UMD Rejections

[Anonymous]

I know of an in state girl with 4.0 UW from private that got rejected

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UMD claims they don’t consider major in determining acceptance. Once accepted, stats are compared against other applicants to determine if a student is accepted into a limited enrollment major or L&S. However, I’ve always suspected that’s not completely true as most of the high stats applicants we know who weren’t accepted were applying CS, engineering or business. And we know quite a few! Also, I have a tough time believing they won’t jump at an applicant who picks a major that’s underenrolled. Still, officially choosing L&S or an unpopular major isn’t supposed to help.

I have 2 Terps. One was very strong and accepted directly to business. One was borderline and accepted to L&S for freshman connection. We know of a recent freshman connection admit who applied as a reach and didn’t have the stats who got in and some ridiculously strong kids from our HS who were straight out rejected. Like all schools, there are no guarantees. But being OOS should help. My youngest who is a long shot dreams that he will get lucky and the randomness of admissions gives him hope. Good luck to your child!

If UMD told students that their major matters when they are applying, they would get a lot more insincere applicants. I honestly don't know anyone who has applied as a high-stats Russian literature major, but I can only imagine that UMD would be very foolish to turn down such a candidate. It could be the case that we all know rejected business, CS, and engineering majors because there are more of them, but if there really is a 1500, 4.6WGPA classics major who has gotten rejected, you would think that someone somewhere would have heard of such a kid.

OP, does your school district have ridiculously high weighted GPA's like Montgomery County has?

It's a game people do play. But the result could end up being you cannot get into the major you want, so what is the point. I've never understood the applying directly to the major---I want my kids at a school where they can change to almost any major they want (I get that nursing will be Direct admit). If my kid decides they don't want chem after freshman year, I'd like them to be able to easily become an engineer or business major or CS or any other major without worries of getting into the "program"

those majors are very difficult. what good is changing major if your kid can't hack it?

[Anonymous]

It is harder to get into Maryland from out of state. It’s much easier as an in state student to get in. It doesn’t matter what major you apply to. UMD accepts kids to the university first and then considers majors. Only kids who don’t get into limited enrollment programs are put into Letters and Sciences. Generally they take gateway courses for their intended major and transfer in the next year. No big deal.