Every year I forget that our local MCPS high school won't be included.

You can't use these numbers to calculate acceptance rates (or yield rates) because the "accepted" column systemically undercounts (so actual acceptance rates are higher than indicated by this table and actual yield rates are lower--but it's not possible to determine by how much). The "applied" and "attending" columns are quite accurate because they rely on real data that the schools have. The "accepted" column, though, relies on kids going back into the system to tick the "accepted" box--which there's no need to do for any school other than the one they actually decide to attend. A lot of kids actually tick that box for a lot of schools, of course, but they don't all tick that box for all the schools that accepted them. How big is the undercount? How much does it vary from school to school? How much is it offset by kids ticking the box for schools that haven't actually accepted them? All impossible to know.

Anonymous wrote:When will they learn to freeze epanes for scrolling tables!

They want to sell magazines!

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Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

BCC had a weirdly good year with Vanderbilt ED. I was talking to parents about this and it surprised everyone because the kids weren't even top kids and it's never happened like this before.

Dartmouth from Bethesda was actually 4%. And Columbia was 3% (national rate 4 or 5%)

Vandy likes school leadership AND obscure majors (even though ofc no one is admitting by major).....

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Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

BCC had a weirdly good year with Vanderbilt ED. I was talking to parents about this and it surprised everyone because the kids weren't even top kids and it's never happened like this before.

Dartmouth from Bethesda was actually 4%. And Columbia was 3% (national rate 4 or 5%)

BCC had roughly 600 kids graduate last year. As a BCC parent, I can assure you there is virtually no chance any one parent or small group of parents knows all these kids, let alone what their stats and ECs are. Anyone suggesting that they can speak to what "surprised everyone" in such a large and diverse school is by that very statement making clear their statement can't be relied upon. My parent group (which doesn't include any of the Vandy kids) in fact was just merely impressed by those kids and reminded of how big a school it is, and how variable the number of admitted kids is from one year to the next. Please remember that some of those families may read DCUM and that it's just wrong to insult identifiable kids on this forum, especially if you don't have actual facts and knowledge to back them up.

Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

Why would you avoid a school because there's no geography bump?

Anyway, there are likely factors at work here that are too hidden to understand at surface level.

Anonymous wrote:I don't see a lot of kids choosing SEC or southern schools unlike Annoying Frat guy's claim. Top OOS schools where kids are attending are Ohio State, Penn State, VT, Pitt, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado Boulder, GW, American.

Marylanders and Virginians may be different. The invisible border still exists.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

I know so many Emory grads in the DMV, I thought it would be higher.

yep. the Emory kids from our school were all middle-of-the-pack legacies. Lots of them around here.

So they're only accepting legacies it seems. Yeild is low too.

My takeaway is that the 3 wealthiest schools, BCC, Whitman and Churchill, did very well at schools where full pay is a hook.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Churchill was impressive!

A bit misleading at Churchill. UMD screwed Churchill hard this year. My kid with a 4.7 GPA and 13 APs could not get in even on wait list or delayed program. It skewed it a bit. A lot of those kids who wanted UMD to go instate had to go out of state. And with those GPAs they got into good schools. My kid I said if I am paying full freight pick the best school possible OOS.

And it went other way. My kid has two friends with almost a 4.8 WGPA who at at MoCo community college as parents did not want to pay OOS tuition and did not get into UMD. They plan to transfer over. My kids friends got into a bunch of great schools and still at MoCo. I am like she got into Pitt, Penn, American, NYU, and going to MoCo? Yep parents wont pay. So that also makes list look weird.

Include Blair for UMD. Went from almost 50% acceptance rate to 30%. My child with similar stats (submitted ACT scores) was also denied.

Meanwhile, in another thread where UMD is on a list of schools, people are assuming those schools are easy acceptances...

College counselor said UMD has grown concerned about its yield for rankings purposes. Don’t know if that’s true but it would explain not admitting high achievers, thinking they can and will go elsewhere (Hopkins, cmu etc). But Honors College at UmD is a great home for kids like that!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

I know so many Emory grads in the DMV, I thought it would be higher.

yep. the Emory kids from our school were all middle-of-the-pack legacies. Lots of them around here.

Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

I know so many Emory grads in the DMV, I thought it would be higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

Georgia Tech 12%

Georgia Tech 9% OOS Overall 12% Bethesda

Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

Georgia Tech 12%

Anonymous wrote:Emory Overall including Oxford 14%, Bethesda 16%
WashU Overall 12%, Bethesda 14%
Vanderbilt Overall 5%, Bethesda 15%
Rice Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%
CMU Overall 12%, Bethesda 10%
Dartmouth Overall 6%, Bethesda 5%
Nyu Overall 8%, Bethesda 16%

So, if you live in the area you know what schools to possibly aim for to increase your chances. I would avoid CMU and Dartmouth.

BCC had a weirdly good year with Vanderbilt ED. I was talking to parents about this and it surprised everyone because the kids weren't even top kids and it's never happened like this before.

Dartmouth from Bethesda was actually 4%. And Columbia was 3% (national rate 4 or 5%)