<p>Does anyone know Waitlist statistics for UMD? How many are put on WL and how many get accepted?
My understanding is that some kids are offered Spring session and are put on a waitlist and some are only offered Spring session…</p>
<p>Your understanding is correct, some are offered Freshman connection with no waitlist option and some are given that option.</p>
<p>Statistically, I do not know the answer, but UMDCP is the flagship school for IS Maryland. If they are like other state flagship colleges, I would say the % is probably around 10-20% for getting in from the wait list.</p>
<p>It is not something I would bet on as a given, especially in this economy.</p>
<p>Take a look from a different approach. Let’s say they had 30K apply, 11K accepted for 4K spots, they need to clear through that 7K before they start taking from the wait list. That’s a lot of kids for them to clear through when UMDCP is their state college…kind of like PSU, UNCCH, UVA, VT, UMiami, FSU etc.</p>
<p>That is the type of data that is usually in a school’s common data set–number of applicants offered a spot on the wait list, number accepting a spot, number eventually admitted.</p>
<p>It took some serious searching, but I found this.
<a href=“https://www.irpa.umd.edu/menus.cfm?action=irreports[/url]”>https://www.irpa.umd.edu/menus.cfm?action=irreports</a></p>
<p>The most recent CDS is the class that enrolled in Fall 2009. 857 kids accepted a spot on the waiting list and 9 were admitted.</p>
<p>2009 academic year , from Common Data Set</p>
<p>Number accepting a place on the waiting list 857
Number of wait-listed students admitted 9</p>
<p>That is pretty low. I really don’t want my son starting off college doing FC…I think it’s a great option if MD is your number 1 choice. He’s been accepted to a number of other good schools so this makes the decision a little easier.</p>
<p>Wow, so it is 1% that get off the list.</p>
<p>They don’t even report how many were offered a spot. Only how many accepted a spot.
Presumably they offered a lot more. That’s usually the case.</p>
<p>Also consider whether your child was admitted directly into their major as a feshman or whether they have to reapply for it after sophomore year. Is that a risk you are willing to take?</p>
<p>For the spring 2012 admits w/ WAITLIST for fall, here are statistics I found on USNWR college site:</p>
<p>Fall 2009 Wait List<br>
Wait list Yes
Applicants placed on wait list 857
Students on the wait list accepted 857
Students enrolled from wait list 9</p>
<p>I’d say this is good news for you!</p>
<p>The true problem is May/June is usually the notification for all schools. It is now up to you to decide do you take Freshman 1st waitlist and risk it, or go somewhere else and get fall admit.</p>
<p>BulletPima - this info is from the collegeboard website:</p>
<p>Colleges don’t decide who will be admitted off the waiting list until the May 1 decision deadline has passed. Prepare to attend another school by filling out the paperwork and sending in a deposit. If you’re accepted off the waiting list, you will forfeit your deposit at the first school and be required to submit a deposit to the second.</p>
<p>I know that stay, but not every parent has the money to drop deposits JIC. Welcome to my world, I have 2 in colleges, and come next spring I will need to drop a deposit for our 3rd. 250-350 each for 2 colleges JIC, while I pay rent, food, tuition and books for the other 2 matters in my checkbook. I don’t think my life is abnormal, I think it is common.</p>
<p>OBTW, I also don’t allow my kids to apply to 10-15 colleges at 50-75 bucks a pop. 5 -7 colleges at tops. I have yet to find that darn money tree in my yard. I send those kids out everyday to find it, but they too have failed. </p>
<p>I am glad you can think spending a couple hundred bucks as nothing, but I can’t. It is my monthly electric bill, it is my weekly food bill, it is my christmas money. </p>
<p>If I had the option, sure as sheeaaat I would drop it and reserve every waitlist my kid was on. Alas, I am not that fortunate, and I have to break the cruel real world to my child that if I spend 250-350 on the deposit and lose it because you got pulled off the waitlist, something else must go away.</p>
<p>Additionally, UMDCP has been known to pull in the end of July/Aug. Meanwhile, every other student has gone to orientation at their back up school and created their schedule. On top of that UMDCP has done the same, so if these kids opt this route, their class schedules will be dictated by the slim pickings of what it left over. Let’s not even discuss dorms!</p>
<p>For some, and actually probably the majority, unless all they want is UMDCP and nothing else by July they have moved on.</p>
<p>No need to get defensive BPima. If someone really wanted UMCP, then all hope is not lost…</p>
<p>Congrats on your ability not to feel the fiscal pain like us normal people with 2 kids in college and a 3rd on the way.</p>
<p>Since you have the belief you can just write money off and gain nothing, please PM me, because I am more than happy to accept that check for 300.</p>
<p>You stated your DS was not accepted to UMDCP as a fall admit and that UMDCP is a non-player now because of this decision. Question begs to be asked, are you going to pay that deposit JIC?</p>
<p>Our DS is a jr there from OOS in Scholars. We would have paid it if he only wanted UMDCP. He has great friends that were freshmen connection.</p>
<p>DO not let that stop you…it is 1 semester and if you want UMD, and understand you can still go to the games, dorm parties, you will have no problem.</p>
<p>BPima - you seriously need to control your anger.
