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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1250+SAT, 3.0+ gpa for general administration. Higher if target more competitive majors.

Waaaaaay higher for CS. I know some with 1500 SAT get rejected for CS.

I think the 50% is something like 1460 for undeclared even these days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1250+SAT, 3.0+ gpa for general administration. Higher if target more competitive majors.

Waaaaaay higher for CS. I know some with 1500 SAT get rejected for CS.

Not way higher. Just more random.

No, it's way higher. They halved the program last year. They will now only admit 100 transfers from both internal and external, and 600 direct admit.

Two years ago, they admitted a lot more so it was a bit more random. Now they are culling the program of weak students. My DC is a junior taking high level CS classes (and math), and the weaker students are struggling big time. UMD wouldn't want to put their rep on the line by admitted students who can't keep up.

UMD INCREASED the number of direct admits from 450 to 600.
Nearly eliminating transfers has nothing to do with firstyear admissions standards.

https://undergrad.cs.umd.edu/cs-lep-faq-effective-fall-202

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1250+SAT, 3.0+ gpa for general administration. Higher if target more competitive majors.

Waaaaaay higher for CS. I know some with 1500 SAT get rejected for CS.

Not way higher. Just more random.

No, it's way higher. They halved the program last year. They will now only admit 100 transfers from both internal and external, and 600 direct admit.

Two years ago, they admitted a lot more so it was a bit more random. Now they are culling the program of weak students. My DC is a junior taking high level CS classes (and math), and the weaker students are struggling big time. UMD wouldn't want to put their rep on the line by admitted students who can't keep up.

UMD INCREASED the number of direct admits from 450 to 600.
Nearly eliminating transfers has nothing to do with firstyear admissions standards.

https://undergrad.cs.umd.edu/cs-lep-faq-effective-fall-202

Yes, I know. But, it's way more competitive now, so you need pretty high stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1250+SAT, 3.0+ gpa for general administration. Higher if target more competitive majors.

Waaaaaay higher for CS. I know some with 1500 SAT get rejected for CS.

I think the 50% is something like 1460 for undeclared even these days

50% of UMD enrollees don't even submit scores!

The 50%ile of admitted test scores is about the 75%ile of students overall.

https://irpa.umd.edu/CampusCounts/Admissions/apps_ug.pdf

[Anonymous]

The required GPA and SAT for UMD are really depends on majors. Those Limited involved majors require much higher GPA and SAT.

[Anonymous]

DD is 4.7 GPA with 13 APs and told 50/50 she would get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is 4.7 GPA with 13 APs and told 50/50 she would get in.

Major? SAT score? School district?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is 4.7 GPA with 13 APs and told 50/50 she would get in.

Who told her that? Naviance shows mostly green for my MCPS kid with a 4.7, fewer APs, and TO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1250+SAT, 3.0+ gpa for general administration. Higher if target more competitive majors.

Nope. Maybe 20 years ago

[Anonymous]

We will know in 30 days...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will know in 30 days...

Hopefully less!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will know in 30 days...

Hopefully less!

It will Friday the 31st at 5pm

[Anonymous]

https://irpa.umd.edu/CampusCounts/Admissions/apps_ug.pdf

45% admitted, 21% yield. as undesirable as ever. Does any other state flapship have such bad yield?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://irpa.umd.edu/CampusCounts/Admissions/apps_ug.pdf

45% admitted, 21% yield. as undesirable as ever. Does any other state flapship have such bad yield?

It’s an interesting situation where they admit the highest scorers who rarely want to go there and generally have much better options. Then they deny those right below (4.0 students with 5 AP’s for example) who would actually attend. I wish there was ED to show demonstrated interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://irpa.umd.edu/CampusCounts/Admissions/apps_ug.pdf

45% admitted, 21% yield. as undesirable as ever. Does any other state flapship have such bad yield?

LOL. How's Frostburg?