University of Maryland (UMD) College Park Early Action 2024

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posted earlier, but here’s some info:

LEP accepted and got into honors college
SAT: 1500
ACT: 34
in-state female
w: 4.71 // uw: 3.9
11 APs total (from sophomore yr to senior yr)
strong ECs and essay
NHS President, involved with a couple of clubs and JV softball
intern at NASA

congrats to everyone who got in! To those who didn’t, it’s ok. A different college or path will work out. Life is unexpected and whatever happens is just another step forward. Everything always works itself out someway or another… don’t be discouraged!

Thank you to everyone who provided help and ideas in this thread. It’s been a wild ride boys

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@2024prospect - Wait a few days and try again. I’m actually surprised that they put that link up this soon

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Parent of twins. Both admitted yesterday
OOS

DS1: Engineering
GPA: 3.7 UW. 4.27 W
SAT: 1410
Strong EC-leadership
Strong letters of Recommendation

DS2: CS Honors
GPA: 4.1 UW. 4.8 W
Top 5%
ACT: 35
Weaker EC
Strong letters of recommendation

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Ok so I know people are saying you can transfer to compsci through internal transfer, but does anyone know if you would really be doing much more than prereqs freshman year anyway? like would you miss a whole lot if you went and then transfered in?

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Son accepted for Mechanical Engineering - no Honors or other programs

OOS - NJ
1500 Sat
4.24 W - 3.8 U
All accelerated and 6 AP classes
780 Calc and 760 Chem SAT Subjects
FB, track and baseball 4 years - some community service - otherwise no special ECs
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Adding some more info for database

EA Rejected UVA and Texas Austin
EA Deferred GT and Northeastern
EA accepted Purdue, Rutgers and MD. All for engineering programs

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So I was admitted for spring semester and have the option of Freshman Connection. Do I have to wait until the March 2nd date to enroll in Freshman Connection or can I enroll sooner?

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I am having the same issue. So frustrating.

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@ridingthewave Here is a lesser known fact about housing. Honors students are guarantted housing for four years. Other students usually only get housing first two years. After that they are pretty much on their own to find off campus rentals or on campus “Commons” appartments. Commons are pretty nice but consideably more expensive than dorms.

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ACCEPTED & Fire program
Computer sci
OOS (NJ)
3.5 W GPA (my school doesn’t do UW)
1370 SAT
Pretty good in terms of ECs
Good luck to everyone RD and remember you don’t need a perfect 4.0 to get in!

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@ridingthewave Here is a lesser known fact about housing. Honors students are guarantted housing for four years. Other students usually only get housing first two years. After that they are pretty much on their own to find off campus rentals or on campus “Commons” appartments. Commons are pretty nice but consideably more expensive than dorms.
Correction:
The above is what students will tell you is their experience. However UMD housing policy states that only Banneker Key and “similar scholarship” recipients are guaranteed 4 years of housing. The difference is minimal so you can draw your own conclusion.

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ok… i still have questions about these programs at Maryland… i go the website and it talks about them but i dont know any school that has this. my daughter got into Scholars, her friend FIRE, and another in Carillion… they are all from Florida and none of them have any clue what they are, why they got it and how they got it…versus someone who doesnt get it? or does everyone get something… is there anyone that can explain the process of why my D got Scholars… she didnt ask for it or apply for it… the web site does not do a good job of explaining why she got it… is it based on Merit? based on lottery. Luck? by major? can anyone explain with out sending me to another link?

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also are their tiers to these programs… like

Honors is top then scholars then Carillion etc etc?

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I was admitted spring with freshman connections! Does anyone know if you can get moved from spring to fall?
My stats are
GPA 3.5
ACT 34
I’ve done a lot of volunteering and extra curricular

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@becca21 With Freshman Connection, you would take classes and could live on campus in fall 2020. I doubt that you can change to a regular fall admission, since you were already evaluated for that and were offered spring admission. I’m assuming that you meant fall 2020. I think you would need to reapply to be considered for fall 2021 admission.

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My S20 also got designated as OOS when in fact we’re in-state and there are zero complicating factors (have lived continuously in MD since 2013). I know his application was accurate because we quadruple-checked it out of paranoia! There just has to be an internal mistake somewhere affecting a number of students.

This is from the admitted students FAQ: https://www.admissions.umd.edu/enroll/freshman-admission-decision-faqs

Q: I believe my resident status is incorrect. How can I fix this?

If you believe that your resident status (for tuition rate classification purposes) is incorrect, please review our residency reclassification policy. If you still have questions, please email oua-residency@umd.edu. Be sure to put “Recent Admit Residency Inquiry” in the subject line of your email to assist our team in addressing your inquiry as quickly as possible.

For reference: accepted into College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences for a natural science field. Honors.

In-state (no matter what UMD currently thinks)
3.98/4.0 UW, 4.73 W
SAT 1560 (800 M); SAT subject Math II, 800, Physics, 800
APs: Physics 1, Physics C, Calc BC (5s); AP NSL, APUSH, World History (4s), currently taking Chem, AP Java, Macro/Micro. Lang (10 total)
Additional STEM/engineering/CS classes
Same performing art all four years; audition-only level 10-12
ECs – one sport all 4 years, another interesting summer sport (hobby level), summer camp work – S20 went deep on the one sport rather than broad on a bunch of ECs. No leadership/community service to speak of.
Essay he put a lot of work into and it came out weel; assume recommendations were good but he didn’t see any of them.

Accepted UW-Madison, UIUC, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Stony Brook. Waiting for two private RD schools. All good schools and programs for what he wants to do, but it’s going to be very hard to justify the high sticker prices compared to UMD at this point.

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@lacrossegirl01 - I think you will have to wait, but at the bottom of this link you can submit any specific questions that you may have. There is also a phone at the very bottom

https://oes.umd.edu/incoming-current-visiting-students/freshmen-connection

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@jhmoney - The various admission committees try to match each student (based on the entire application) with the program that will be mutually beneficial to the student and the University.

There is a sequence to the process but No one on here can explain the process, other than to say that it is Holistic

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@thentt @ridingthewave - When it comes to housing, I can only relate the experiences of my D and her friends.

I clearly remember that we visited her early in her first semester and we were driving down Route 1. We passed some buildings and she said “That’s where I want to live Junior year” It was South Campus Commons.

Most of her friends were like minded in wanting to move into apartments Junior year. We viewed it as a sort of rite of passage.

Yes, the rent was more expensive, but they did not need a meal plan. There were 3 girls in the apartment, sharing food costs and cleaning and meal preparation.

It was a very positive experience for all concerned.

My D was in the Honors College and Not a B/K recipient and she did have the option of keeping on-campus housing, but that was back a few years

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Freshman Connection seems like a great option. After all, you are on campus unlike Northeastern’s NU IN where you HAVE to go to another country. And as far as taking classes at “off” hours, my best college class many moons ago at UMD was an evening class taught by someone in the real working world.

FIRE accepts 600 students to participate in research and looks like a fabulous opportunity (great for the resume and getting that competitive internship!). My son benefitted from doing research at his school which was difficult to get his freshman year.

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My daughter was accepted yesterday, which was a big relief! As I was emptying my gmail spam folder I noticed an email from UMD after I hit “permanently delete” that was titled something like, “Now that your daughter has been accepted to UMD – here are the next steps.”

Would anyone who received that email feel comfortable copying and pasting the body into a post here? I’m guessing nothing Earth-shattering, but I feel pretty dumb about deleting it. Thanks!

Also, for anyone having trouble getting into the “Accepted Student Visit” page, have no fear – I got through and there is nothing yet currently scheduled.