WGPA who at at MoCo community college as parents did not want to pay OOS tuition and did not get into UMD. They plan to transfer over. My kids friends got into a bunch of great schools and still at MoCo. I am like she got into Pitt, Penn, American, NYU, and going to MoCo? Yep parents wont pay. So that also makes list look weird.  [/quote]

Include Blair for UMD. Went from almost 50% acceptance rate to 30%. My child with similar stats (submitted ACT scores) was also denied. [/quote]

Meanwhile, in another thread where UMD is on a list of schools, people are assuming those schools are easy acceptances...[/quote]

College counselor said UMD has grown concerned about its yield for rankings purposes. Don’t know if that’s true but it would explain not admitting high achievers, thinking they can and will go elsewhere (Hopkins, cmu etc). But Honors College at UmD is a great home for kids like that!!!! [/quote]

That’s bunk and I keep hearing that. The issue is that Pines wants geographic diversity. He’s mad because if I recall the numbers correctly 17 percent of population in Maryland lives in MC but 30 percent of students who attended UMD are from MC.  [/quote]
Intelligent people sometimes don't see the forest for the trees.

The reason why UMD has so many kids from MoCo is because MoCo has, proportionally, more higher achieving kids.

This is like when people say, "oh that T10 school has an under representation of URM and over representation of Asian kids".  Over/under representation of what?  The entire US population?  But the entire US population aren't applying to those schools.  Look at the applicant pool. What % of URM are being accepted compared to the *applicant* pool, not the US.  If URM don't apply in relative proportion to the US population, then no, you won't have the student body reflect the general US population.

The only way to get more non MoCo students into UMD is to lower the bar, and that would really impact the ranking.  You can't have a high ranking and not admit the best and brightest, and the majority of those students in MD live in MoCo.
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They say it’s UMD not University of Montgomery County and now the UMD has become more popular it’s easier to do it. UVA plays similar games.[/quote]

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