I posted those statistics for other kids that may really want UMCP in the fall.
Not all parents want their kids to live off campus.
It’s none of your business how I spend my money! BTW, we are not going to take the waitlist as my son has decided he wants to go to PITT or Penn state.</p>
<p>Congrats to your DS.</p>
<p>If you know the freshman connection, you know come spring they move into dorms.</p>
<p>If you know UMDCP, you would also know that as a jr 90% live off campus. UMDCP has a huge housing shortfall, to the point they do not guarantee it for sophs.</p>
<p>I honestly do not care how you spend your money. My only point was before you state that dropping hundreds of bucks to hold a spot with the opinion if we lose it no problem, understand that to some of us that was just a twang of being pompous.</p>
<p>Great on you, G Bless. Happy for you!</p>
<p>You may see my posts as anger ridden, honestly they aren’t. That is the problem with forums. You never talk face to face.</p>
<p>Me OTOH can see your posts filled with resentment that UMDCP didn’t accept your DS for fall admit over others. </p>
<p>I don’t see it that way, I see it as you don’t think freshman connection is a good fit for your DS. I respect that, because as a parent all we want is happiness for our children. The best way to secure that is to make sure they match the school. In your case it wasn’t a match. It isn’t and wasn’t personal.</p>
<p>OBTW if you never want your child to live off campus, I suggest you look seriously into housing, because the big schools like Pitt and PSU traditionally do not promise 4 yrs of on campus housing.</p>
<p>Heck, I have friends with kids at NCST, Duke, UNCCH, UVA, VCU and a child at VT. All of us had to accept that on campus housing doesn’t exist as a guarantee after freshman/soph yr.</p>
<p>Finally congrats on PITT, our cousin graduated from there for law school, he now works for the DOJ in DC. Great school.</p>
<p>I have no resentment at all. I am instate and my son goes to a highly ranked high school where it is tough to get into UMCP. Many of his friends did not get in.
I graduated from MD and I am aware of the housing…I lived in my sorority after freshman year. I would just like my son to start off housing his freshman year. And you don’t need to “fill” me in on housing at PITT and Penn. My son will probably live off campus by his sophomore or junior year anyways. And, I never insinuated that I would pay that deposit. This information was for others that would like to be a regular fall admit. I’m tired of having this discussion with you. Good day!</p>
<p>does anyone have any information or insight into the Waitlist for the Scholars Program?</p>
<p>“If you know UMDCP, you would also know that as a jr 90% live off campus. UMDCP has a huge housing shortfall, to the point they do not guarantee it for sophs.”</p>
<p>Just for the record, the above is no longer the case. With the opening of Oakland Fall '11, sophs ARE guaranteed housing. There has been a lot of construction of both dorms and “off campus” high-rises. Housing is no longer a problem.</p>
<p>Fine, sophs are now guaranteed, how about jrs and srs?</p>
<p>Again my DS is a jr, things change, I get that, but the point is at UMD they do not have enough housing for 4 yrs for every student. If you want on campus housing for 4 yrs as a factor in the decision process, UMDCP is not going to make that cut.</p>
<p>Like I said before I have no bone in this dog fight. I am just saying that freshman connection works.</p>
<p>There are many kids who did it and transitioned very well. </p>
<p>Does it stink to do 15 weeks that way? YES! </p>
<p>Yet, UMDCP has had great success with it and that is why they have kept it.</p>
<p>It is not for every kid, and you need to think long term from a collegiate perspective before you throw in the towel and say no to it.</p>
<p>I would bet that the statistical % of acceptances for this would be higher for IS students who can commute for a semester. That being said, one of our DS’s closest friends is from CT and they did Freshman connection.</p>
<p>Instead of having a peeing argument let’s get back to the fact about waitlisting as a freshman connection student.</p>