<p>For NJ/NY because it is so competitive most of the students coming out of there are way above the avg gpa. Remember that UMD takes 75% from IS, so those gpas can be lower compared to OOS. If you use the stats that @30K students apply, and out of those only 11K are accepted with 25% from OOS, that means @2700 are offered admittance, and that includes the International pool. Now place in the fact that they want to increase the international class size to 600, figure they offer @750+, that puts the number of OOS stateside to under 2K. UMD is incredibly popular among NJ/NY, I would be willing to bet one yrs tuition that they have at least 3-4K kids applying between the 2 states. If they gave all 2K to those 2 states, you are still looking at less than a 50-50 shot. We all know that they wouldn’t do that, but even if they give 1000 offers, statistically you are at a 25% chance of getting accepted. All of that being said, you can now see why the stats from those 2 states will be much higher than the avg gpa if any chance me poster want to consider UMD as a safety.</p>
<p>It is looking at it from a supply and demand point of view. The demand from NJ/NY is much higher than the supply, thus, UMD has the ability to be highly selective regarding those two states.</p>
<p>I have retrieved ly’s accepted thread, if you look at NJ acceptances, you will see that if they have a 3.7 uw gpa, traditionally they have broken the 1300 out of 1600 marker. Their weighted are all in the strong 4+, which means they have taken rigorous course loads.<br>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/645526-official-2013-decisions-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/645526-official-2013-decisions-thread.html</a></p>
<p>Hope that the linked thread will also help people to personally view themselves with others including their state, sex, race, EC’s and just not numbers. Finally, I believe that 3.92 is w not uw, because if you look at honors, gemstone and scholars, they list the avg gpa over 4.0, which would be impossible unless it was weighted. Princeton on the other hand might list theirs as uw, and that would be why UMD is higher. Which brings us full circle, if the w avg is 3.92, then you must expect NJ and NY to be over 4.0. Just look at the acceptances for people from Cal, FlA, OH, etc., on a whole their stats are lower than NJ/NY…DIVERSITY, SUPPLY AND DEMAND are the real reasons.</p>