<p>Mo.Co. has off tomorrow??? booooo Anne Arundel</p>
<p>I am 3 for 3 so far. have gotten into Michigan State, UVM, and UMass all for engineering. These were all my saftey schools though. UMD is a small reach for me and I am so scared that this will be my first rejection, especially since it is my top choice =/.
I applied for computer engineering, but I will be lucky/happy if i can even just get into the university itsself and transfer into engineering or business after my first couple years.</p>
<p>amarch53, you are in the same boat as my son. He got into UMBC with scholarship money and the Penn State school of Engineering at the main campus. We are waiting on Maryland, which is his #1 choice and VA Tech. He is 2 for 2, but this is hid choice and thereby more stressful. </p>
<p>BoBenvolio, I wish you good luck with Maryland. Hopefully all here will be Terps!!</p>
<p>2 for two for this kid here! Accepted to UMBC and Georgia Tech engineering. Hopefully Maryland soon. I applied as a Material Science Engineering major since there is less competition, and will switch once I get into Clark or something.</p>
<p>@buzzardsbay: Yeah…we only get tomorrow off because it’s professional day, when teachers have to put in grades. Our finals were last week, and the semester officially ended on Friday.</p>
<p>I have yet to apply to UMBC, which is my safety. Honestly though, it’s my absolute last resort (even if I, by some stretch, were to get financial aid), since UMBC does not offer one of my intended majors (Japanese). Actually, from the looks of it, I’m likely applying only to UMD and UMBC…so if UMD denies my application, I guess I’m screwed.</p>
<p>What do you guys think of UMBC? I haven’t actually visited the place…but our school sends A LOT of people to UMBC (along with College Park) each year. Although at our school, most people who attend UMBC are either some of the better students whom are science people or receive financial aid, or they’re the denied UMD applicants.</p>
<p>From the looks of it then, since for many of us UMD is first-choice, some of us are only a few days away from possibly knowing exactly where we’re going. Ha, talk about pressure…</p>
<p>heh well this is a bit odd but my intended major is also Japanese and I also go to a school in Montgomery County haha</p>
<p>I visited UMBC and the campus is nice, but as I’m sure you already know, they only offer two years of Japanese (though they do have a study abroad program to Japan). So I suppose it’d be alright for two years and then you could transfer to UMD, but of course it’d be nice to just go to UMD for four years.</p>
<p>I was talking to someone who went to my high school and now is majoring in Japanese at UMD and he said the program is pretty good; the only issue is that the textbooks suck. But i looked it up and it seems to be the standard college textbook so oh well :(</p>
<p>kh what school do you go to? I’m in moco too and I’m just wondering… If you go to my school then that’s kinda weird haha.</p>
<p>heh alright i’ll be the first moco person to (to my knowledge) say my school. I go to whitman! lol anyone else?</p>
<p>Haha…I’m declining to comment on where I go, simply because to those lurkers at my school (and I know there are MANY of them), it’ll be a dead giveaway as to my identity. </p>
<p>The UMD threads seem to be infested with MCPS kids, haha.</p>
<p>But I will say, I don’t go to Whitman.</p>
<p>Yeah…honestly, when I do major in Japanese, I’m only gonna rely so much on what we learn in classes. I’ve been independently studying for a while and conversing with a Japanese friend. I just sort of distrust language classes aimed at foreigners, simply because I feel they are way too structured, and a lot of the material may not be suitable for practical use (The material in JLPT, for instance, is total crap according to my friend). </p>
<p>UMBC would be a much more viable (and attractive) option for me if it had a stronger Japanese language program. But since it doesn’t…well, here’s hoping I don’t get rejected by UMD. Haha…</p>
<p>Heh well hopefully we will be seeing eachother around campus then!</p>
<p>the main issue with the textbook apparently is that it’s all romanized, so as long as you have take the extra initiative (and you seem like you will), it shouldnt be an issue.</p>
<p>Eww…romanized. Lol.
The problem with relying on books with romanizations (particularly with those who are truly beginners) is that once you keep seeing romanized text, that becomes the system you use the most. So then reading things in kana (and kanji, for later levels) becomes more difficult. That was my issue when I first started; used these “standard” textbooks with romanized text…then when I read the kana out loud, I literally had to read each character out loud and didn’t know which groups of hiragana formed which words. </p>
<p>Yes, hopefully we’ll see each other! There doesn’t seem to be many UMD Japanese majors anyway (or at least, not on CC)…and it is pretty funny how we’re both from MoCo, haha.</p>
<p>haha ah yes, a small world indeed. I’ve taken Japanese at my school all four years (wow people will probably know who I am now lol) so the writing shouldnt be a huge issue for me…but then again I’m also hoping to skip at least level one xD</p>
<p>nuthin’. :(</p>
<p>pfffffffffffffffffffff</p>
<p>i just called admissions and they said you shouldnt expect decisions online until february 1st</p>
<p>^Seriously? Geez, that’s even later than last year. And they got the extra month…AND they said they would post them by the end of the month. -.-</p>
<p>yep seriously, and i agree like we did everything earlier but yet its later than last year, it makes no sense</p>
<p>It makes sense if they have another record breaking yr. LY they were over 29K, they might be close to 31K this yr. That is alot of applicants to go through.</p>
<p>Additionally, as much as this might tick you off, they stated Feb., they never said Jan. Even when you had an earlier due date, which in essence wasn’t that much earlier than yrs before, they still told you walking in that it would be FEBRUARY. It stinks to wait because you feel like life is on hold, but in the end of the day, you knew that was the timeframe and wishing it to change will do nothing, but get you frustrated.</p>
<p>^ Actually, they did say January. The admissions representative that visited my school told us that since the deadline is a month earlier, they were planning to tell us by late January.</p>
<p>The UMD website says the same</p>
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<p>But my guess is they probably lost a few days because of the snow storm, pushing the date to February 1st. And like Pima said, they probably got way more applications this year, so it’s taken them longer than usual. And let’s not forget the increased honors programs, so they’re probably doing a more thorough evaluation.</p>
<p>Is waiting another week really that hard though :)</p>