UMD in-state

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Anonymous wrote:UMD admits a lot of lower stats kids second semester.
That way the lower stats aren't computed in their averages. The kids attend the first semester, but take evening classes. (I can't remember what this program is called.)

Stony Brook has ZERO tuition for majority of NY residents and the high income full pay the tuition is still 1/2 of UMD or VA state schools

Stem wise dollar for dollar it wins

DD had very high stats and got accepted to CS at UMD, but not honors, which disappointed her. She attends OOS where she got a full ride.

Lots of her classmates are at UMD, with mixed feelings about it. The worst complaint I hear from parents is about housing, which is very limited at UMD, and the huge classes are a problem in the first couple years.

Or maybe they are admitting for Spring to give more kids a chance. IMO public schools are playing less games than private colleges.

State schools play fewer games than private about full pay students, but certainly aren’t straight forward. I have been told that my 3.91/4.51, 7 AP child has zero chance of getting into UMD because she is coming from Churchill and they only accept the high of the high students with perfect scores, yet her same stats coming from almost any other high school would at least give her a real good chance. It’s really frustrating as we are one of the struggling families who can’t afford to go out of state or pay for tutors or college counseling so she is being compared to kids with many greater advantages just because of where we are zoned.

I don't see any reason why you daughter won't get in. You are giving UMD way more credit that it is due. At the end of the day, it's a mediocre state school. I get the lack of high quality choice in MD when it comes to publics and some folks need to be able to pay in-state but.. your daughter, given her great profile, will be fine wherever she goes. A lot of OOS schools would have given her good financial aid to make the cost close to what you'd have paid in-state MD.

My DS (Fairfax county public; with way lower stats that your DD) has been admitted to pretty much all the second-tier schools in the UMD range (Penn State, Pitt, Ohio State, etc.) and decent merit money from a few. Your daughter would hit it out of the park at all these places with admissions and merit.

Cute. How did you come to this conclusion?

The same way I figured the sky is blue.

The only state schools within 500 miles of the DCUM crowd that could objectively be called stronger academically than UMD are UVA, UNC, and UMich. Particularly if we are talking STEM.

UMD is likely stronger than UVA in STEM. But don't forget Rutgers, NC State and OSU. Quite strong in STEM AND other areas. Also, not everything is about STEM.

STEM is the rigorous academics. UMD is great at the hard stuff. Uva better at the easy stuff with multiple choice tests.

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Anonymous wrote:DD has applied from an W school and as we await the results next month, I have questions! What are they looking for? Do they only want high stats? Are they looking for a well rounded student? I’ve heard over and over again how hard it is to get entry, so I’m not expecting anything (but I am hopeful). I just want to know if there’s any chance for the average/high kid- the one who hasn’t taken the most rigor and has gotten a couple of B’s.

Please make sure to join the prospective parent group for UMD on FB - they can help answer your questions and you'll know when things are happening.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/umdparentsprospective

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Anonymous wrote:The people who have said that how hard it is to get into UMD depends what major you are applying for are dead wrong. UMD first admits students to the school without consideration of their major. Once the student is admitted, their applications are then considered by the specific school with their major. If the student applies to a limited enrollment program like engineering, for example, they might get in as a direct admit to engineering or they will be put into Letters and Sciences. If they are put in L &S, they can take the gateway classes to make them eligible to transfer into the engineering school, or biology or the other limited enrollment programs. Note that it will be much more difficult to transfer into the computer science major starting next fall. So if students don’t get directly admitted into CS, the likelihood of being able to transfer in after gateway classes will be much slimmer than in the past.

This is correct information. It was clear from some earlier posts that people don't really understand how UMD works. They are looking holistically at applications - but rigor and grades do mean a lot. First they will decide if your student is admitted to the school, then they will decide if they are placed into their major or into Letters and Sciences (undeclared).