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Anonymous wrote:I posted on a recent thread about a visit to campus I made with my DC. We were very pleasantly surprised. They need to do more to describe to applicants what happens on the weekends. Other than that, we were sold!

DP. My daughter had a great visit, too. She's waiting to see what merit she gets from out of state privates, but she loved St. Mary's, but would prefer to go out of state if the finances work out.

Visiting and spending 4 years is slightly different. We enjoyed the visit too but cannot imagine spending 4 years there.

That's fine. My daughter can't imagine spending 4 years at the University of Maryland or any other large university like that. Does that mean UMD is bad? No. Just not for my kid. That's why there are different types of schools.

"Duh" statement of the day.

Well, yes, you would think so. But people on DCUM seem to forget that there are different kinds of schools that appeal to different types of kids and not everyone wants to go to a top 10 school or a a big university. Have you seen the threads about College That Change Lives Schools, any schools that's not in the Top 10, or uhm, St. Mary's College of Maryland?

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Anonymous wrote:I posted on a recent thread about a visit to campus I made with my DC. We were very pleasantly surprised. They need to do more to describe to applicants what happens on the weekends. Other than that, we were sold!

DP. My daughter had a great visit, too. She's waiting to see what merit she gets from out of state privates, but she loved St. Mary's, but would prefer to go out of state if the finances work out.

Visiting and spending 4 years is slightly different. We enjoyed the visit too but cannot imagine spending 4 years there.

That's fine. My daughter can't imagine spending 4 years at the University of Maryland or any other large university like that. Does that mean UMD is bad? No. Just not for my kid. That's why there are different types of schools.

"Duh" statement of the day.

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Anonymous wrote:I posted on a recent thread about a visit to campus I made with my DC. We were very pleasantly surprised. They need to do more to describe to applicants what happens on the weekends. Other than that, we were sold!

DP. My daughter had a great visit, too. She's waiting to see what merit she gets from out of state privates, but she loved St. Mary's, but would prefer to go out of state if the finances work out.

Visiting and spending 4 years is slightly different. We enjoyed the visit too but cannot imagine spending 4 years there.

That's fine. My daughter can't imagine spending 4 years at the University of Maryland or any other large university like that. Does that mean UMD is bad? No. Just not for my kid. That's why there are different types of schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I posted on a recent thread about a visit to campus I made with my DC. We were very pleasantly surprised. They need to do more to describe to applicants what happens on the weekends. Other than that, we were sold!

DP. My daughter had a great visit, too. She's waiting to see what merit she gets from out of state privates, but she loved St. Mary's, but would prefer to go out of state if the finances work out.

Visiting and spending 4 years is slightly different. We enjoyed the visit too but cannot imagine spending 4 years there.

Anonymous wrote:I posted on a recent thread about a visit to campus I made with my DC. We were very pleasantly surprised. They need to do more to describe to applicants what happens on the weekends. Other than that, we were sold!

DP. My daughter had a great visit, too. She's waiting to see what merit she gets from out of state privates, but she loved St. Mary's, but would prefer to go out of state if the finances work out.

I posted on a recent thread about a visit to campus I made with my DC. We were very pleasantly surprised. They need to do more to describe to applicants what happens on the weekends. Other than that, we were sold!

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Anonymous wrote:Admission rate of 80%, I am sure your DD won't have any problems.

Any school with that high of admissions rate will always accept applications after the deadline. They'd probably accept applications right up to the first day of class.

SMCM is not a school for everyone. It offers a solid liberal arts education--a lot of parents discourage their DCs to go that route (how will you earn money/get rich/go to Wall Street with a liberal arts education). It's not Harvard, Yale or Princeton or even UVA---according to DCUM those are the only schools worth going to. It's a little hippie-ish, a lot green and very liberal--so there will be a lot of those URMs and other undesirables that DCUM warns us about. But what it does have--a beautiful campus, a tightknit community, world class faculty--are in high demand for those who value those things. The admission rate is so high because those who apply want to go there. They aren't looking to drum up applications to artificially inflate acceptance rates, they are looking to attract those students who are a good fit and will thrive in its care. All of this for in-state tuition. A lot of kids who go there are 'one-and-dones'--they want to go to SMCM and they only apply to SMCM.

Long live the St. Mary's Way!

That much we all agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Admission rate of 80%, I am sure your DD won't have any problems.

Any school with that high of admissions rate will always accept applications after the deadline. They'd probably accept applications right up to the first day of class.

SMCM is not a school for everyone. It offers a solid liberal arts education--a lot of parents discourage their DCs to go that route (how will you earn money/get rich/go to Wall Street with a liberal arts education). It's not Harvard, Yale or Princeton or even UVA---according to DCUM those are the only schools worth going to. It's a little hippie-ish, a lot green and very liberal--so there will be a lot of those URMs and other undesirables that DCUM warns us about. But what it does have--a beautiful campus, a tightknit community, world class faculty--are in high demand for those who value those things. The admission rate is so high because those who apply want to go there. They aren't looking to drum up applications to artificially inflate acceptance rates, they are looking to attract those students who are a good fit and will thrive in its care. All of this for in-state tuition. A lot of kids who go there are 'one-and-dones'--they want to go to SMCM and they only apply to SMCM.

Long live the St. Mary's Way!

That much we all agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Admission rate of 80%, I am sure your DD won't have any problems.

Any school with that high of admissions rate will always accept applications after the deadline. They'd probably accept applications right up to the first day of class.

SMCM is not a school for everyone. It offers a solid liberal arts education--a lot of parents discourage their DCs to go that route (how will you earn money/get rich/go to Wall Street with a liberal arts education). It's not Harvard, Yale or Princeton or even UVA---according to DCUM those are the only schools worth going to. It's a little hippie-ish, a lot green and very liberal--so there will be a lot of those URMs and other undesirables that DCUM warns us about. But what it does have--a beautiful campus, a tightknit community, world class faculty--are in high demand for those who value those things. The admission rate is so high because those who apply want to go there. They aren't looking to drum up applications to artificially inflate acceptance rates, they are looking to attract those students who are a good fit and will thrive in its care. All of this for in-state tuition. A lot of kids who go there are 'one-and-dones'--they want to go to SMCM and they only apply to SMCM.

Long live the St. Mary's Way!

Loved that school...my son would have loved to attend but they did not have his major.

Anonymous wrote:St. Mary's is a college that's always punched above its weight.

+1 People get so hung up on acceptance rates but yet St. Mary's has the 2nd highest graduation rate in MD (just below College Park) and the 3rd best SAT scores of all state schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Admission rate of 80%, I am sure your DD won't have any problems.

Any school with that high of admissions rate will always accept applications after the deadline. They'd probably accept applications right up to the first day of class.

What kind of students get rejected when admit rate is that high?

"Nest of vipers". Thanks for the chuckle.

Anonymous wrote:Admission rate of 80%, I am sure your DD won't have any problems.

Any school with that high of admissions rate will always accept applications after the deadline. They'd probably accept applications right up to the first day of class.