chance me please..instate student

bulletandpima
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:32:05 +0000

Last year it was in the news UMDCP had 28K applicants for 4K slots…that makes it 1 in 7. It made the news in March sometime about how it was the highest ever in applications…mainly because of the economic downturn many IS students were applying. Since 2005 for class of 09, the amt of applications have gone up @25% 22K in 05, up to over 28K in 07, I bet this yr it will be @30K. However, at the same time they have not increased their class size. Math works here…more applicants means lower accept rate.

UMD’s acceptance rate in for Class of 11 was down to 41%, overall compared to a 51% in Class of 10. Class of 12 was lower than that. It has consistently dropped over time. I am guessing for iS it will be even harder to be accepted this yr b/c of our economic issues. Lets face it every parents 529 or mutual probably lost 50% of their portfolio, so IS is looking better and better, especially if you can get into the specialty programs. Many parents will turn and say Smith IS or UVA OOS…take SMITH.

Transfer students are not in that pile because they are not coming in as a freshman