Many schools go through international and oos before IS acceptance.
Congrats to each of you, you are going to love it. For engineering and CS. Get ready to work hard.
It was an awesome experience for me and my friends.
Did anyone international get into Honors? I got accepted with the 16k yearly scholarship but no Honors. I haven’t heard any of my friends, who are also international, get into Honors even though they also got accepted with the Chancellor’s Award.
Same offer,same award amount, same major for me.
I’m from India, ACT 36, SAT Math 2- 800, physics and chemistry-790
TOEFL-116.(All first attempts)
Congratulations to you!
@ellover1 honors college chooses it’s students based on a number of factors, it isn’t just one set of scores, they want representation from the different schools within UMass, they want the diversity of students from other parts of the US, and some International… as they said on a couple of the tours i’ve been on there…“if we only chose the highest achieving students, the honors college would be full on Nurses and CS majors only”
I think the overall percentage of the incoming class that gets into the honors college is very small. I would suspect that’s why you haven’t run across any others yet… but stay tuned to this thread, I’m sure we’ll start to see some in the next couple weeks.
as an example, my other child, is presently attending Cornell as a CS major, got into Umass, but was not offered honors college.
@DarkHorse05,
Wow! with these kind of stats UMass must be safety for you? Congratulations!
@AngelCUI Thanks!!! You too!!!
Commonwealth honors college is better than Cornell so it makes sense to me.
Yes I’m a grad. Lol.
@AngelCUI , Wow - congrats! And congrats to everyone who’s been accepted!
Congrats to those accepted but pet peeve is that they really should accept the MA instate students FIRST. We support the university with our tax dollars and it is our state university. Never understood why the go international and out of state first. IMO poor judgement!
One might have to consider that unfortunately universities are run like a business and their priorities are how to maximize tuition revenue, yield and other buzz word KPIs.
UMass knows that most instate students have no choice but to go there due to the instate tuition and that state of MA will never not fund them due to the political pressure from students/parents. Hence they will prioritize locking down international and out of state students first before they get to instate students.
@matt2024 lots of state universities let their in state applicants know first and pride themselves on that. University of South Carolina for one and several more. I fully understand the business end of it and how international students usually pay the full tuition and room and board so most state and actually private schools really want them! However I would love to know the charter and actual aim of UMass - when I attended UVM many years ago they went out of their way to cater to the instate students and fully acknowledged using the out of staters for the revenue but they held firm to making sure the majority were from instate if they did have the ability to get into the school. UMass Amherst really should do that for its in state kids!
UMass (Amherst) at least is actually no bargain for our instate students - with my kids so far its been a middle of the pack money wise option and they had lots of great options that were cheaper! We shall see with my next child though.
Yield protection makes sense if the accepted EA applicants were required to put in a deposit earlier than May 1st. With the current deadline, there is no way for the school to know if any of these kids would take the offer. I would say that in-state applicants are more likely to provide yield protection because of the tuition advantage being instate provides.
As for the full tuition paid by international students, till now all international offers are accompanied by 16k scholarship which brings the tuition almost at par with the instate tuition.
Yield protection is not an issue. Yield projections matter of course but only in relation to over enrollment. They have no problem filling a class and then some. If you qualify in their eyes you get an acceptance.
That doesn’t mean seemingly qualified or over qualified students get deferred or rejected. They do make qualitative judgements that can make no sense. But much less so than many other private schools which really do have concerns and protect yield.
Thank you for your comment. Yes, it is a safety, but I actually love the school. Other safeties are UMCP,UW Madison,Purdue and Mich State.
Last year it seems like they released decisions on Mondays. I wonder if it will be the same this year!
the campus is closed today, so i’d expect the Admissions people would not be in today.
Maybe not, but if all they have to do is press a button to release the latest batch they may still do that tonight. The decisions seemed to be released in the evening.
@miscparentname I would hope like most of us that the admissions people work from home and could review the applications today. Just the campus is closed, I would think they would work today?
@Momtofourkids i just figured… like at my kid’s Highschool today… when it’s a snow day… no one at the school works… so i guess we don’t know what they do out at umass… we’ll know later today if some results trickle out
@miscparentname unfortunately you are probably correct - its more likely run as a secondary school rather than a “business” although it really is more like a “business” lol!