**Decisions**

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Maryland - College Park
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<p>Decision: Accepted!!!! </p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 600M 640V 630CR
SAT IIs: pretty bad actually hah
GPA: 3.9/4.0 weighted
Rank: 79/430ish
Other stats: 3 sport varsity athlete
Essays: average
Teacher Recs: really good
Counselor Rec: awesome
Hook (if any): none
State or Country: NY, Long island specifically..
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Other Factors:none
Extracurriculars: 3 sport varsity athlere, NHS, Honor roll, scholar athlete, minds in motion, girls leaders service organization, spanish honor society..etc..
Why I think I was accepted/deferred: cuz im average?
Other thoughts: none</p>

42

<p>Accepted</p>

<p>College Park Scholars!</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] ACT:27
[</em>] SAT IIs:Biology:600 Math II:560 Spanish:500
[<em>] GPA:4.21(weighted)... 3.75 (unweighted)
[</em>] Rank: well within top 10%
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Great
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[<em>] Hook (if any): URM
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Maryland
[<em>] School Type: Private School in D.C.
[</em>] Ethnicity:African American
[li] Gender:Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
Extracurriculars:Member of School's Accredidation committee, Spanish Club president, Nat'l Hn. Soc., Span Hn Soc., Track and Field, Many science summer programs, Helped start a recycling program @ my school, Multicultural Student Alliance, Yearbook ummmm...cant think about what else </p>

<p>Why I think I was accepted/deferred:URM/grades/Ec's</p>

<p>Other thoughts: Yay!!!</p>

43

<p>yayyy accepted! Honors.</p>

44

<p>UMD Gemstones/honors</p>

45

<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED!!!!!! =)
COLLEGE: College of Education (I'm assuming? How do we find out if we were accepted to whichever school we applied to?)
STATS: Female, Long Island NY, Public school
GPA: 3.7 W
SAT: 1220/1600, 1910/2400
ACT: ----
RANK: School only ranks top 10%, prob in the top 20% though.
ETC: Tons of ECs/volunteer work, recs should have been pretty good, good essay.</p>

46

<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED + honors + gemstone
COLLEGE: Engineering (civil)
STATS: In-state asian female, from Montgomery County, science magnet program in competitive HS
GPA: 3.94 UW, 4.6 W
SAT: 1370/1600, 2070/2400 (ACT:32)
RANK: School doesn't rank, I est 5%
ETC: taking 3 aps and multivar calc this year, competitive piano, lots of extra piano stuff for school, env. science program, 4 years drama, asian am club co-founder and co-pres, NHS co-pres, currently teaching env. lessons to elem kids, pretty good essay (or so my lit teacher said hehe), very good recs</p>

<p>Does anyone know when we find out about scholarships and such?</p>

47

<p>ACCEPTED UMD honors/Gemstones</p>

48

<p>D is in; Honors/Gemstones. She's got great stats (still waiting on MIT -- deferred during EA)....we thought that UMD would be no prob, but it sure is nice to hear it!!!</p>

49

<p>Got excited but only got this message after logging in.....augh!!!!</p>

<p>We are unable to offer you a decision on your application at this time. You will be contacted as soon as the decision process is complete. </p>

<p>Thank you for your interest in the University of Maryland</p>

50

<p>Where are you all clicking to find this out?</p>

<p>Check Your Decision and Confirm Your Enrollment
This site is currently inactive. You will be able to check your decision and confirm your enrollment after admissions decisions have been mailed for the Fall 2007 semester. Please check here again on Saturday, February 17, 2007.</p>

51

<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED
COLLEGE: Arts & Humanities - Art History
STATS: Male, New York State Competative Public School
GPA: 88-89 average
SAT: 1210/1600, 1990/2400 (ACT:28)
RANK: School doesn't rank
ETC: Lacrosse, Film Club, Yearbook Club, Ski Club
Great rec's (1 from museum internship)
Great essay/ statements</p>

52

<p>Xenesie, go to the Admitted button and click on the first "here" link .. or</p>

<p><a href="https://www.sis.umd.edu/servlets/AdmitDec%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.sis.umd.edu/servlets/AdmitDec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p><a href="https://www.sis.umd.edu/servlets/AdmitDec%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.sis.umd.edu/servlets/AdmitDec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

54

<p>We're going on that website and entering id/password...but still getting</p>

<p>We are unable to offer you a decision on your application at this time. You will be contacted as soon as the decision process is complete. </p>

<p>Thank you for your interest in the University of Maryland</p>

<p>DO YOU THINK THE SITE IS BOGGED DOWN OR A PROBLEM WITH THE APPLICATION?????</p>

<p>btw - CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO GOT ACCEPTED!!</p>

55

<p>newdawn, did you apply priority??</p>

56

<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED! scholars program
COLLEGE: business and music school (didn't say in the email if i got in though)
STATS: out of state asian male new jersey, competitive public school
GPA: 3.815 W
SAT: 1470/1600, 2150/2400
RANK: no rank, but i'm around the 20%
ETC: crap load of music-related extra curriculars and tutoring, essay good, rec's great.</p>

<p>i'm 99.9% sure i'm going!</p>

57

<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED
COLLEGE: Smith School of Business
STATS: Out of State public school, from New Jersey, special business learning center program at competitve high school
White Male
GPA: ?? UW, 3.84 W
SAT: 1280/1600, 1960/2400 (12 Essay) (690 math, 590 verbal, 680 writing)
SAT IIs 710 Match IC; 680 US History
RANK: Top 20% of class
ETC: Decent ECs
Sick essays
Very good recs
Pretty good counselor Rec</p>

58

<p>DECISION: Accepted W/ Scholars
COLLEGE: College of Engineering
STATS: White Male, New Jersey Public HS
GPA: 3.8UW/4.4W
SAT: 1430/1600, 2150/2400
RANK: 3/326
ETC: Church Confirmation Leader, Varsity Soccer, Bowling, NHS Treasurer, Mu Alpha Theta President, Boystate, Peers as Leaders
Recs and Essays were good.</p>

<p>Can someone explain to me the difference between Scholars, Honors, and Gemstone? I was under the impression Honors and Gemstone were more pretigious and I'm a little disappointed I didn't get in.</p>

59

<p>YES, applied Priority....Way Early!</p>

60

<p>xeneise & everyone else who's a little disappointed -- from the perspective of a student at umd .... each of these programs excel at different things for different reasons, and students in each of these programs all think that theirs is the best (although i hear many complaints about the workload of gemstone, once people start wanting to get involved in campus actvities).</p>

<p><strong><em>THIS IS NOT HIGH SCHOOL (or CC)!!!</em></strong> nobody cares what level classes you're in, what special programs you're in, or what your GPA is, except for you. :)</p>

<p>your leadership activities, for example, make you a great candidate for the public leadership scholars program. or you could choose to get involved in something completely random, like arts scholars, or something related to your major, such as one of the technology-related programs.</p>

<p>i'm in honors, and i can tell you that, academics & course requirements aside, scholars is much more a true living-learning program than honors, especially your freshman year (this is something that i find to be a negative about the honors program). you'll make friends very quickly because you are living with the people in your colloquium class, and you all will be working together on different projects, etc.</p>

<p>so relax-- your stats are higher than some of those i've seen being accepted to honors. gemstone is very research-based and that doesn't interest everyone, or the admissions committee feels that some people are better suited for that type of program than others.</p>

<p>like i said before, most people really enjoy their program, and they all have different positive and negative aspects.</p>