Chances of getting in?!? please :)

bulletandpima
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:46:37 +0000

I agree with astro, UMD does it’s own weighting. DS’'s wgpa changed under the UMD system.

In NC, a 6.0 was given for certain courses taken at the CC while you were in hs, (basket weaving was a 4.0, but if you took a math course that was above the AP, which was 5.0, they gave a 6.0 for it).

Also, realize that UMD will look at the course an honors at a school in TN might be deemed by UMD as a STD. If you ever look at the sealed transcript sent to colleges it will be very enlightening to you. In that envelope contains every SAT you ever took, the date, your shot records, their grading scale, the school profile, etc. It is not just a record of your classes, EC’s, gpa and rank. Even in the docs will be a report regarding your school, i.e. School of Excellence, Blue Ribbon, % of students that go IVY, Private, IS, OOS, Community, Technical, none.

I have stated this before, but will state it again, UMD also looks at the school. You can have a 4.0 gpa, #1 in rank, class valedictorian, but if the school is not as competitive as the person who has a 3.7, top 15%, you may find that they got in and you don’t. Many of us have been here for yrs and read the chance me threads, there are ones that we go in and say “IN”, only for them to get the “AT THIS TIME” letter. UMD is very large, and when they have close to 30K applicants, they need to sort piles very quickly. The first sorting will be STAT driven, GPA, SAT and IS/OOS. From there they start whittling down.

FYI, I found out about the transcript thing because I ordered one for myself. After that I spoke to the GC at DS’s HS. They explained to me why the HS info was on it, and how it would impact our child. For example, he was ranked top 10% in the HS, but the problem was only 4% went Ivy, which would mean to UMD that the HS was not as strenuous as a school that had the top 15% go IVY. He did get in from OOS, received a merit scholarship and Scholars.