University of Maryland (UMD) Early Action for Fall 2025 Admission

As per the latest available CDS (Fall 2023) the acceptance rates were:
In-state: 54%
OOS: 41.5%

Of course, the acceptance rate for LEPs like CS will be significantly lower.

The number of acceptances were:
In-state: 8,518
OOS: 18,105

(There are 3x more OOS applicants than in-state and they have a much lower yield, which is why so many more are admitted)

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Echoing this. Barring a drastic change from previous years, I’d be shocked if decisions were released before this Friday.

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Agreed, and anyway STEMX confirmed above that decisions are coming out on Friday.

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I wonder if the yield (# who choose to attend/# accepted) for OOS is so low because students might apply hoping to get merit similar to other big ten publics but then don’t get it from UMD.

That’s why my son declined to go from OOS several years ago, even though UMD was his top choice and he got into honors. They wouldn’t budge on only offering $2500/yr merit. Then ASU Honors offered full tuition. It was tough to swallow but ultimately the right decision. A great education and no debt.

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I get it. We are instate for UMD or it would not be on our list. We targeted OOS schools that give $10k or more to get the price close to instate at UMD.

my daughter made the same decision. Out of state UMD was top choice, ended up at ASU Barrett and is very happy.

What OOS merit aid is there, and how does it compare to competitors?

ETA: my older boys did get offered some merit aid but ultimately went closer to home. But this was years ago and things may have changed. DS25 I think has UMD as his #1 choice.

Interesting. My son got into ASU for biz analytics. Ranked 10th in country. Great biz school. Concern is coming back east and trying to get an internship or job. What is your son studying. FYI, my son didn’t get into Barrett

What is she studying?

Mich State, U of AZ, U of Minn, George Mason U, Ohio State, all known to give $15k to $20k annually for 4 years.

my daughter is marketing and professional sales major at Barrett and WP Carrey but she’s doing a certificate in business analytics. Only a sophomore so can’t comment on jobs yet but very happy there.

Sounds good. My older son applied there three years offered a ton of money. My S25 no merit offer.

What other schools did she consider?

Like other highly sought after public schools (UIUC, Purdue, GT), UMD gives very little merit aid. They don’t need to, since they get plenty of highly qualified applicants and don’t need to provide discounts via merit awards.

But they do provide some merit aid to top applicants, and a full ride (Banneker-Key) award to the very tippy top. These are all awarded holistically, and not just based on stats.

Comparable with its peers like the schools listed. But of course, not comparable to schools that are a couple of notches down in terms of reputation and popularity.

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I would add South Carolina to that list. They give great aid. As of now (final merit comes out in March), it’s 25% cheaper for my son to go there than his in-state school (UMass).

Yes- my son has several classmates who received merit from USC that makes the cost the same or less than UMD instate.

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Office of Undergraduate Admissions | Freshman Merit Scholarships, only about 20% of admitted freshmen are awarded merit aid, and admissions over-awards knowing not all who receive will attend, meaning that when one of them declines UMD admission, that award does not go to someone else. They also do not “barter” or change awards to meet other school’s offers.

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When my daughter applied to UofSC in 2021, they gave her instate tuition rate + $4k. It was about the same or a little less as UMD instate (we are in Maryland). Howver, UMD gave her 5K/year and that made our decision much easier.

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Son who graduated from Barrett in Political Science now works in NYC at a media analytics start-up and doing great. The ASU Barrett degree wasn’t an impediment to his East Coast job search, though he worried it would be at the time.

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Thanks for the info.