<p>“but to be admitted into UMDCP as an Engineering student does not mean they are automatically going to get into Clark. The same is true for Smith or Merrill, you can be in a program, your degree will state Engineering UMDCP, the one from Clark will state UMDCP Clark.”</p>
<p>This is totally false…</p>
<p>If you are accepted as an engineering student at MD, you are accepted into Clark. You CANNOT get an engineering degree from University of Maryland, College Park without being in the Clark school. Similarly you cannot get a business or journalism degree from University of Maryland, College Park, without being in Smith or Merrill. Your degree will never state “UMDCP Engineering”.</p>
<p>“We maybe seeing it differently…I am saying you can apply for engineering, not get into Clark, but still get into another school that will allow you to do core courses and apply from within. This would be why in part the Colleges of Computer or Chemical exists.”</p>
<p>It’s true that you can fail to be admitted as an engineering major to the school but still take certain pre-requisite and CORE classes and apply from within. However that’s definitely not even part of the reason why colleges of computer or chemical sciences exist - those schools serve a totally different set of majors and you can do pre-reqs and CORE classes in order to apply for engineering within ANY college at UMDCP, including (and this is most frequently the case for those that did not get into their first choice major) good ol’ Arts and Humanities as an undecided major. A history major could take the engineering pre-reqs and apply for engineering if he/she so desired.</p>
<p>But the OP doesn’t have to worry about this. Her stats make her an auto-admit for Clark, in my opinion. If she doesn’t get into Clark I would encourage her and her guidance counselor to appeal the decision.</p>