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Anonymous wrote:So is the joke on all of us for overpaying to live in W school districts when our kids could have gotten in with the same profile if we had paid less for housing and stayed in Darnestown or Olney?

Perhaps.

BTW, Darnestown and Olney are nice areas.

Talk to your state delegate. This is not fair.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure ANY school with a 45% acceptance rate can be classified as a safety regardless of major. We looked at it as a target/match.

Even moreso for limited enrollment programs like CS, engineering and business. Acceptance rate is much lower for those.

as far as I can tell UMD doesn't admit by major - we are talking just to get in to UMD.

Yes it absolutely does. There are many limited enrollment programs like those mentioned before: CS, engineering, business

Wrong. UMD first just admits, then if you are accepted, it gets sent to the college and they decide if admitted to a specific school.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure ANY school with a 45% acceptance rate can be classified as a safety regardless of major. We looked at it as a target/match.

Even moreso for limited enrollment programs like CS, engineering and business. Acceptance rate is much lower for those.

as far as I can tell UMD doesn't admit by major - we are talking just to get in to UMD.

Yes it absolutely does. There are many limited enrollment programs like those mentioned before: CS, engineering, business

Anonymous wrote:Y'all are just mad that UMD no longer a safety option.

You didn't send your kids to a tough magnet or drive them to all those robotics tournaments so that they could go to UMD.

UMD knows that your high-stats kid at the high-performing school isn't going to choose them, so they didn't choose them either...

^this. They want the students that fit the school and are glad to be there.

Y'all are just mad that UMD no longer a safety option.

You didn't send your kids to a tough magnet or drive them to all those robotics tournaments so that they could go to UMD.

UMD knows that your high-stats kid at the high-performing school isn't going to choose them, so they didn't choose them either...

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Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

While it’s frustrating the reality is that your kid is evaluated in the context of their high school. It would be unfair for UMD to penalize a kid a kid at a school that didn’t offer as many honors/APs and was the top student at their public school. So when someone say it’s 4.7 weighted who knows if that’s typical for the school or extraordinary without some additional info about the school. And that doesn’t get into the holistic aspect of activities, essays, recommendations.

I agree that that it feels like the state of Maryland has enough comparable options like UVA/VT/W&M, Pitt/Penn State, UMich/Michigan State etc. UMD is almost 70% in state, so I don’t know that raising it to 80% in-state or moving to a system with auto admit would solve the issue when there are only a limited number of seats and almost every high school student wants the option of their flagship.

I have an older kid and the Naviance data won’t be accurate until the fall. Our school Poolesville showed about 20/248 get accepted to UMD last time I checked vs normally over 100. Kids haven’t gone in the portal yet.

I wouldn’t draw too many conclusions from Naviance just yet. It’s self-reported and Whitman kids just got an email asking kids to update it. Aside from withholding transcripts though, the administration can’t really enforce reporting.

In past years, acceptance rate has been around 50%. This year’s rate is around 14%. I’m sure that’s not right.

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Anonymous wrote:Naviance has loaded the acceptance numbers for UMD; at our W the acceptance rate is lower than last year

At my child's school, the students go in and update Naviance. Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but maybe not everyone has updated to say that they were admitted yet.

It is pretty quick for 119 students to report their acceptance. Seems automatic to me.

nice can you share what's the rate for your school this year?

This is WJ. Naviance says 401 applications, 119 admissions. Last week it said 388 applications, so there is a chance that some of these are RD apps. Last year both fewer applications and more acceptances.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents are pissed rightly so that MoCo has very high income taxes and people with kids with high GPAs get rejected the only from UMD and need to pay an extra 60k to 100k to another’s states flagship to send their kid to school.

Unlike VA or NY with only one flagship and one with not strict limits like North Carolina etc on mainly excepting in state a ton of spots giving away to OOS students and tax payers are blocked from going.

In my case costing me $80,000 this rejection

Agree that it is very frustrating that the families of magnet kids with stats and rigor higher than the majority of students accepted to UMD have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars more for college. And that this wouldn't be the case if the kid went to almost any other high school.

You should phrase this "MoCO families of magnet kids". Pretty sure high stat kids from many other counties are happy to be accepted to UMD. Its a state school in the sense that it is required to ensure the entire state is included in the admissions. If they just filled their class with MoCo W schools State Government would call that out

Naviance admit stats are definitely self-reporting and therefore aren't reliable. DC just checked and their W MCPS school shows a 5% admit rate currently when the last few years it's always been around roughly 33% plus DC showed me where you self-report on the site.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a member of the UMD parents group and there is almost a revolt among those with high scoring SATs with perfect or near perfect GPAs who didn’t get Honors. My kid is one of them.

It’s irritating to read about all the TO kids who got Honors.

I'd feel the same way, not remotely fair.

Why do you want UMD so badly if your stats are that high? You could probably get into a much more competitive school. Is it a cost thing? Because top schools usually have really strong endowments and are MUCH more generous with financial aid.

My kid did get into the Honors College, just empathizing with parents of non-TO kids who didn’t. Wanting UMD is not rocket science. For a donut hole family, elite colleges cost 3x as much!

NP here - UMD is a great school - not everyone on DCUM can afford or wants their kids to go further away than is a reasonable driving distance. My high stats kid - 34 ACT, 4.65 GPA (who got in - not TO, not Honors, not CS) - would be paying 2-3x as much to attend a school out of state. Factor in the fact that alot of these donut hole families have 1 or 2 fed parents who all of a sudden don't know if they'll have a job tomorrow, and a low in-state tuition at a very good public college is incredibly attractive - which is why so many apply. Paying anywhere from $45k to $80k per year OOS vs. paying $30K in-state is a real financial decision that should not be shrugged off so lightly.

That is not High Stats. Most likely squeeked in. Tons of kids those same tats rejected at Churchill.

MCPS high stats is 35 or 1550+, 4.8w+.

So, so glad that my DC will be leaving this toxic rat race where 1 point difference for a 98% ACT is “squeak”ing in. Also, learn how to spell troll.

Same-- can't imagine why people are flocking South!

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Anonymous wrote:In for CSNS honors!
4.98 at Poolesville SMCS/ MCPS

Whats your SAT or ACT score?

1580. She took it 3 times. We did not take the ACT.

"we"

Got to love it.

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Anonymous wrote:Naviance has loaded the acceptance numbers for UMD; at our W the acceptance rate is lower than last year

At my child's school, the students go in and update Naviance. Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but maybe not everyone has updated to say that they were admitted yet.

It is pretty quick for 119 students to report their acceptance. Seems automatic to me.

nice can you share what's the rate for your school this year?

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure ANY school with a 45% acceptance rate can be classified as a safety regardless of major. We looked at it as a target/match.

Even moreso for limited enrollment programs like CS, engineering and business. Acceptance rate is much lower for those.

as far as I can tell UMD doesn't admit by major - we are talking just to get in to UMD.