<p>College Class Year: 2013
Public high school
Sends some top grads to top schools
· Academic GPA: 3.6
· Ingenuity Project (9th-12th)- Provides advanced Science and Math classes
· Meritorious Scholar (9th-11th)-Honor Roll Award for the school year
Class Rank: top 25%
AP classes taken: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics, AP English Lit., AP US History</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT I Math: 630
SAT I Critical Reading: 610
SAT I Writing: 570</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
· Student Government Association (9th, 10th)- Class Representative
· Student Government Association (12th)- Treasurer
· Robotics Team (9th-11th)- Johns Hopkins University Champions (2007)
· Mock Trial (9th, 10th)
· Varsity Soccer 10th-12th (all city team-12th grade)
JV Soccer 9th
Varsity Lacrosse 9th-11th
University of Maryland (Discovering Engineering) Summer of 2008 .
100 hours of community service</p>
<p>Job Experience:
CVS Pharmacy 2007-Present
Subway Summer of 2007</p>
<p>Recommendations:Very Good
Essay:Excellent (from what i was told)
Hook:URM</p>
<p>I’d say it’s a slight reach for you to get into Maryland with these stats, unless your a minority. However, your essays/ recommendations/ niche questions might be the determining factor.</p>
<p>I’d say you’re in at UMBC, NCSU and Drexel.
Villanova is a reach, and not sure about George Mason, but a possible slight reach.</p>
<p>I am not sure that UMD looks at specific minorities instead of overall minority ratio with the best application. Remember UMD is ranked as 53rd internationally and they do get alot of foreigners which assists in their ratio.</p>
<p>Also the Supreme Court ruled many yrs ago that state universities cannot pursue affirmative action in selecting students. In other words no added points forbeing African American, Hispanic, Indian, etc over being Caucasian. The case involved UMich.</p>
<p>Hulk, the ruling is they cannot give more points for admission purposes base on race, it has nothing to do with the % they accept…in other words, be the best applicant and you will get in (also known as blind)</p>
<p>^ I know about the ruling. Like I stated, that still does happen. How is one capable of regulating who they find selective or not? You can’t. All schools strive for cohesion and diversity which amplifies the real world and further perpetuates a learning environmental of different opinions from all paths of lives.</p>
<p>In the case of UMich they were giving points to URM to the basis of their score. If you are state school receiving federal funding you will have an oversight committee that audits your acceptance and rejections. The only place you can get extra pts to overcome the gpa/SAT is the ECs and essays. However, if I recall correctly admissions stated the essays are “blind”, so unless you speak of your race, they will never know about it. Of course schools strive for diversity, but they are not going to lower their stds if they don’t have to. There is no dictum that says you need X% of hispanic, african american, chinese, japanese, indian, etc. There is a % that they want and make that their goal. Look at the stats around here, there are many individuals that can be classified as URM, with stats just as good or even greater than someone who is not.</p>
<p>I am not saying you will not get in, what I am saying is don’t use URM as the crutch to get in. Hook means something amazing that nobody else does. It use to include legacies, but that doesn’t count for much anymore…probably about the same as URM.</p>
<p>I would say for you probably in for UMCP, but not for GA Tech or NCSU. We just moved from NC and I know that for ISS you would be on the cusp. GA if I am correct has a special deal for GA residence (basically like CA) which makes competition very high.</p>
<p>You might not get added points persay, but in many colleges this is how/what college acceptance has become. Same with athletes with mediocre stats, more guys being accepted into mostly girl colleges, historically black colleges, and universities that lack minorities.</p>
<p>But you are correct, people should not use this advantage as some sort of crutch. Typically speaking, people of all groups get into colleges they are worth getting into.</p>
<p>I agree with you hulk, but the problem with UMD is they do not have any of those voids. This is a school that only accepts about 1 in 7…less for OOS. So if you are not in the top 15 -20% it starts to become a little dicey and the ECS, recs and essays start mattering more. Solo has a low gpa if it is uw and towards the bottom 50% for the SAT, which means they need more to get in.</p>
<p>^1 in 7? You must be mistaking. Their acceptance rate has been consistently in the 45-50 percentage. 1 in 7 would be on par with the likes of Harvard,Yale,etc.</p>
<p>And the fact that a fair amount of the students that attent there transferred from local community college students with guaranteed admission from their respective schools.</p>
<p>Last year it was in the news UMDCP had 28K applicants for 4K slots…that makes it 1 in 7. It made the news in March sometime about how it was the highest ever in applications…mainly because of the economic downturn many IS students were applying. Since 2005 for class of 09, the amt of applications have gone up @25% 22K in 05, up to over 28K in 07, I bet this yr it will be @30K. However, at the same time they have not increased their class size. Math works here…more applicants means lower accept rate. </p>
<p>UMD’s acceptance rate in for Class of 11 was down to 41%, overall compared to a 51% in Class of 10. Class of 12 was lower than that. It has consistently dropped over time. I am guessing for iS it will be even harder to be accepted this yr b/c of our economic issues. Lets face it every parents 529 or mutual probably lost 50% of their portfolio, so IS is looking better and better, especially if you can get into the specialty programs. Many parents will turn and say Smith IS or UVA OOS…take SMITH.</p>
<p>Transfer students are not in that pile because they are not coming in as a freshman</p>
<p>Okay let’s go with 39%…My FUBAR by looking at apps and matriculation.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter though because with ea yr the % of acceptance is decreasing. This yr is expected to be a banner yr for IS apps due to the stock market and economy.</p>
<p>Yeah I knew that 1:7 was preposterious. Either way though, they are definitely rising in the ranks. I’m pretty sure its due to alot of different influxes in the economy, war time, becoming a better uni.,etc.</p>
<p>It still remains a great school for community college students though. Alot of people that could not afford it or people that lacked the grades make an easy transition much similar to VA community colleges to UVA and whatnot.</p>