Freshmen Connection classes and "First Come First Serve"

3boyshouse
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 03:38:28 +0000

I asked this question because we were concerned about the same thing. I also asked if the FC tuition was discounted since the class times are less desirable. Honestly, being OOS and with no merit money, I’m hard-pressed to believe UMD is worth the cost when he got in at Pitt (in-state) and has merit at UMass and a couple others. In any event, here was the response I received from UMD regarding classes filling and tuition discount:

1. Certain courses fill before May 1st but we do our best to reserve seats in all classes that are first semester major requirements. A student who enrolls in late April may be waitlisted for certain math and science courses. We have never had a problem creating full-time (12+ credits) schedules for students who enroll even in early May. We do not enroll students in electives; we consider a student’s schedule a success if he/she is fulfilling major and/or outstanding General Education requirements.

2. Resident (in-state) tuition is usually exactly the same. Non-resident tuition is typically $4,000-$5,000 less (last fall’s non-resident Freshmen Connection tuition was $11,228) than the comparable fall rate.