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Anonymous wrote:Indiana is an extraordinary beautiful campus with lots to do. College Park sucks. Your daughter is smart, and congrats to her!

Lots to do 😂

It’s OK that world-class opera isn’t your thing, or competitive cycling, or hiking, or a ridiculous number of student clubs, or intramural sports, or rowing, or restaurants and bars (way better/way more than College Park), or live music (WAY more than College Park), or ice skating, or art galleries, or…

-Person who has lived, worked and studied in both Bloomington and College Park

Anonymous wrote:Indiana is an extraordinary beautiful campus with lots to do. College Park sucks. Your daughter is smart, and congrats to her!

Lots to do 😂

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Anonymous wrote:We passed because admitted to Spring 2024. And Colege Park is a dud.

LOL. Jealousy not sexy.

I think they mean the area is a dud, not the school, and a spring admission sucks for a Freshman.

I hate the preppy lacrosse culture over there.

Agree!! Lacrosse, Old Bay, genius alumni, 3rd highest entering SAT scores in the big ten, more national championships.. Nobels, Pulitzers Blah Blah Blah..

Even the letters “UMD” are pretentious like U medical doctor or something. Give me Indiana any day.

HOOSIERS!! BLOOMINGTON! Yee Haw!!!

Indiana is an extraordinary beautiful campus with lots to do. College Park sucks. Your daughter is smart, and congrats to her!

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Anonymous wrote:We passed because admitted to Spring 2024. And Colege Park is a dud.

LOL. Jealousy not sexy.

I think they mean the area is a dud, not the school, and a spring admission sucks for a Freshman.

I hate the preppy lacrosse culture over there.

Agree!! Lacrosse, Old Bay, genius alumni, 3rd highest entering SAT scores in the big ten, more national championships.. Nobels, Pulitzers Blah Blah Blah..

Even the letters “UMD” are pretentious like U medical doctor or something. Give me Indiana any day.

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Anonymous wrote:We passed because admitted to Spring 2024. And Colege Park is a dud.

LOL. Jealousy not sexy.

I think they mean the area is a dud, not the school, and a spring admission sucks for a Freshman.

I hate the preppy lacrosse culture over there.

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Anonymous wrote: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-

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.

Plenty of kids get into UMD from MCPS--so that can't be the only reason!

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.

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. Unfortunately, it's not just about test scores and stats. Major matters, too.

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...

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.

I disagree with you.

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

—Signed, a professor

Maybe in the easy majors. Not in the hard sciences

Let's not go here. This is rude. And, as a prof in the hard sciences, I disagree with this anyhow. The URMs at my university in the major where I teach are, on average, *more* accomplished both before and after graduation than many other kids. (The students I see struggling the most are honestly international students, which schools, yes even the need-blind elite ones, take for reasons of money and sometimes prestige depending on the applicant).

DEI is not a "hook" at the T10 school where I teach. The reality is that in 2023 excellence requires *more* than just great scores. And I say this as someone who would also be shut out now, because that was my resume, too. It's a bummer but we all need to adapt and ask more holistically what a successful person should be like now. An elite college isn't an entitlement for anyone, and honestly isn't even needed. Most of my successful (and especially self-made wealthy) friends and colleagues didn't go to a fancy undergraduate school.

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Anonymous wrote:We passed because admitted to Spring 2024. And Colege Park is a dud.

LOL. Jealousy not sexy.

I think they mean the area is a dud, not the school, and a spring admission sucks for a Freshman.

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Anonymous wrote: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-

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.

Go to UMBC or something.

That is an A-Hole statement. My DC is in the top 10% in his class. UMBC is an OK school whereas UMD is a very good school approaching UNC Chapel Hill quality.

DP. There are fewer seats in the UMD freshman class, than MD HS students in the top 10% of their class. So this isn't a Montgomery County problem. Your sense of entitlement may be.

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Anonymous wrote: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-

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.

Go to UMBC or something.

That is an A-Hole statement. My DC is in the top 10% in his class. UMBC is an OK school whereas UMD is a very good school approaching UNC Chapel Hill quality.

Apparently, your DC wasn't good enough to get into UMD. You're the one crying about Maryland taxes paid and all. Find other options within MD, or stop whining.

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Anonymous wrote: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-

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.

Go to UMBC or something.

That is an A-Hole statement. My DC is in the top 10% in his class. UMBC is an OK school whereas UMD is a very good school approaching UNC Chapel Hill quality.

LOL this was me 30 years ago. Except I chose a middling SLAC over Cal. No regrets though.

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Anonymous wrote:And certainly medicine suffered when it was ruled by white men alone.

Many of the posters here need to get out of the country club and realize the world is changing.

NO field should be walled off from social realities.

that was due to racism and even prevented smart poc from going to medical school. That had nothing to do with "perspective" and DEI.

Oh, so they got everything right on being female before women were accepted into medical school?

https://time.com/6074224/gender-medicine-history/

You have SO much to learn.

Sounds like you did not get enough exposure to other perspectives, TBH.

1. that's not what I stated.
2. females who were capable of doing the work were not allowed. That is different from "holistic" admissions for DEI. Women and poc were purposefully kept out high learning. That is different.

You seem to think that women and poc are only able to get into college because of DEI. That's so sad.

You are being simple, that is not what PP implied (but you know that). Not only were women and POC discriminated against in medical admissions, they have received inferior medical care because their voices were not at the table. They’re perspective has been a missing element in medicine, and practices have changed as their numbers have increased.

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Anonymous wrote:And certainly medicine suffered when it was ruled by white men alone.

Many of the posters here need to get out of the country club and realize the world is changing.

NO field should be walled off from social realities.

that was due to racism and even prevented smart poc from going to medical school. That had nothing to do with "perspective" and DEI.

Oh, so they got everything right on being female before women were accepted into medical school?

https://time.com/6074224/gender-medicine-history/

You have SO much to learn.

Sounds like you did not get enough exposure to other perspectives, TBH.

1. that's not what I stated.
2. females who were capable of doing the work were not allowed. That is different from "holistic" admissions for DEI. Women and poc were purposefully kept out high learning. That is different.

You seem to think that women and poc are only able to get into college because of DEI. That's so sad.

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Anonymous wrote: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-

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.

Go to UMBC or something.