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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does UMD do this?  [/quote]

I assume it is to protect their reported stats. By admitting the lower stat kids for the spring semester they don't count in the reported statistics for Fall entrants.
I just speculating and have no actual knowledge.[/quote]
This is not the reason although this might partially be an unintended result.

The reason for it is the same as why other schools like UC Berkeley do it.

[b]At these large state schools, a large number of students graduate in the Fall semester i.e. Winter graduation. This means there's a lot of spots in the university open in the Spring, and thus Spring enrollment is lower than Fall enrollment

To keep enrollment numbers stable throughout the semesters, they allow some students to enroll in the Spring. These students may actually have higher scores than Fall-semester admits, but may have not gotten in for other reasons i.e. from an over-represented county like Montgomery county, lack of extracurriculars, etc[/b]. [/quote]

Thank you. Finally someone who actually knows what they are talking about (and is not blowing smoke out their own ass like everyone else).[/quote]

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