<p>I understand it will be released in July, but does anyone have an official date?</p>
<p>No, but don’t fret UMD does not do rolling admissions, so you can have it done on day 1 or Dec 1st, you still won’t find out any earlier than everybody else.</p>
<p>You could, however, start working on 2-3 college essays this summer. UMD (as well as most other schools) lets you answer your “own” question. For ideas, look at UMD’s (and other schools’) past applications.</p>
<p>You can also probably expect that the “niche” questions will be very similar.</p>
<p>If you have essays that you’ve worked on in the summer, you can put them away, and then bring them out and look at them with fresh eyes in the fall, where you’ll be able to edit.</p>
<p>You might find this useful:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/728129-application-preview-posted.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/728129-application-preview-posted.html</a></p>
<p>thanks for the feedback guys! i’ve already finished my essays! so now im just waiting on everything else, but the should be pretty easy :)</p>