Anonymous wrote:Has anyone toured St. Mary’s? DD is a junior and is interested. She is a strong candidate for UMD but could participate in her sport at St Mary’s and I thinks he’d thrive at a small school.

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Lot of kids from our mcps high school going here.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone toured St. Mary’s? DD is a junior and is interested. She is a strong candidate for UMD but could participate in her sport at St Mary’s and I thinks he’d thrive at a small school.

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I think this is going to be more and more true as UMD rejects more and more kids. I am interested in seeing the data in coming years for Towson - if they get more selective because they have high achieving kids who didn't make the UMD cut applying.

I think the same goes for UMBC.

Agree. Kind of weird that my 4.0 kid and 3.0 kid may end up at the same school. One of them will not be happy about it.

This. My kid has a 4.2 (AP/IB/DE) captain of varsity sport, blah blah and didn't get into UMD so is going to Towson (we need instate tuition - he applied to a few OOS options and the nearest any of them came to instate costs after merit was about $10k more/year which we could not do. His BFF barely has a 3.0 and pretty much skated by in HS and not doing anything extra is also going to Towson. My kid "only" got $2000 in merit so there wasn't really even a significant cost difference.

OP here- is starting in the fall or there now? If he is there I am curious about the experience?

PP here with the kid with the blah blah blah...He starts Towson in the fall.

OP here. Good luck! I hope it is a good experience. I really liked our tour there. FWIW In a previous job I worked with a number of people in finance who got their accounting degrees there and went on to be CEOs of large companies. Not sure my kid will be interested in that but I do think it is a respected degree for recruiting in the area.

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Your kid could go to community college for the first semester and then try to get in for second semester.

Pretty sure there is a direct admit program from CC.

There is a direct admit from our CC after completion of X number of credits.
It's the path that my kid is planning on taking.

DS did that and starting at UMD this fall (he is bringing in ~40 credits). It was super easy as he only had to have 3.0 GPA at CC to qualify for guaranteed admission. He is going to have to pick up his pace as I imagine workload is much heavier at UMD. He pretty much coasted through his year at CC. I am a little worried, but there aren't many other options in MD and we can only pay in-state.

Congrats to your DS! Your instincts are correct - DD just finished her first year and reports that they have real grades at UMD (as opposed to some recent news about schools where 80% of grades are A and A-). That said, don’t let DS get discouraged if it takes work because it genuinely takes work there!

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Anonymous wrote:Towson

I think this is going to be more and more true as UMD rejects more and more kids. I am interested in seeing the data in coming years for Towson - if they get more selective because they have high achieving kids who didn't make the UMD cut applying.

I think the same goes for UMBC.

Agree. Kind of weird that my 4.0 kid and 3.0 kid may end up at the same school. One of them will not be happy about it.

This. My kid has a 4.2 (AP/IB/DE) captain of varsity sport, blah blah and didn't get into UMD so is going to Towson (we need instate tuition - he applied to a few OOS options and the nearest any of them came to instate costs after merit was about $10k more/year which we could not do. His BFF barely has a 3.0 and pretty much skated by in HS and not doing anything extra is also going to Towson. My kid "only" got $2000 in merit so there wasn't really even a significant cost difference.

OP here- is starting in the fall or there now? If he is there I am curious about the experience?

PP here with the kid with the blah blah blah...He starts Towson in the fall.

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Your kid could go to community college for the first semester and then try to get in for second semester.

Pretty sure there is a direct admit program from CC.

There is a direct admit from our CC after completion of X number of credits.
It's the path that my kid is planning on taking.

DS did that and starting at UMD this fall (he is bringing in ~40 credits). It was super easy as he only had to have 3.0 GPA at CC to qualify for guaranteed admission. He is going to have to pick up his pace as I imagine workload is much heavier at UMD. He pretty much coasted through his year at CC. I am a little worried, but there aren't many other options in MD and we can only pay in-state.

Thanks for sharing. Which CC? Also is it really “direct admit”? What is the application process like to transfer and did you need to tell the CC when you enrolled so they can recommend specific classes?

https://admissions.umd.edu/apply/maryland-transfer-advantage-program

He went to MC and the process was very straightforward. He enrolled in MTAP his first semester. It is a direct admit. He had to fill out transfer application by early action deadline, but it was just a formality. As long as his GPA is 3.0+ and he has 30+ credits and satisfies math/English requirements he is admitted. Link above has the process outlined.

Super helpful- we’ll look into it. Did he take 30 credits in one year? Also wondering how APs factor in. Like do you have to take the general ed classes if you were going to use AP credit?

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Your kid could go to community college for the first semester and then try to get in for second semester.

Pretty sure there is a direct admit program from CC.

There is a direct admit from our CC after completion of X number of credits.
It's the path that my kid is planning on taking.

DS did that and starting at UMD this fall (he is bringing in ~40 credits). It was super easy as he only had to have 3.0 GPA at CC to qualify for guaranteed admission. He is going to have to pick up his pace as I imagine workload is much heavier at UMD. He pretty much coasted through his year at CC. I am a little worried, but there aren't many other options in MD and we can only pay in-state.

Thanks for sharing. Which CC? Also is it really “direct admit”? What is the application process like to transfer and did you need to tell the CC when you enrolled so they can recommend specific classes?

https://admissions.umd.edu/apply/maryland-transfer-advantage-program

He went to MC and the process was very straightforward. He enrolled in MTAP his first semester. It is a direct admit. He had to fill out transfer application by early action deadline, but it was just a formality. As long as his GPA is 3.0+ and he has 30+ credits and satisfies math/English requirements he is admitted. Link above has the process outlined.