Warm greetings from Maryland!
In the coming days, you will receive a special packet in the mail. Be on the lookout for it. It contains recognition that reflects your significant academic leadership and accomplishments.
What is this?
It is probably an invitation to interview for the B/K scholarship
My D as well. Fingers crossed!!
I didn’t get an email. When are we getting the acceptance letter in the mail?
I’m sure that the acceptance letters were mailed, but UMD can’t control how long it takes the postal system to deliver them.
That’s the BK invite I think.
Can I inquire if those of you who received the “something special” email are OOS or in-state? Just curious and holding onto hope that maybe my in-state DD will still get that “something special” even though she didn’t get an email. Looking at the thread from last year, there were some students who said they never received an email, but did receive the BK packet … at least a couple of them were in-state (I didn’t dig much … just enough to see a couple to give us that shred of hope…). Congrats to all who did receive it, and good luck! As an aside, we are in-state, 20 minutes from UMD … she received her portal acceptance to the Honors College and engineering last Friday … but nothing in the mail yet.
OOS
Ah darn. I am an OOS applicant, so I guess I did not get it. If I got it, UMD would have been my first choice.
Hopefully this is Banneker Key. Would love to attend UMD on a full ride!
Darn, no email. UMD not possible without it
@perch1024 and @barackhussein – note that I’m grasping at straws with the theory that the emails went to OOS students; I don’t know that for sure. I do know that if you look at the BK thread from 2016, there were students there who did not receive an email but DID receive a BK packet. And in that thread there was a current BK freshman who posted that he never received an email either, but received the packet as well. So, we’ll all just wait and see…
We are OOS. Remaining hopeful but…
Dang no email. No BK invite most likely takes UMD out of the picture for me.
The email says that if the something special isn’t received by 2/15, contact Ashley Johnson. I looked her up on UMD’s website and she is “Coordinator of Scholarships & Special Programs.”
Do we dare hope? The wait has been long and painful, but UMD is still D’s #1, so we are really hoping it is what we think it is.
No email, so sounds like no shot at B/K for my D. >:P
Did anyone get a package but NOT get the email?
Can someone post the contact info for Ashley Johnson? She is the admissions rep for my region but I can’t find her contact info anywhere. Thanks!