So I’ve finished up my app, had transcripts, test scores and letters delivered. Now what? Will UMD send me a link to an online portal to track admission status, or just send me a letter/email when they’ve made a decision, or what?
Awesome! Good to have submitted in time for priority consideration…
Now what? Exhale, relax, get back to focus on enjoying your last year of high school/last year home, and wait.
When Maryland had their own applications (prior to this year), you would go to their online portal to track status/confirm receipt but not sure how it will work with Coalition App. However, in general, Maryland will not contact you until decisions come out (typically last week in January). All priority admissions decisions are released on the same day. Again, not sure if things will be diff with Coalition App, but students used to get an email to let them know to check their portal and this would be followed up with a snail mail letter a few days later with the same decision info.
Best of luck!
@Junior3 - In prior years, UMD had their own application and portal. On that portal, you submitted your App and could track the receipt of all application related documents. UMD also used that portal to release decisions.
Now, from what I’ve read, the Coalition App provide a UMD Portal that lets you track application documents. As with the old UMD portal, it can take a few days for stuff to show up.
The UMD application deadline page says that decisions will be released by Feb 1, 2018. For at least the past 5 years, UMD has listed Jan 31 or Feb 1 as the decision release date. Generally decisions come out a few days earlier, but that is all.
In previous years, UMD released all decisions at the same time, on the same day. Everyone was sent an email stating that decisions were available on the UMD portal. The email did not state what the decision was. You had to log into the portal to see it.
I have no idea how UMD will release decisions this year. They may use the coalition app portal. They may set up their own portal again.
UMD will not even begin to review the applications until after the Nov 1 deadline, possibly not until several weeks after Nov 1