Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 16:49     Subject: UMD yet?
-had kids go through MCPS and applying to colleges & some in college. It’s all a crap shoot.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 16:48     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids get into ivys & UMD or an ivy over UMD. UMD still cheaper and except for Cornell & Princeton, engineering better at UMD than all the others

Are you a school counselor? I probably know of 1 or 2 perhaps.


Nope, just a kids that had 4 go through MCPS
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 16:20     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids get into ivys & UMD or an ivy over UMD. UMD still cheaper and except for Cornell & Princeton, engineering better at UMD than all the others

Are you a school counselor? I probably know of 1 or 2 perhaps.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 16:17     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:UMD should be shut down and made a private school not taxpayer funded.

I say this as it should just have a clear admission policy.

Right now it admit kids based on HS, location. How about just stats and favoring instate.

A kid in North Carolina or Virginia can get in with lower stats in their state and in Maryland how is that fair?

The Maryland kid needs has a higher bar in state and out of state if Virginia or NC.

With 100% honesty I never called for the closure or restructuring of schools that denied or waitlisted my kids.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 16:11     Subject: Re:UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:UMD has around 75% of MD residents, out of state students aren't keeping your kid out, they just weren't as competitive compared to their peers. That's life, someone is always better than you, no matter how hard you work. Perhaps lobby the MoCo school board to stop with the insane grade inflation so it's easier to tell a top student from a so-so one? College admission process sucks, but it's time to stop blaming everyone else and just accept your kid didn't get in, move on. Transfer if you want to go to UMD, go to one of the other state schools if you can't afford out of state tuition.

UMD hasn't been a safety school for many years, perhaps you are just catching up to this, but it's the truth. My kid is top of his class and I was still nervous about his admission. You just never know!


It’s easy to be pious when your kid got in. Congrats.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 16:04     Subject: Re:UMD yet?
UMD has around 75% of MD residents, out of state students aren't keeping your kid out, they just weren't as competitive compared to their peers. That's life, someone is always better than you, no matter how hard you work. Perhaps lobby the MoCo school board to stop with the insane grade inflation so it's easier to tell a top student from a so-so one? College admission process sucks, but it's time to stop blaming everyone else and just accept your kid didn't get in, move on. Transfer if you want to go to UMD, go to one of the other state schools if you can't afford out of state tuition.

UMD hasn't been a safety school for many years, perhaps you are just catching up to this, but it's the truth. My kid is top of his class and I was still nervous about his admission. You just never know!
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 15:55     Subject: UMD yet?
UMD should be shut down and made a private school not taxpayer funded.

I say this as it should just have a clear admission policy.

Right now it admit kids based on HS, location. How about just stats and favoring instate.

A kid in North Carolina or Virginia can get in with lower stats in their state and in Maryland how is that fair?

The Maryland kid needs has a higher bar in state and out of state if Virginia or NC.




Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 15:47     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:In and thrilled and grateful. Do any other parents have concerns about the proposed budget cuts? DD also has merit to a good private that brings the total cost up to about 30k over Maryland total for 4 years. UMD is the dream but they are going to cut advisors and other student facing staff.


No. All schools will have budget cuts eventually because current WH admin would like to dice up colleges and universities.

They will likely attack endowments and, of course, laying off parents doesn’t help.



Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 15:45     Subject: Re:UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:According to this MoCo has currently over 10k students at UMD, so I think this narrative of "our kids don't get in" is overblown. Clearly they do get in and go there. Perhaps they are trying to increase other counties to be more in line with the state? MoCo is about 17% of the state but seems to have about a third of the in state students.

https://reports.umd.edu/tableaupublic/1824

Naviance is self reported, so give the kids a minute to report it.


Interesting chart. The 10k refers to both undergrad and grad students. If you click on "undergrad" it is 8811 from Montgomery--still a great many and the top county by far, but not as high as 10k.

As an AO at UMD stated, "it's the University of Maryland, not the University of Montgomery County".

Repeated every year on DCUM like clockwork.

MCPS magnet kids will do ok where-ever they go. But, MCPS and UMD has been a match made in heaven and the MCPS students have contributed a lot to UMD prestige and ranking for years. Even with the decline in MCPS, there are enough high performers with a culture of academic excellence in their families, to keep a steady supply of future students for UMD.


Thank you for your TED talk. Clap clap.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 15:36     Subject: UMD yet?
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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.


stats from wj - 22% admit for fall semester according to wj staff. last year was 40% so big drop. my child got in to CBSS and honors admit from WJ with 4.91 w/4.0 uw, 1540 sat, 13 APs (all 5s), and nmsf

Self-reported, not reliable/correct at this stage.
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 15:13     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:
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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.


stats from wj - 22% admit for fall semester according to wj staff. last year was 40% so big drop. my child got in to CBSS and honors admit from WJ with 4.91 w/4.0 uw, 1540 sat, 13 APs (all 5s), and nmsf

CBSS?
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 14:55     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:
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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.


stats from wj - 22% admit for fall semester according to wj staff. last year was 40% so big drop. my child got in to CBSS and honors admit from WJ with 4.91 w/4.0 uw, 1540 sat, 13 APs (all 5s), and nmsf
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 13:27     Subject: UMD yet?
Lots of kids get into ivys & UMD or an ivy over UMD. UMD still cheaper and except for Cornell & Princeton, engineering better at UMD than all the others
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 11:38     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hit send too soon. Your kid will be fine in the long run. Let them be bummed this week but they aren’t alone in being rejected and they will be fine wherever they end up


Yes knew someone who got into ivy over umd. baffling.


It's not really baffling, at UMD many in state students apply, so you are competing with the majority of your high school class and if you fall lower than them then you may not get in. At certain Ivys you are prob competing with a much lower number?

Anyway if your kid didn't get in they can transfer next year. There are plenty of options and really you just need to love the schools that love you back!
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2025 11:37     Subject: UMD yet?
Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked at how competitive UMD has become. My older high kid stats got in but my younger kid won’t have a prayer.


they keep saying it is no longer a safety for in state. parents who attended there back in the day would not get in now but parents guide kid as if it is same as "back then."