I got in blank but didn't get into blank

ucbalumnus
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:26:26 +0000

swivelneck:

My son got into places like Case Western, McGill, and Bates… but not in Maryland, which is our own state school. He would have gone to Maryland had he gotten in. He didn’t even get waitlisted. Bizarro world. He went to McGill and loves it. I somewhat understand when schools ‘protect their yield’ stats with out of state applicants, but they should never do that for an in-state student. Doing it at all is wrong, but to screw over in state applicants is wrong wrong wrong.

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1526 indicates that “level of applicant’s interest” is “not considered” at Maryland.

CWRU and Bates entries are here:
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=966
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=125

Looks like CWRU and Bates have similar HS rank profiles, but CWRU has higher SAT math and ACT ranges. Maryland’s SAT ranges look similar to those of Bates (which is test optional), but does not publish HS rank profiles. Maryland publishes a HS GPA profile showing an obviously weighted GPA average of 4.22, but neither of the others publish HS GPA profiles.

The three schools’ weightings of other admission factors like extracurriculars vary.

Did he apply to a more competitive major or division at Maryland?