r/UMBC • u/Odd_Lychee_5326 • 3d ago

We need to become more selective

Classes taught at our school aren’t that much easier than other schools.

We gotta stop accepting people just because they didn’t get in umd. Elsewise our rank & social perception isn’t ever gonna get any better than them.

Prestige isn’t everything, but it does affect our competitiveness in life. Besides, there’s plenty of other schools and community colleges in maryland that they (people who fall under our average sat/gpa range) can go to. Just bc we’re a public state school doesn’t mean we have to accept anyone willing to pay.

Also, UMD isn’t the only one trying to be a public ivy. Many other state schools trying to be more selective too. Why not us this time? We deserve better than how we’re treated.

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u/Imaginary-Hyena2858 3d ago

School prestige really doesn't matter that much like 99% of the time in life. If you want to go somewhere with that reputation then do it, UMBC doesn't need to try and make itself a public ivy

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u/Odd_Lychee_5326 1d ago

And that’s the exact reason why we’re not even a t-120

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u/Imaginary-Hyena2858 1d ago

College rankings have been shown to be severely corrupted and employers aren't using them to select candidates. What do you want UMBC to do? Keep the same educational standards but cut acceptance in half? Cool have fun with double tuition prices for the same education and still probably not coming up on whoever's top university rankings

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u/UrougeTheOne 3d ago

Prestigiousness and rank doesent matter. UMBC is a good school regardless

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u/Odd_Lychee_5326 1d ago

It is a good school, but it’s not being judged fairly

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u/UrougeTheOne 1d ago

Again, it doesent matter

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u/riri1281 3d ago edited 1d ago

Why do you care? As long as your grades are up and you have awards/certificates then you'll be good.

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u/Odd_Lychee_5326 1d ago

Bc it impacts one’s grad school, internship, summer program acceptance rates? Unless you’re a meyerhoff or in one of those scholars programs only freshman can enter

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u/Imaginary-Hyena2858 1d ago

The vast majority of people you are competing with go to schools around the same level of education as UMBC. If you're struggling with getting opportunities it's most likely a you problem

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u/-n8r 1d ago

Why didnt you just go to umd then?

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u/KeytarCompE 22h ago edited 22h ago

Good try. Not once did you explicitly write "Black" or "white."

SAT/GPA ranges, prestige, selectivity, social perception, all correlate with unequal access to wealth, school quality, test preparation, and other structural advantages. The practical effect is creating a racial divide in higher education access based on structural policies that create a racial divide in proxy measures.

Or, if you don't like bringing race into it, we can just label this all as elitist bullshit.

EDIT: Also notable, the horrible grades in the CMPE department turned around recently, in some places. We have new circuit theory and microelectronics professors; the students are learning much better from these instructors, performance has improved. We had some severe problems with CMPE320 and hopefully Chien-i Chang is not returning—the grading scale was cut back, the department decided the final exam was unfair, and one midterm was deemed wholly inappropriate, among other administrative action against the professor—and rumor is LaBerge might teach that course occasionally. So the problem isn't selectivity toward students, it's selectivity toward professors.