Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 20:45     Subject: UMD EA Results
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Anonymous wrote:To answer several persistent questions...

Honors>>>>Scholars>>other stuff

Money comes later (Mid-late Feb?) but don't expect a lot in-state, if anything. And Honors is *not* a guarantee of money though probably better chance but some non Honors admits get money too. BK, is, (I think) from Honors admits only however.

Honors is worthwhile if just for the housing and you may find it useful generally too. UH and Aces have the best housing and UH housing (PC and JW) is more convenient than ACES (PF Hall). There are other perfectly fine dorms too if you aren't Honors or are in other Honors programs. UH is easily the biggest Honors program, its the default, least specialized) but best housing and most class options.

There are also Honors versions of some key classes available only to Honors kids. Calculus, for example, and at least in that, all class hours are with the instructor in smaller classes. No discussion section with a TA, no huge lecture hall. Note, many TAs are fantastic, not trying to be critical.

Other programs (Scholars, etc) can be good opportunities but consider the cost (in time/effort): benefit analysis. Consider it even with Honors. Its 15 Credits in Honors. Is the payoff worth it? With the housing, yes, imo. Absent that...maybe.

FC is no big deal. In fact, kids I know like it. Don't view it as a failure. Look at some of the kids who didn't get in...its just a way for them to take more of the kids they should have taken in the first place...

Comp Sci..it will be much harder to declare CS for anyone not admitted directly. Not impossible but I would say do not count on it. Up til now, changing to CS has been fairly easy. Not easy anymore. Have a plan B or go somewhere else.

Thanks for the pertinent info. Does Honors guarantee housing for 4 yrs?

No most of the programs are 2 years. Varies by program. Info on website


That is inaccurate. Even if a program is 2 years, honors students are guaranteed 4 years of housing on campus. However, I don’t know any UMD student that stayed on campus 4 years. They all move off campus.


I made the mistake of checking a UMD Facebook group today. It wasn't even about housing. Except it was. Housing was all it was. Grim, tiny rooms in cheap apartment complexes in Greenbelt. Parking lots and highways. 1,000 a month to live with four roommates like you're in an exurban dystopia. What fun.

Huh? Thousands of student live within a half mile of campus. Something like 10 apartment complexes within walking distance.


Grim tiny rooms next to a highway in College Park? Where do I sign?


Maybe it’s time for your snowflake to live their own life?


Y'all are so defensive about a school no one else in the country cares about. I just think it's sad to see so many highly intelligent kids with so much potential pigeonholed into such narrow boxes in such an ugly provincial place.


Geez. You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. No one gives a crap about what you think.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 20:31     Subject: UMD EA Results
Umd does not take major of interest in to account when making admissions. The collage of arts and humanities, school of journalism, etc. wishes they would.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 20:26     Subject: UMD EA Results
This is incorrect based on my DS current experience - oos with merit.

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Anonymous wrote:DD got in CS honors, but not sure any merit

Congratulations! Think merit comes out later


Good to know. We are OOS hoping getting some merit to bring cost down.


Maryland doesn’t give merit to oos applicants.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 20:16     Subject: UMD EA Results
“ Rigor OF YOUR SCHOOL is critical? Can you please clarify? I hope you mean it is critical that you took the most rigorous classes at your school, and not that it is essential you went to the very best school. Some of us just have to send our children to the local high school and aren’t able to provide the very most rigorous school.”

Yes! Apologies. That means how much a student challenged themself based on what is available at their particular school. W schools, others have very high rigor as a baseline. So at those schools, you are competing more against your own classmates, by extension, for a spot than against the statewide student body.

There are some schools in Md with few or no AP classes available, for example.

However people feel about it: U of Maryland will get less diverse after the Supreme Court case. That is what Sen. Augustine’s bill attempts to counter.

A more diverse classroom is a chance to grow. There are many values that are important for learning how to contribute to this world: intellect, perspective, experience, knowledge, empathy, etc.


Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 20:15     Subject: UMD EA Results
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Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


Was UMD your DC's first choice?


From the website: UMDCP does not consider demonstrates interest in admission decisions


It's not a demonstrated interest question. When a person applies to many schools one can be a "first choice." IF the post is genuine ( could be a troll), with stats like that, the response normally is along the lines of "rejected at UMD, but since my super high stats are so....super high, I already got accepted to X college."
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 20:05     Subject: UMD EA Results
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Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


This has to be bs, I'm sorry. I hereby id this poster as a troll.

(Caveat, troll says rejected from ENGR not Umd) Did troll get into L&S?

I don't know everything but every resident kid with these stats is admitted. Does this kid have a criminal record or some other black eye on the application?


Agree. The white male notation gave it away.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 20:00     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


This has to be bs, I'm sorry. I hereby id this poster as a troll.

(Caveat, troll says rejected from ENGR not Umd) Did troll get into L&S?

I don't know everything but every resident kid with these stats is admitted. Does this kid have a criminal record or some other black eye on the application?


I don't think this is a troll, unfortunately. UMD Engineering is really difficult to get into. PP's kid probably would've gotten in if they had applied to CMNS instead of Engineering. Or maybe if they had gone to Wheaton Engineering for HS, which is the top feeder to the UMD Engineering program. It is really competitive, though. I feel bad for your DC, PP. I really do. Hopefully with those stats, they will get in somewhere awesome.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:57     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


This has to be bs, I'm sorry. I hereby id this poster as a troll.

(Caveat, troll says rejected from ENGR not Umd) Did troll get into L&S?

I don't know everything but every resident kid with these stats is admitted. Does this kid have a criminal record or some other black eye on the application?
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:54     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


You can and should appeal. It should accept one of the best in state bests.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:54     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


Was UMD your DC's first choice?


I’m sorry. I feel your pain. College admissions seems like such a crap shoot.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:49     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


Was UMD your DC's first choice?


From the website: UMDCP does not consider demonstrates interest in admission decisions
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:43     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.


Was UMD your DC's first choice?
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:40     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.

I would not have expected that either. I don’t remember it being so crazy last year.


To quote Shannon Gundy’s state senate testimony on Friday, she opposes Senate Bill 5 because ‘students who are in the top 10% of their graduating classes are primarily white and Asian.”

Our DCs will succeed elsewhere. They don’t meet Ms. Gundy’s institutional goals.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:25     Subject: UMD EA Results
Anonymous wrote:DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.

I would not have expected that either. I don’t remember it being so crazy last year.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2024 19:22     Subject: UMD EA Results
DC was rejected from UMD engineering with 1550 SAT, 4.73 GPA, national merit semifinalist, Blair magnet program, a lot of good ECs although not president of a club or anything like that. In state white male.

I never expected a rejection from UMD.