Admitted Park Scholars and we are in state but it says out of state tuition? Looks like they made an error?

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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.

Not true. UMD does give merit to OOS students. Mine got the presidential scholarship last year and we are VA residents.

When is the presidential scholarship (or any merit scholarship) announced?

Last year I believe it was around February 18th. For CS majors, https://cmns.umd.edu/undergraduate/current-students/scholarships

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Anonymous wrote:DD admitted into FIRE. Any insights on that program?

+1 and we’ve never heard of it.

UMD has a number of LLPs. Honors (6-7 programs within), FIRE. Carillon etc. All on their website.

If you got accepted to FIRE or Carillion does that mean you didn’t get accepted to the Honors College?

yes... Honors College > Scholars Program > Carillon Scholars > admitted > freshman connection/spring enrollment

Thank you. We’re a bit bummed DD didn’t get Honors College as she was accepted into that everywhere else she applied. DS didn’t want it so he’s just happy he got in period.

Alum here and I would say Honors wasn't all that it's cracked up to be. Of course it's nice to have on the resume but will not affect her UMD experience by much if she is a high achiever still. DD will make friends in her dorm and major too.

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the UMD 2028 FB page. Feel so badly for some of the posters. Their kids had dynamite scores, state residents and didn’t get accepted. Even the kids of alumni didn’t get in. My kid didn’t want to go to UMD, but I would have been furious as a tax payer.

State residents do deserve acceptance. There is no rhyme or reason to UMD acceptances.

UMD can't accept every single applicant from MD.

Also, as they say, "it's not the university of montgomery county", if that's where you're from.

UMD is hard to get into now, and they don't care about legacy.

OOS needs to be capped. . Similar to UNC - Chapel Hill. Terrible.

Oos is capped at umd. They have usually 4500 fall freshman. There’s only so much room unfortunately.

Most of MD’s population is in central MD. This is the most logical place for the majority of local kids who aren’t wealthy to want to end up. Maybe if UMBC and TU offered more majors, more local kids would want to attend.

I hate feeling like my family got lucky when I know my kids worked so hard the past 4 years or longer, but I do feel like at least six just as deserving seniors I know are left shell-shocked tonight.

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Anonymous wrote:DS got admitted to Scholars college. Are scholarships meant only for Honors college admits?

I think the merit scholarships are only for honors or Banneker Key students. DS is a freshman at UMD in College Park Scholars. He didn’t get any merit but he loves his LLP. He’s in ETE. There are departmental scholarships that they can apply to. DS got an invitation to apply for scholarship offered by his major over the summer and he got one.

My current freshman CS major is not in honors or BK. They got a scholarship OOS. 5k plus 1k for national 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.

Not true. UMD does give merit to OOS students. Mine got the presidential scholarship last year and we are VA residents.

When is the presidential scholarship (or any merit scholarship) announced?

Anonymous wrote:DS in for CS! plus Honors college

Whew! What a relief!

What is the Honors college? We just got admission letter. Is the Honors college for specific majors?

Also, do they announce any merit scholarships with the admission letter or separately. We are OOS.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected. 3.78 unweighted.

Rejected here too. 3.97 unweighted. 4.75 weighted. Solid application (two varsity sports, captain of 1, 500+ community service hours, awards won, other clubs) Test Optional

oo sorry - is this from mcps?

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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.

Not true. UMD does give merit to OOS students. Mine got the presidential scholarship last year and we are VA residents.

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the UMD 2028 FB page. Feel so badly for some of the posters. Their kids had dynamite scores, state residents and didn’t get accepted. Even the kids of alumni didn’t get in. My kid didn’t want to go to UMD, but I would have been furious as a tax payer.

State residents do deserve acceptance. There is no rhyme or reason to UMD acceptances.

UMD can't accept every single applicant from MD.

Also, as they say, "it's not the university of montgomery county", if that's where you're from.

UMD is hard to get into now, and they don't care about legacy.

OOS needs to be capped. . Similar to UNC - Chapel Hill. Terrible.

Oos is capped at umd. They have usually 4500 fall freshman. There’s only so much room unfortunately.

Anonymous wrote:Does "FC" enable UMD to play with their data for rankings?
For other schools if you are accepted for Spring term, the data is not a part of the common data set.
The same way if you are wait listed it does not go in.

Yes, lots of schools do it; they all call it something different.

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Anonymous wrote:DD admitted into FIRE. Any insights on that program?

+1 and we’ve never heard of it.

UMD has a number of LLPs. Honors (6-7 programs within), FIRE. Carillon etc. All on their website.

If you got accepted to FIRE or Carillion does that mean you didn’t get accepted to the Honors College?

yes... Honors College > Scholars Program > Carillon Scholars > admitted > freshman connection/spring enrollment

Thank you. We’re a bit bummed DD didn’t get Honors College as she was accepted into that everywhere else she applied. DS didn’t want it so he’s just happy he got in period.

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Anonymous wrote:DS got admitted to Scholars college. Are scholarships meant only for Honors college admits?

I think the merit scholarships are only for honors or Banneker Key students. DS is a freshman at UMD in College Park Scholars. He didn’t get any merit but he loves his LLP. He’s in ETE. There are departmental scholarships that they can apply to. DS got an invitation to apply for scholarship offered by his major over the summer and he got one.

Non-Honors students can get merit scholarships, but the BK Scholarship is limited to Honors students.

Anonymous wrote:Rejected. 3.78 unweighted.

Rejected here too. 3.97 unweighted. 4.75 weighted. Solid application (two varsity sports, captain of 1, 500+ community service hours, awards won, other clubs) Test Optional

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Anonymous wrote:I was on the UMD 2028 FB page. Feel so badly for some of the posters. Their kids had dynamite scores, state residents and didn’t get accepted. Even the kids of alumni didn’t get in. My kid didn’t want to go to UMD, but I would have been furious as a tax payer.

State residents do deserve acceptance. There is no rhyme or reason to UMD acceptances.

UMD can't accept every single applicant from MD.

Also, as they say, "it's not the university of montgomery county", if that's where you're from.

UMD is hard to get into now, and they don't care about legacy.

OOS needs to be capped. . Similar to UNC - Chapel Hill. Terrible.