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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read from College Confidential that some kids with 1600 SAT and  GPA 4.0 could only get into their flagship public schools. Not sure if every of these people are real. Nor do I think the flagships are necessarily bad. But from what I know about MCPS magnet programs that many kids with high stats only get into public schools.

You can say the public schools are the perfect fit for these students. Which implicitly implies that the good private schools are not good fit for them, even though many of them long to attend these schools. 
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Definitely not true, unless they applied only to state u and HYP. [/quote]

As a parent of some MCPS magnet program kids, I will say that about 50% go to the University of Maryland. For my kids, they were looking at top 25 national universities or were planning on going to UMD (and they picked one more state school as a safety). They did ED where it mattered, and ended up getting into one. Many of their peers will waste that ED shot on Princeton, Yale or Stanford, and may indeed be looking at going to UMD because they didn't get in anywhere else. But it's not because they [i]couldn't[/i] get in elsewhere, it's because for computer science or math, for example, it just doesn't make sense to go elsewhere for the money and quality. Therefore, they didn't apply, for example, to Villanova, or Loyola, or a myriad of other places they could have gotten in. They have a very skewed list of applications (for the most part, particular needs and interests not withstanding). A certain percentage strategize incorrectly, a large percentage are going to UMD because of quality and affordability, but I would say a very small minority are actually shut out. [/quote]

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