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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][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]
+1  math is math no matter what cultural lens you peer though.[/quote]

Yes, yet I had math professors who stared off into a corner of the room when addressing women’s questions, but were suddenly animated talking to a group of men.  You forget how recently people in these fields had the luxury of dealing with nothing but mini-me’s and were borderline hostile to anyone remotely different. If anything this changed more slowly in the sciences, even though by “science” the error should be obvious.[/quote]
sure, and these types are aholes, and they are dying off.

Regardless, if a woman (or man) can't handle advanced math, then they shouldn't be in a heavy math major, irrespective of their gender or skin color.

Someone mentioned how ridiculous it was that parents were shelling out so much money for tutors so that their kids can have high stats. These types of students would probably struggle in advanced math in college if they don't have tutors. Similarly, a student who was admitted for DEI purposes but who is not as strong in advanced math would also struggle.

Neither students are served by this type of admissions standards with respect to being able to handle the hard math classes.[/quote]

Wrong on all counts.  Aholes only die off if confronted, they burrowed in in the sciences quite well and could do it again. Tutoring doesn’t set anyone up for failure, it’s more a case of too much too soon.  The mental maturity of a college student is much more suited to accelerating in math (like most fields).[/quote]

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