Anonymous wrote:Rejected, but dc isn’t upset. It was not a top choice and they have much better options elsewhere for their intended major. Only applied because we’re in state.

So UMD figured that out and protected their yield

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected.

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays?

Biology is a popular subject due to premed.

Would you mind sharing the high stats that are rejected?

My son’s MoCo high school college counselor said a SAT score of 1500+ (w/ top grades and high rigor for GPA obviously) should be safe for UMD. His school had 20-25% of kids getting in UMD couple of years ago, but that % was cut half last year!

I just saw the examples here. For example:

Subject: UMD decision 2026
Anonymous
Rejected for Biology major. Good MCPS high school. 4.8 weighted GPA, several 5s and 4s on AP exams. Multiple character awards for varsity sports. Accepted into Virginia Tech. Rejection is redirection!

Not sure about his SAT. But GPA is definitely good enough. I know a kid in MCPS who got into ED Cornell, 3.8ish UW, 4.6W, SAT 1510. No national award.

Good MCPS sounds like it is probably a school where the cutoff is higher since they don’t want to overload on kids from one school. It may be that test optional is less test optional from those schools since they will have so many high stats kids applying. Also “several APs” is kind of vague. This GPA can be achieved by just honors classes and no AP classes. That is to say, this amount of detail in and of itself doesn’t by definition mean this person is in the top 1/4 of kids from their HS who are applying.

A high stats kids from Whitman getting declined would be very different from a high stats kids from Paint Branch being declined.

Now, we can debate all we want on whether the bar at Whitman should be higher than the bar at Watkins Mill, but at this point it seems relatively established that it is.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with Maryland is there is no real second uni to fall back on. Towson and um c seem like a big step down. Looks like oos for us.

Yup. Wish we had a Maryland State or Maryland Tech!

You realize UM (BC) is a Univ of Maryland, right? It's a UMD located in a different county. So it's a step UP from what would be a MD State if MD had a MD State. And, UMBC is marketed as a good school for STEM maybe not at the caliber of VA Tech tho that's debatable, perhaps. What if it was an easy name change? Towson's name changed to Maryland State. Would more students apply and attend if accepted?

UMBC and Virginia Tech is not debatable. UMBC is debatable with George Mason. We moved from Maryland to Virginia when kids were young. College wasn't primary reason, but it was a pro at the time for the move. UMD is a great school, but if you don't get in, no great backups like Virginia.

Why? How so?

Big fight on Rt 1 last night had to be broken up by PG County police. And this happens fairly regularly.

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected.

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays?

My child knows a kid at her high school with an UNWEIGHTED GPA OF ONLY 3.0, WHO DID "SOME" EC, AND GOT IN! My child and her good friend with WAY better stats, but NO EC, were rejected. I do believe the kid who was accepted with the lower GPA will struggle there.

Not white?

Anonymous wrote:Rejected for Biology major. Good MCPS high school. 4.8 weighted GPA, several 5s and 4s on AP exams. Multiple character awards for varsity sports. Accepted into Virginia Tech. Rejection is redirection!

White?

This is a trend: highly qualified/overqualified kids from mcps shut out. It prompted a scandal last year that included a professor to needlessly escalate it.

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected.

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays?

My child knows a kid at her high school with an UNWEIGHTED GPA OF ONLY 3.0, WHO DID "SOME" EC, AND GOT IN! My child and her good friend with WAY better stats, but NO EC, were rejected. I do believe the kid who was accepted with the lower GPA will struggle there.

I don't know why some ones apply for schools far beyond their abilities. Not sour grape. If my average kid was admitted to MIT, I will suggest him not to go because I am afraid that he can't graduate.

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected.

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays?

Biology is a popular subject due to premed.

Would you mind sharing the high stats that are rejected?

My son’s MoCo high school college counselor said a SAT score of 1500+ (w/ top grades and high rigor for GPA obviously) should be safe for UMD. His school had 20-25% of kids getting in UMD couple of years ago, but that % was cut half last year!

I just saw the examples here. For example:

Subject: UMD decision 2026
Anonymous
Rejected for Biology major. Good MCPS high school. 4.8 weighted GPA, several 5s and 4s on AP exams. Multiple character awards for varsity sports. Accepted into Virginia Tech. Rejection is redirection!

Not sure about his SAT. But GPA is definitely good enough. I know a kid in MCPS who got into ED Cornell, 3.8ish UW, 4.6W, SAT 1510. No national award.

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected.

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays?

Biology is a popular subject due to premed.

Would you mind sharing the high stats that are rejected?

My son’s MoCo high school college counselor said a SAT score of 1500+ (w/ top grades and high rigor for GPA obviously) should be safe for UMD. His school had 20-25% of kids getting in UMD couple of years ago, but that % was cut half last year!

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected.

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays?

My child knows a kid at her high school with an UNWEIGHTED GPA OF ONLY 3.0, WHO DID "SOME" EC, AND GOT IN! My child and her good friend with WAY better stats, but NO EC, were rejected. I do believe the kid who was accepted with the lower GPA will struggle there.

Anonymous wrote:W school: CS major but admitted Freshman Connection - so no CS.

3.87 uw
4.81 w
33 act

highest math: MV

Just curious. Does it mean that you choose another major to start in Fall? If it is CS, I wouldn't mind Freshmen Connection. Half a year is nothing in the whole career life.

Anonymous wrote:The acceptances seem so random. Some lower stats accepted while higher are rejected.

Same feeling. Especially some high-stat rejections are not in engineering/CS, like Biology. Hard to say. Does UMD also value EC more nowadays?

I will be curious to learn if they are favoring out of state applicants rather than in state applicants.

Rejected for Biology major. Good MCPS high school. 4.8 weighted GPA, several 5s and 4s on AP exams. Multiple character awards for varsity sports. Accepted into Virginia Tech. Rejection is redirection!

UMCP has old, gross housing.

ICYMI: they just shut down the campus due to lack of heat and water in the prehistoric dorms.

And be sure to google recent criminal activity on Route 1. I personally know of two students who were assaulted, and I don’t even have student on campus.

Signed,

Terp alum who still attends sporting events but thinks the campus needs an upgrade