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Anonymous wrote:DS graduated with 2.5GPA and 920 on SAT. Got accepted into UVA playing football. It’s possible

Family of geniuses.

At least they are possibly nice people, unlike you.

Congrats to DS on his achievements and goals. It is a lot of work to play football and graduate with a four year degree. Your son and your family will go far unlike the nasty prior, prior poster.

LOL@ 2.5/920. That’s hard to get! Congrats!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS graduated with 2.5GPA and 920 on SAT. Got accepted into UVA playing football. It’s possible

Family of geniuses.

At least they are possibly nice people, unlike you.

Congrats to DS on his achievements and goals. It is a lot of work to play football and graduate with a four year degree. Your son and your family will go far unlike the nasty prior, prior poster.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing wrong with "average." I went to University of Delaware.

Great jobs and career after graduation.

As the other poster said....there is a lot to be said
for life skills.

I know a lot of Ivy League graduates working
in retail or as secretaries post graduation or otherwise
doing jobs you could get with a high school degree only.

You know a lot? How many Ivy grads working in retail that you know of? Which Ivy did they attend?

Nothing wrong with "average." I went to University of Delaware.

Great jobs and career after graduation.

As the other poster said....there is a lot to be said
for life skills.

I know a lot of Ivy League graduates working
in retail or as secretaries post graduation or otherwise
doing jobs you could get with a high school degree only.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly "average" students in this country do not attend four year college.

?

Yes they do.

More kids than ever are attending college...which is precisely why it's become so competitive. It was relatively easy to get into umcp in the 80s. It got harder in the 90s, and then within the last decade or so it became ridiculously hard.

And if you get an Associates from MC with a certain GPA, you automatically get into umcp. Google it.

Lastly, St. Mary's is the honors college in MD. Is it really easier to get into than umcp?

SMCM is much much easier to get into than CP.

Proud mom of "average" kids...whatever that means. Average "GPA wise" yes. But in life skills "well rounded" kids...they are above average. I was the average kid too....and scored even lower on SATs than my kids...went to Marymount then transferred to JMU. Went on to Georgetown. Happy in my career and making enough to live in NOVA...no small feet.

It's tough being "average" in NOVA but there is a college for everyone and in the end it doesn't matter where you start but where you finish and what you do with a degree.

Go to Radford or Longwood...transfer after 1 yr if not happy....or finish and then do grad school at UVA, W&M, etc. I know of someone who went from Longwood to W&M to earn Masters in Ed. It's possible. Everything is possible with hard work and grit.

NOVA and if they do well, transfer to GMU

Anonymous wrote:State schools including Cornell

You spelled it wrong - one too many "L"s.

State schools including Cornell

^^^so many articles about the decline of college grads with lots of factors. When you talk of competitiveness, you’re referring to the top tier schools. Most college kids do not attend those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly "average" students in this country do not attend four year college.

?

Yes they do.

More kids than ever are attending college...which is precisely why it's become so competitive. It was relatively easy to get into umcp in the 80s. It got harder in the 90s, and then within the last decade or so it became ridiculously hard.

And if you get an Associates from MC with a certain GPA, you automatically get into umcp. Google it.

Lastly, St. Mary's is the honors college in MD. Is it really easier to get into than umcp?

College grads are and have been declining for almost a decade. The outlook for the next decade is even worse.

Statista shows that about half of the kids in each birth year group are getting bachelor’s degrees, and that the percentage has been increasing a bit in recent years:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185157/number-of-bachelor-degrees-by-gender-since-1950/

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/01/08/new-book-argues-most-colleges-are-about-face-significant-decline

Lots of kids are going to college but not many finish.

Michigan and NYU

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly "average" students in this country do not attend four year college.

?

Yes they do.

More kids than ever are attending college...which is precisely why it's become so competitive. It was relatively easy to get into umcp in the 80s. It got harder in the 90s, and then within the last decade or so it became ridiculously hard.

And if you get an Associates from MC with a certain GPA, you automatically get into umcp. Google it.

Lastly, St. Mary's is the honors college in MD. Is it really easier to get into than umcp?

College grads are and have been declining for almost a decade. The outlook for the next decade is even worse.

Statista shows that about half of the kids in each birth year group are getting bachelor’s degrees, and that the percentage has been increasing a bit in recent years:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185157/number-of-bachelor-degrees-by-gender-since-1950/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS graduated with 2.5GPA and 920 on SAT. Got accepted into UVA playing football. It’s possible

Family of geniuses.

At least they are possibly nice people, unlike you.