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Just looked up the most recent report (for fall 2025 admission) of UMD-College Park's Common Data Set.

If I read it right, these are the in-state admissions statistics:

Applied: 18487
Admitted: 8075
Enrolled: 4133

So, that's about a 44% acceptance rate for in-state applicants, and about a 51% yield rate.

For out-of-state applicants, it was:

Applied: 48614
Admitted:22143
Enrolled:2426

That's a 46% acceptance rate and a yield rate of 11%.

No surprise that in-state applicants are much more likely to enroll once admitted.

The Common Data Set report also had this info about UMD's wait list:

Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list:247

Number accepting a place on the waiting list:0

Number of wait-listed students admitted:0

If I am reading that right, that's a tiny wait list for a college the size of UMD.

Sorry, OP. Best to move on to the places where your DC was accepted.

Folks can download the Common Data Set data for UMD here: https://www.irpa.umd.edu/InstitutionalData/cds.html

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As a PP pointed out, they already have the spring admit/freshmen connect kids as well.  I'd guess if they truly ended up wanting more kids for the fall, they'd offer spots to those kids as well, so between that pool and a good sense of their yield, they probably only put kids on a wait list if they truly think they may eventually accept them, rather than some other schools that use wait lists as a soft no.[/quote]

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