UMD, UIUC, GT here.
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Yes, as CS is even more competitive for currently enrolled UMD students to declare than business is.
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Usually between about 4:45-6 p.m.
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Correct - and a student can only declare one major as an incoming freshman/transfer. Once they have established a UMD GPA they can then add other majors/minors.
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@STEMX, if I may provide feedback - it would be super helpful to future prospective applicants if UMD (like some other schools like Purdue, UIUC, UWash, etc) published acceptance rates and GPA/test scores by college, preferably broken down by in-state vs out-of-state. Even more useful if the rates for high demand majors like CS is published.
Is this something you guys might consider doing?
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I would imagine (hope!!) CS stats are all 3.9 or 4.0 UW/ 4.5+ W and 1550+ SAT whether in state or out of state. Seeing as my 3.8/4.5/1540 kid (5s on 10 APs) didnāt make the CS cut last year for in state. All worked out since kid loves OOS school but it is costing me twice as much. So I do hope stats for CS are much higher.
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Is it unusual for UMD to request 1st semester senior year transcripts?
They pulled them for my S25 engineering applicant. Only a couple other schools did the same.
What do you mean they pulled them? Our high school sent 1st semester transcripts to all schools d25 applied to.
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Our school sends them to every school we apply to so I assume they all want them
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I donāt see it either, but my school doesnāt send mid-year reports until the middle of February.
Donāt worry. I have an older one at UMD and they sent midyear transcripts in Feb. I am not looking at the website and going off memory but I thought UMD did not consider midyear transcripts for EA. Iām sure if Iām wrong someone will correct me.
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They were one of the few schools that actually showed them? Guess I didnāt realize they sent them to all schools, not just the final transcript. Our older daughter got in ED 4 years ago, so we never even looked at an admissions portal again.
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I donāt think they will, as they do not admit by College/Major and the admit process is holistic - not numbers-based.
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I understand, but UMD already publishes the stats and acceptance rates for the university overall.
It would be very helpful to break this down further, at least for LEPs.
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I think it is important for students and parents to read the following USM Board of Regents Policies
VI. ADMISSION OF OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS TO UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
Each institution may establish, for out-of-state students, standards that are higher than the undergraduate admission standards for in-state students. If a choice must be made between applicants of roughly comparable ability and promise, preference will be given to the Maryland resident.
Excluding University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) students and all students enrolled exclusively in distance education programs, the number of out-of-state undergraduate students in any institution shall not exceed 30 percent of its total undergraduate student body.
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I presume this is campus-level, right? Not every department needs to be at 30%?
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Helpful to know that we need to admit many more out of state students to yield one, though; about 1/3 of MD resident admits confirm but it is lower for out of state folx.
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The limitation is at the āInstitutionā level, so I would assume that means the entire undergraduate body.
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So assuming OOS yield is closer to 1/6 (about average for big universities), the actual instate to OOS acceptance is probably around 54/46.
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Per Common Data Set 2023-2024 about 50 percent of in state students are who are accepted attend CDS C (Yield)
https://www.irpa.umd.edu/InstitutionalData/CommonDataSet/CDS_2023-2024.xlsx?
It was 4225/8518 for instate
It was 1972/18105 for OOS
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