Current CS Senior at UMD - ask me anything

SoofDad
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:43:18 +0000

I’ll try to answer some of your questions.

To transfer into CS, a current student must satisfy the following:

Completion of CMSC 131 or CMSC 133 with a minimum grade of C-*

Completion of CMSC 132 with a minimum grade of C-*

Completion of MATH 140 with a minimum grade of C-*

A minimum grade point average of 2.7 in all courses taken at the University of Maryland and all other institutions

Indicates an Exemption Exam is available for this course. These exams are only available to students before they matriculate to the University of Maryland.

These are the only requirements. It doesn’t matter how many other credit a student has. These requirements can be met before, or during their first semester, or later. Therefore, it is important to have Official AP Test Scores sent to UMD as early as possible, so that UMD has them by the students Orientation Date.

In general, an Internal Transfer Form must be filled out by the the student and submitted for approval. If the Gateway requirements are met the Transfer is approved, Period!

Most LEPs state that there are Benchmark Reviews at various Credit points. My D and her Husband, who were both in LEPs (via Internal Transfers and not CS) have said that if a student is performing satisfactorily, these Review points are Non-Events.

As to your second question, I am sure that there students who Graduate Early and there are some students who could do this, but decide not to, for various reason.

I think one reason that you don’t hear about it much, is because people (students and parents) lose interest in this forum as they get further along in their academic journey. Additionally, the number of participants in this forum is a small percentage of the total number of students at UMD. UMD actually has a December Gradutaion, where many students (I don’t know the actual number) get their Diplomas and move on. UMD has recently announced that they are terminating the actual December Graduation Ceremony and inviting those students to the May Graduation Ceremony.

Finally, my D, who graduated in 2018, could have graduated at the end of her Junior year, if she had wanted to. However, she was in Departmental Honors and was doing Research for her Thesis and wanted the time to finish that. She also used that time to take some Grad courses and other courses that were of interest to her.