@carrottopcurls2 Your son is not alone! Our D also OOS and accepted to engineering but nothing additional in terms of Honors, Scholars, LLC etc… We wait and see on merit scholarships to see if UMD will be in the running but not holding our breath! Fully expecting UMD to be priced out compared to other top options. We’ll see.
@carrottopcurls @stepl100 Be “feerless” . Many of these programs can be applied to after acceptance. Go to http://reslife.umd.edu/llp/ and explore the programs that you are interested in. UMD will rarely exclude anyone that desires to excel. Most importantly get great grades first year.
Search:
Department Honors
Scholars self nomination
Civicus self nominating
etc.
Read about the programs, go for the one you think you will thrive in
Current UMD Students
Current students at the University of Maryland who are interested in applying to the Honors College have several options.
First-year students
Current students who have completed one year of coursework at the University of Maryland can apply to join the Honors College. Admission for current UMD students is highly competitive and the number of spaces available is extremely limited. A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 is required to apply.
First-year students enrolled in College Park Scholars, CIVICUS, and Global Communities are eligible to apply to the Honors College. If admitted, students must withdraw from those programs to join the Honors College. Fall 2019 First-year students enrolled in FIRE are eligible to apply to the Honors College and may be members of University Honors and FIRE at the same time.
I have been reluctant to post the above after reading so many stories of people wanting to get into the Honors program because I think it is extremely difficult to transfer in. I think the only openings would come fron students dropping out. If your grades meet the mark after first year, go for it. But if you are in a program that you love, don’t throw away a year of that program to start over on Honors. You can always enter Department Honors junior year and take honors classes.
It seems pretty random to me for the LLCs. My son got Carillon but I don’t think any of the sub programs under it match is interest or personality
@stepl100 Thanks for not letting us feel so alone! lol! We are too in the same boat regarding finances and waiting to see if UMD can be on the list at all. Seems like other schools that he got into are the same. He got into them, but without having almost perfect ACT/SAT scores, there is no merit at all, despite having an excellent GPA and EC’s. And for us, we just cross over the financial aid line and get zero. Oh well. Luckily our state school Penn State which has an excellent engineering program. We just wanted him to have some options and the opportunity to live outside of PA.
I apologize for have a pity party for ourselves, lol! We knew what we were getting into. We did the NPC before we visited schools and did tell our son that we might not be able to afford it. And we also knew these were top engineering schools and his chances for merit could be slim. If he wanted to have greater chances of having a potential for more merit, he needed to look at other schools where his stats would be at the very top. Those that receive merit do so because they earned it and are exceptional. My son’s were stong enough to get accepted, so they are outstanding, just not exceptional. So excuse my little rant. We will continue to hold on to see how things play out, but will be realistic and understanding of the process.
Does anyone know if UMD send like an acceptance packet in the mail?
As a parent of an accepted student, I did not receive the above email. When/how would they send this to us? I am curious as I am afraid that they don’t have my email address for important information that pertains to parents of accepted students.
Any help would be appreciated.
It came to my daughter’s email address. Did you check there?
My son feels the same way. I’m encouraging him to choose the ones that he doesn’t mind. I would be interested to know advantages/disadvantages to Carillon Communities vs. not participating.
I am also interested in more info on the Carillon Communities. And how students were selected for them. At first glance it doesn’t appear that any of them are really a fit for my son’s personality and interests. But more information would be helpful in making that determination.
Did anybody receive BK scholarship this morning on coalition?
Apparently they did. There is another thread on that topic
Has anyone who has been accepted to Carillon gotten a merit scholarship? Looking through this thread it sounds like Honors, and then Scholars are provided scholarships first.
@FRDad - Except for the B/K scholarships, the timing other scholarships is not related to being in Honors or Scholars, or any particular LLC.
The B/K invites come out first because they involve an on campus interview
Does anyone know anything about Global Communities?
@Ravenrob I found it in my spam folder. Check there.
What is Carillon Communities??!! Is it a dorm?
@Guammom671 Thank you for the tip about checking the Spam folder.