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Anonymous wrote:UMD with a 64% acceptance rate. Yikes. Let's keep it out of the "selective" discussion, ok? It's a solid Big State U. But not even close to elite.

Whoever said it was elite?

Exactly.

UMD is clearly not elite. It's not even selective, as these acceptance rates confirm. But there seems to be a large contingent of UMD boosters on DCUM who keep talking about how hard it is to get into now, how it's not a safety anymore, etc. They should stop with the nonsense and shenanigans.

Anonymous wrote:Goodness, those Arlington results are near brutal.

For HYP, yes, but I am not sure percentage wise for the other univ. Are they really that much worse?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

There is a big gap between what is defined as moderate income and the ability for a family to afford 70k in tuition. We are a 200K HHI family offered no aid from Ivies with two kids being in college (one with some merit aid). Took UMDs honors program/merit aid instead for Blair magnet kid. Perhaps we should not have saved anything.

+1 I read somewhere that many of these institutions don't like to admit students whose families are in the doughnut whole -- people like ^PP with $200K HHI - because those students won't get any aid and at the same time, the families can't afford the full tuition.

I read somewhere that what you read somewhere is complete bunk.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing to see the % of kids from Whitman applying to HBCU compared to the others. Talk about lack of diversity.

Whitman is not a very diverse school, but not sure the percentage of kids applying to HBCUs tells you much of anything. My kids’ Black friends at Whitman primarily applied to ivies and other top 20 universities and top SLACs. Most did extremely well with admissions outcomes at top schools. Is there a stat out there that shows what percentage of Black students apply to HBCUs regionally or nationally?

Ya think?

<5% Black

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

There is a big gap between what is defined as moderate income and the ability for a family to afford 70k in tuition. We are a 200K HHI family offered no aid from Ivies with two kids being in college (one with some merit aid). Took UMDs honors program/merit aid instead for Blair magnet kid. Perhaps we should not have saved anything.

+1 I read somewhere that many of these institutions don't like to admit students whose families are in the doughnut whole -- people like ^PP with $200K HHI - because those students won't get any aid and at the same time, the families can't afford the full tuition.

Anonymous wrote:Amazing to see the % of kids from Whitman applying to HBCU compared to the others. Talk about lack of diversity.

Whitman is not a very diverse school, but not sure the percentage of kids applying to HBCUs tells you much of anything. My kids’ Black friends at Whitman primarily applied to ivies and other top 20 universities and top SLACs. Most did extremely well with admissions outcomes at top schools. Is there a stat out there that shows what percentage of Black students apply to HBCUs regionally or nationally?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Cute story. But even here in the back of the class I can see that the stats don’t support your argument.

57 kids from Blair applied and 2 were accepted at MIT.

26 and 3 for Wootton and 17 and 3 for Walter Johnson.

It’s not that they weren’t applying - they didn’t get in.

Would you like to try again?

MIT does not take more than a few from a particular school regardless of how many apply. Everyone knows getting in to top schools from Blair and RMIB is really hard because of the competition.

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They took 11 kids from Blair two years ago, so, please, try again.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

There is a big gap between what is defined as moderate income and the ability for a family to afford 70k in tuition. We are a 200K HHI family offered no aid from Ivies with two kids being in college (one with some merit aid). Took UMDs honors program/merit aid instead for Blair magnet kid. Perhaps we should not have saved anything.

“From Ivies”? Or from Harvard, Yale and/or Princeton? They’re not at all the same when it comes to waiving tuition for accepted students

Princeton currently gives free tuition to families with a HHI of under 65K...that is pretty moderate for DC area families.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing to see the % of kids from Whitman applying to HBCU compared to the others. Talk about lack of diversity.

Can you clarify your point?

Take a look at the HBCU's for the schools listed and see what the numbers are from Whiteman vs. the more diverse schools.

Not every thread is about race

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing to see the % of kids from Whitman applying to HBCU compared to the others. Talk about lack of diversity.

Can you clarify your point?

Take a look at the HBCU's for the schools listed and see what the numbers are from Whiteman vs. the more diverse schools.

I think many in the upper middle class think paying 80k per year for undergrad is for suckers. UMD honors even without scholarship will save 200k over 4 years. I’d rather give that to my DD for grad school or for a house.

Anonymous wrote:Amazing to see the % of kids from Whitman applying to HBCU compared to the others. Talk about lack of diversity.

Can you clarify your point?

Amazing to see the % of kids from Whitman applying to HBCU compared to the others. Talk about lack of diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Yeah - just not true.

HYP is essentially free for moderate income families. I thought everyone knew this by now?

Who said anything about moderate income? I'm referring to upper middle class, but not rich. Many Blair families cannot pay $80K/year/kid for undergraduate education.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that Wootton and Walter Johnson had more MIT acceptances each than Blair.

Once again, for those of you in the back: Half of the Blair magnet class goes to UMD-CP every year, and it's not because they cannot get into HYP and MIT. It's because their families cannot afford to pay for those schools, and/or because they prefer to save their money for graduate or professional school.

Cute story. But even here in the back of the class I can see that the stats don’t support your argument.

57 kids from Blair applied and 2 were accepted at MIT.

26 and 3 for Wootton and 17 and 3 for Walter Johnson.

It’s not that they weren’t applying - they didn’t get in.

Would you like to try again?

MIT does not take more than a few from a particular school regardless of how many apply. Everyone knows getting in to top schools from Blair and RMIB is really hard because of the competition.

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