I submitted my application early action to UMD and was hoping to clarify a couple things:
@wondering84 - According to the UMD Admissions website, decisions will be released “by Feb 1”
https://admissions.umd.edu/apply/application-deadlines
Decisions usually come out several days before that. You will get an email telling you to check the Coalition portal for your decision. Last year decisions were released on Jan 26.
By State Charter, UMD is required to have a Freshman class that is about 70 - 80 percent in-state.
For Engineering, here is an FAQ
“The Clark School of Engineering receives approximately 3,000 applications each year from talented students who have been admitted to the University of Maryland. Engineering is a Limited Enrollment Program (LEP), and due to class size restrictions and other resource limitations, is not able to admit every student who applies to be an Engineering major as a freshman. As such, the Clark School will typically only admit between 1,700 and 1,800 students each year as direct freshmen admits.”
These are 3,000 who have been accepted to UMD
UMD will probably get 35,000 total applications and accept maybe 12000 - 13000, with 4000 or so, actually enrolling
See the following thread for more Application Review Info
Thanks for the thorough answer!
In general, the OOS acceptance rate of up to 30% at Maryland is actually quite generous compared to other state public universities. Depending on which state you are from, being OOS could actually be a hook rather than a disadvantage. What I mean is that they want geographic diversity represented in their OOS admissions. Fwiw, Maryland tends to be a particularly popular choice for students in NY/NJ/PA/VA. So, if you are from the midwest, for example, I’d say that being OOS status is actually a good thing.
Regarding the school of engineering in specific, here are some more details fyi (posted here https://eng.umd.edu/facts-and-figures):
Total undergraduate enrollment: 4,116
Total fall '16 freshman class: 634
Total graduate enrollment: 2,166
Fall '16 external transfer class: 263
Fall '16 internal transfer class: 400
Undergraduate enrollment: 24.5 percent female, 14.7 percent underrepresented minorities, 33.7 percent minorities
Graduate enrollment: 22.3 percent female, 9.7 percent underrepresented minorities, 17.8 percent minorities
Overall enrollment: 23.7 percent female, 13 percent underrepresented minorities, 28.2 percent minorities
Information about the class of 2022 is as follows:
Average GPA
4.454
ACT Scores
Composite
25th Percentile: 32
75th Percentile: 35
Math Scores
25th Percentile: 31
75th Percentile: 35
Science Scores
25th Percentile: 31
75th Percentile: 35
New SAT Scores
Combined Math/Critical Reading SAT Scores
25th Percentile: 1380
75th Percentile: 1500
SAT Math Scores
25th Percentile: 710
75th Percentile: 780
Women and Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Minorities (URMs)
268 women (31 percent)
129 URMs (15 percent)
Honors College and College Park Scholars
353 (41 percent) of all ENGR confirmed students have been selected for the Honors College
252 students (29 percent) are listed in College Park Scholars
Thanks for the reply. I’ve heard that number thrown around for GPA. Do you know how Maryland calculates incoming GPA? Same way as UC schools? I only ask because my school works on a 100 point scale for both weighted and unweighted and I’m wondering how Maryland would translate that (considering AP and school designated honors courses).
Hmm…unfortunately, I don’t. I do recall them stating (at an admissions event on campus several years ago) that since every school uses their own version of gpa, they recalculate everyone’s gpa based on their own scale. My memory is a bit fuzzy whether they said their scale was 4.5 or 5, but I’m leaning towards thinking they said 4.5. So, for example, my kids went to a high school that used a 7.0 for their weighted scale so obviously their gpa was very different also. I really don’t know how that translates on a 100 point scale, but suffice it to say it’s equivalent to a solid A average for engineering.
They do look at honors and AP designations in general, but engineering primarily cares about challenging yourself in math and sciences. If it helps to know, my son only took honors/AP in math and science classes (he has no interest in history or English) but was a direct admit to engineering.