<p>i just came back from a visit and the admissions told me that their SAT ranges are 1240-1360 (M+V)...thats a lot higher than i thought. Their range for last year in this book i have is 1150-1360 (M+V)...thats a big difference.. and their acceptance rate is 43%...MAryland is getting up there with top schools</p>
<p>The difference, they deferred everyone with low SATs to Fall admission. A 1200 3.5UW is no longer a garantee. I thinkit is becoming a long shot. Everyone has noticed the sudden denial of good kids. Spring admission was given out to SO many people. I am going to a grad party in a half an hour and the kid got spring admit to UMD but got into Umiami and decided to go to Umiami. Maybe they did that to boost their stats? Now we will know for sure when they update it on collegeboard and the USnews rankings come out. </p>
<p>Our admissions are much harder than our ranking shows. I had a discussion with someone about this. It seems if someone has the stats in the UMD range and they are OOS, they tend not to look at UMD because it is ranked low, which shouldn't matter but it does. They look at higher ranked school with equal or easier admissions. PSU is ranked higher but is MUCH easier to get into. PSU was my safety and UMD was my match and I live in UMD.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see the impact of the new SAT on the stats for everyone. My Mom read that in general, kids are scoring lower on the Verbal and Math sections of the new test than the old one. I certainly did - and I have to believe that although Maryland required the new test starting with our class - that they were looking at the results from the old test as well when they let me in! Thank goodness! I was told last year that I was borderline with a 1280 and a 3.7 weighted GPA - glad I fell on the right side of the line. </p>
<p>I too was admitted to Fall University Park at PSU, as well as Delaware. Supposedly OOS has a hard time getting onto PSU main campus for the Fall and many have to go to summer session to get in. From what I was hearing, seems like there may have been a lot of pressure on state schools this year - maybe tuition increases have hit the privates so hard that its driving more kids to the highly-ranked publics and they've been able to be more selective.</p>
<p>The split between Fall, Spring and reject for kids from my school to get into Maryland was kind of weird. It seems like they really put emphasis on the classes you took. There are a few girls who had similar GPA's - with decent scores on the new test (most kids from my school never took the old test) who were offered Spring - including a good friend of mine. We were shocked when I got Fall and she didn't - but the real difference between the two of us - when you scraped away the EC's and recs etc - was that I took honors and AP's and she didnt. Our weighted GPAs were about the same - but she took Level II college prep classes - but no honors etc. - so she got better grades to get the same weighted GPA - but perhaps didn't show that she could handle the tougher stuff.</p>
<p>I still say there is some x-factor out there on admissions that no one can ever document or quantify. The only school that waitlisted me, Villanova, was supposed to be a safety for a 100% catholic school kid with a tough curriculum and decent stats. I was even an officer in our religious organization among other things. I had been given the inside impression by the admissions folks there that I could expect EA acceptance. Guess I didn't "pray" enough? who knows?</p>
<p>But no matter - because UMCP was my first and best love - and will be interesting to see how the class of 2010 reps for the school in the polls.</p>
<p>To give an example of the randomness of college admissions, and more specifically Maryland's:</p>
<p>Buddy 1 took Calc as a Junior, got an A in it, took AP classes senior year, did reasonably well, finished high school with a 3.5ish GPA, gymnastics and softball, but about an 1800-1850 SAT.</p>
<p>Buddy 2 took Calc as a senior, took Comp Sci 4 as a senior, had a moderate GPA, but scored a 2040 on the SAT.</p>
<p>Buddy 1 gets Spring Admission straight off the bat.</p>
<p>Buddy 2 gets deferred until he sends his 1st semester grades, in which he got a 2.4 and a 2.6 I believe, and somehow gets Fall admission. Luckily he got in, because he was my roommate request. Buddy 1 is a girl whose both parents went to and graduated from Maryland.</p>
<p>Figure that out.</p>
<p>My friend didn't get into md even though she had good stats(what's been mentioned in this thread.. like 1300 3.6 gpa etc, both her parents graduated from there, and they even donated lots of $$$...</p>
<p>One other thing i have stressed before and will again for people applying this year. Apply priority. I know someone who was a really good friend of mine until sophomore year. He had 1 B total at the end of sophomore year. I didn't talk to him much after but have been the past few weeks. I was surprised to here he didn't get into UMD before and asked him why that was a few weeks ago. He said he got a few b's his junior year and had a 1980 SAT. I was surprised why it was he didn't get in. He said he applied after priority so that is my guess. Everyone apply before Dec. 1st or whenever the deadline is this year.</p>
<p>im in the class of 2011....i hope maryland is nicer to black applicants since i am one. I hope i can get in.</p>
<p>I second that Cheapseats--the admissions lady who came to my high school last year said they get about 80-90% of their incoming fall class from the priority deadline.</p>
<p>Isn't every school these days?</p>
<p>Hey I'm a junior in high school with a 3.52 GPA, a 1650 on the SAT(first time) alot of after school activities, and being asian, what do you think my chances are of getting into Maryland?</p>
<p>By simiply writing your name on the SAT, is it true that you get an automatic 600 points?</p>
<p>1650 for 3 sections?? not good.</p>
<p>autmoatic 200 "technically"... only because they don't give scores less than 200.. but really u don't get anything since it is scaled</p>
<p>bring asain, especially a guy. you are screwed.</p>
<p>i graduated high school in 2005, and my stats were:
SAT: 1380/1600
GPA: 3.9 and 4.71</p>
<p>got into electrical engineering, gemstone (chose honors)
GOT A TOTAL of $2.5k in scholarships from UMCP</p>
<p>any black or Hispanic person with my credentials OR below got a full ride. go figure I am an asian male in engineering. we get more crap than white males since we are the most OVERREPRESENTED.</p>
<p>3% of americans are asian males. around 15% are in engineering. too many of us according to the government. black people, around 16% of US population, but around 2% or less in engineering, and the black people are usually Africans, as in non-Americans.</p>
<p>Affirmative Action sucks.</p>
<p>People say slavery helped whites, hurt blacks, dud nothgin to asians.
Affirmative Action helps blacks, but hurt whites and asians.</p>
<p>asians get screwed. sorry, i vented :p</p>
<p>it's not big news</p>
<p>but glad there are more engineers :D</p>
<p>Maryland Hopeful...
I would start looking at other schools. SAT scores are Maryland's biggest determining factor. My husband and I are both graduates, donate money, etc. and our daughter with a 3.5 and 1750 on the SAT did not get accepted. She was raised a TERP. We are at every football game and she had always said that was where she wanted to go. Fortunately we knew how difficult it was to get in with low SAT scores even if everything else looks great. So we made her look at other colleges. She fell in love with one of them and it became her first choice. She will attend there in the fall. We are still TERPS, always will be, but this year when they call and ask for money I'll let them know it is going elsewhere. They even have a special rejection letter for children of alumni...all about being loyal to the university BUT....!</p>
<p>=[</p>
<p>marylandmom3 im sorry to hear that.</p>