<p>I’m in a similar boat. I have a 3.43 uw gpa, 1820 sat and I want to go for engineering. But I’m honestly worried about getting in at all. The gpa stats are very threatening. So, I applied for undecided. It’s not hard to transfer. I’m glad that there are other people who understand me on this site and are not 4.0’s, you know?</p>
<p>Well we just found out that my son got admitted to UConn for engineering. Very frustrating that he is having trouble getting into our own flagship but gets admitted to UConn and Umass Lowell.</p>
<p>Emmacat-What info do you have that it is not hard to transfer?</p>
<p>My boyfriend goes to Umass. He has changed his major about 4 times I believe. Started as an engineer major, transferred to business, then to legal studies, and is now a political science major. All he had to do was fill out a form and he was transferred. You can probably change your major as soon as you are accepted.</p>
<p>accepted early action (received decision mid December)
Major: Biology
3.5 GPA with honors classes
1860 SAT… 610 CR, 650 M, 600 W
OOS (New Jersey)
8k scholarship</p>
<p>Well, my Ds talked to admissions rep toda. she told him that they had received his 1st semester senior grades and that basically his application would now be put in the RD pile. Not sure I feel about this. Hope he can’t get rejected! So, it’s like he was deferred.</p>
<p>When are RD decisions supposed to come out?</p>
<p>Hi ConfusedMom - my son applied RD and it says decisions should come out in mid-March. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for your son!</p>
<p>BTMell-thanks and congrats on the UNH acceptance!</p>
<p>Thanks so much - he’s really excited about it. He really likes UMass and the Amherst area so we’re hoping for good news as well. Our older S is in Amherst - at Hampshire College. Dare I hope that they end up in the same town???</p>
<p>Is UMASS hard to transfer into?</p>
<p>For Fall 2012, the acceptance rate for transfer applications was around 61%.</p>
<p>Are decisions only mailed out or are they put on the portal first? And are decisions made available right when they’re made or do we have to wait until the specified date?</p>
<p>Past practice has been to send out notices as they are ready instead of all on one day.</p>
<p>Ok thanks! Anyone that applied regular decision get theirs yet?</p>
<p>Not yet - my son’s Spire page says it’s under review but it’s been that way for a couple of weeks. They received his application Dec 25.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I found this online today. I was very confused about the way that UMass reports their gpa and sat average and found this data. It is reported by UMass. It shows the gpa average (as calculated my UMass) and sat averages for the incoming 2012 class for each school. I found it much easier than the regular data reported at sites like college board. Thought that I might share for anyone getting nervous like me 
<a href=“http://www.umass.edu/oapa/publications/factbooks/admissions/FB_ad_10.pdf[/url]”>http://www.umass.edu/oapa/publications/factbooks/admissions/FB_ad_10.pdf</a></p>
<p>Emmacat - thanks for that link. Great info but really makes me even more nervous for my DS!</p>
<p>No problem! I was really surprised when I found it. It clarifies all the confusing statistics that I’d been hearing. Did you recalculate his gpa the UMass way?</p>
<p>I think he might still come up a little short (maybe in the 3.4ish range).</p>
<p>That’s what I thought too! I had a 3.4 and when I recalculated it UMASS style, I have a 3.9. It was very surprised. It can’t hurt to try?</p>
<p>A 3.4 as calculated by UMass should be fine if the SATs are decent. Only issue might be specific majors like nursing or engineering but for general acceptance I wouldn’t worry</p>