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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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! [/quote]

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?[/quote]

Again, you would want the demonstrated interest to back this up. Russian lit major should have done some study abroad in Russian or at least an intensive language camp, maybe serving as a counselor. Classics major can take national Latin exams and serve as a reenactor in some Roman regiment.[/quote]

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