Hello, everyone, today my friend who went to a college information meeting told me that University of Maryland still accepted SAT score after November 1 which is the early admission deadline. He said that you can still take SAT on November 7th and send that grade to UMD for early decision. But he told me that i need to send that score during SAT registration, i want to know what does that mean? Does that mean to click that blue button on my SAT page says “send grade when available?.” Because i remember there is no option allows me to send grade during the time i pay for registration. Thank you for your help!!!
The paragraph below is from the UMD Application deadline web page. You may want to email your UMD regional admin representative to verify what your friend told you. The word “All” usually means All (application, LORs, Transcript, and SAT scores). There is some mechanism for sending scores automatically for free, but I’m not sure what it is these days. Good Luck
“Applications are considered complete when the online application and all required documents have been received. All materials must be received by the appropriate deadline for consideration, and it is the applicant’s responsibility to confirm receipt of documents through the application portal. Please note that it may take 2-5 days after submitting your application for you to be able to view the status of your application and supporting documents online”
When do most of fall 2016 decisions start coming out?
If you apply by the priority deadline of November 1st, you will hear by the last week of January. Typically, it’s been anywhere from the 28-31st of January.
I know it’s early. But, has anyone heard of anyone being accepted or denied yet?
@zipbags - According to the UMD website, the Priority Deadline Decision Release Date is “by February 1 2016”. Based on how UMD released decisions last year, I believe this will be the date ALL decisions are released. In any event it is Extremely unlikely that decisions will be released before the last week in January 2016,
Everyone gets their decisions on the same day, at the same time. Good Luck.
SoofDad is correct…all decisions for everyone applying by priority deadline will come out on the same day. There is no rolling decision.
Thanks for the info. Just stinks to have to wait another 3months.
@maryversity or @SoofDad Wondering if you know the reason they wait until the last day of January to release all of the decisions?
Thanks!
@zipbags Well, I don’t know for sure, but I can hazard a guess…I think it’s really to give everyone a fair shot. There are only so many spots available for the freshman class, and they have to admit more than in order to reach their goal number of enrolled students. Of the number that they will admit, they have to reserve some admission spots for those that don’t apply by the priority deadline.
So, as an example, let’s say that the number of students they will admit from the priority applicants is 100 (obviously, this is a fictitious number for the sole purpose of an example), and they have 300 priority applicants. It makes sense to wait for all 300 applications to be submitted before they decide which 100 they will accept because admissions decisions involve a lot of factors.
Now put yourself in their shoes. How much time would it take for you to evaluate 300 applicants? Not only do you need to evaluate 300 applicants and only choose 100, but once you decide to admit those 100, you have to send those applications to the next review stage (consideration for honors/scholars/civicus, etc) and also to a potential third review stage since the applicants that apply for a LEP (limited enrollment program) will have a separate admission decision made by the LEP college/department (of course, the LEP could be decided before the special programs).
So, if you break things down, you are potentially only allowing 4 weeks for each admissions decision stage. How did I come up with four weeks for each stage (which again, I am stating solely for example purposes and may not be anything at all like the reality)? The time lapse from submission on Nov 1 to decision on Jan 31 can be divided equally into 4 weeks Nov, 4 weeks Dec and 4 weeks Jan. (yes, I realize some months have 5 weeks, but again, I am only hypothesizing to give an opinion on what I think the reason is)
To me, that seems pretty fair. Consider that they get not just 300, but several thousands of applicants (they “typically receive more than 26,000 applications for a fall freshman class of approximately 4,000”). So, it’s not so unreasonable to understand why they need 3 months to evaluate every applicant in the best possible light. Now, adding to that, of course, you need to understand that there is a deluge of applicants sending information all in a short time frame in order to meet the Nov 1 deadline. All the information comes from different sources (the applicant, the high school, the college board, the authors of the letters of rec) and before you can even begin to evaluate the applications, all of the information associated with each applicant has to be matched to their account.
So…does it still sound like an unreasonable time frame?
Trust me, I know how frustrating it is to wait…However, it’s infinitely better to have a set time frame to count down to than not having any clue of when decisions will come out. Even though it comes after the Dec 1 decisions from schools that have an EA/ED application process, it is still way before the April 1st date!
Hang in there, and best of luck 
@zipbags = @maryversity summed it up very well. I’d just like to add that last year UMD received 28,000 applications and I would not be surprised if they got 30,000 this year. Also, the time frame involved (Nov/Dec/Jan) includes Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Not times well know for productivity. Good Luck!
My daughter also applied to Penn State. They do rolling. But, they also get 50k applicants. So we have been told while some people will hear over the next few weeks. Most won’t hear until December or by the end of Jan.
The other thing you have to consider is that UMD reviews each application, without any required supplements, and decides where to place students: Scholars, Honors, Freshman Connection, or no admission. This is all done from one app. Some colleges my daughter has applied to has multiple applications for various special programs.