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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UMD with a 64% acceptance rate.  Yikes.  Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok?  It's a solid Big State U.  But not even close to elite.  [/quote]

Whoever said it was elite?[/quote]

Exactly.[/quote]

UMD is clearly not elite.  It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm.  But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc.  They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.  [/quote]

It depends on how you define "elite". If your definition is based on excluding the most people, then probably not. If it is based on what happens there, then UMD has a lot to be proud of.
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Exactly.  This goes for most state schools.  They're very diverse in terms of the range of students' abilities.  Top students at state achools are really fantastic and get great opportunities.[/quote]

My high-performing Blair magnet kid (1600 SAT, 4.8 WGPA, 12 APs/all 5s, national recognition for musical instrument) did not apply to HYP or MIT.  If we stretched (a lot), we could pay for those schools, but are unwilling to do that for a lot of reasons.  DC is in the Honors College at UMD and doing very well.

There are a lot of Blair families like ours, whose kids do not even apply to elite schools.  Therefore I don't pay any heed to these stats.[/quote]

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