One student’s safety can be another student’s reach. If you have a hard time understanding this concept (which many in DCUM do), you need to find someone else to advise on your kid’s college application.

Anonymous wrote:yes, it can be with an over 50% acceptance rate for instate

Tell me you have no clue without telling me you have no clue. It’s a very tough admit these days and even tougher from certain MCPS HSs. It might be a safety from certain parts of the state but not schools like Whitman, WJ, Wootton, Churchill or Blair magnet. It sounds like a likely admit for OP’s son but not a safety.

I doubt UMCP Engineering is a safety for any MD student. And outside Anne Arundel, Howard, and Montgomery counties there are relatively fewer MD public HS students qualified to study engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD engineering is not a safety for anyone. Parents don't seem to realize that engineering is a completely different beast. The standards are so much higher for engineering at UMD compared to any other major. And that's true at most schools.

If my kid applies to UMD engineering and picks an alternate major in A & S does taking the alternate with hope
of transferring make more sense than UMBC or MC with hope of transfer?

Transferring from UMCP A&S to UMCP Engineering is much less likely to work than completing 1 year at UMBC Engineering and trying to transfer to UMCP Engineering.

Anonymous wrote:What county are you from? Not a safety from MoCo. Pretty much a safety from anywhere else.

wouldn't say it's a safety from elsewhere in MD, but certainly A LOT easier than from MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's ever a safety. It's a top program. Plenty are rejected.

Yep. That's why the premise of the thread question is just silly.

I am not sure why it’s “silly” just because the answer is no.

It was an obvious no before you asked the question. That's why.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's ever a safety. It's a top program. Plenty are rejected.

Yep. That's why the premise of the thread question is just silly.

I am not sure why it’s “silly” just because the answer is no.

What county are you from? Not a safety from MoCo. Pretty much a safety from anywhere else.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's ever a safety. It's a top program. Plenty are rejected.

Yep. That's why the premise of the thread question is just silly.

I don't think it's ever a safety. It's a top program. Plenty are rejected.

Anonymous wrote:UMD engineering is not a safety for anyone. Parents don't seem to realize that engineering is a completely different beast. The standards are so much higher for engineering at UMD compared to any other major. And that's true at most schools.

Yep

If he doesn’t get in, do freshman year at UMBC to get pre-requisites out of the way and then transfer—do this instead of gap year.

Anonymous wrote:UMD engineering is not a safety for anyone. Parents don't seem to realize that engineering is a completely different beast. The standards are so much higher for engineering at UMD compared to any other major. And that's true at most schools.

If my kid applies to UMD engineering and picks an alternate major in A & S does taking the alternate with hope
of transferring make more sense than UMBC or MC with hope of transfer?

UMD engineering is not a safety for anyone. Parents don't seem to realize that engineering is a completely different beast. The standards are so much higher for engineering at UMD compared to any other major. And that's true at most schools.

If your DC doesn't get accepted, could he/ she take classes at MC and then transfer?