<p>I applied to the University of Maryland- College Park for the Fall of 2009. However, even though I got in, it was the Spring of 2010 semester that I was accepted into. </p>
<p>Can anyone please list the possibilities as to why this might have happened? Could it be based on academic achievements, test scores, or maybe the fact that I applied about 5 days before the deadline?
Thank you very much.</p>
<p>are you in state or oos? what are your stats? UMD doesn't waitlist, so they do Spring Admit instead. This decision means that your stats were up to par for admission into the University, but that too many other qualified applicants were admitted to fall '09, so they admitted us to spring '10. As long as it was before the deadline i don't think that would affect your admissions decision. I had a 91.33 avg with 7 APs, and an 1820 SAT and I received spring admit as well. It is worth noting that they don't look at the SAT writing and I only had a 500M which is 100 pts below their middle 50% range with a CR score of 630, so your SAT could have done it if it was as unbalanced as mine.</p>
<p>The school looks at everything. Some people with less APs will be accepted prior to others. Why? Because they took the hardest curriculumn available at their school and probably also had some EC's to prove that they were a more rounded student. It is not all about numbers, it is about the student also. There are studies that show sometimes the book smart academic child does not fare as well. You can have the hardest course and be valedictorian and not be accepted before the kid who is in the top 10%, but was also HS president, held a job, volunteered and played sports. College is the first time that most of you will have to manage your time successfully, those with good grades and lots of ECS are less of a risk than the "book smart" kid that has spent their life in only the academic arena. Many get there and go bezerk because there is so much to do and then they can't manage their time and their grades suffer</p>
<p>that's what I don't understand, a kid from my school is indian, had a 94 avg with 7 APs(eng lit,eng lang,world,us history, govt, psych,bio) with a 28 ACT and NHS, Spanish NHS, NYLF on Medicine nominee, ran spring and winter track all 4 years of HS, and had 300+ community service hours at a hospital. He was admitted spring semester. How does that make sense?</p>
<p>I dont think it is because you applied 5 days before the deadline because i applied six hours before the deadline and still got in to fall semester. My test scores are not good at all, yet my course work is really rigorous and my essay was not that great :( I think it really depends on what school you went to and if you are instate or out of state. Were you instate or out of state?</p>
<p>28 ACT = 1250 that is the 50% avg.</p>
<p>Our DS who is a fresh. had
33 ACT=1440
1390/1600 SAT
NHS
FHS
Habitat for Humanity
National Bronze Champion for Jr Olympics Tae Kwon DO
2 Time State Champ
Worked as a life guard 20 hrs +/week for 2 yrs
APs(all validated) and Jump start
4.17 w gpa</p>
<p>It also depends on the major...music...you are in...engineering or business you are pushing it. Finally, those essays don't get tossed they are actually read. Same with the recs. that could have been the make or break.</p>
<p>I remember our DS's if yo could ask 1 question to 1 person who would be and what would you ask. I am a Mom, but it blew me away, b/c I never would have thought to ask it AND it really tied into the major he wanted (govt and politics)
His question was to Truman knowing what the A Bomb did how did you justify dropping it a second time. There were many people who IMHO took an easy route/inside the box questions, this was more of a finesse question regarding the war, especially anybody studying WWII would typically pose questions to Hitler, FDR, Churchill, Patton etc.</p>
<p>I am from out-of-state (NY). My stats were not that great either.
I got an 1200/1600 in the SAT.
Subject Tests, even worse scores.
My GPA was 91.90/100.00.
Rank: 22/450
Even so, I think my essay could have made a positive difference, as the UMD essay was the essay that I took the longest time to write compared to my other college essays. It turned out to be good.
And talking about extra credits, I might just have the most in my high school. Key Club Activity Co-director, Church group coordinator, lots of volunteering in church and library, Robotics Club, Arista, TASCORP STEM member, president of trivia club, and some more less trivial ones.
And I applied under Engineering, Electrical. </p>
<p>Thank you again.</p>
<p>Thank you too everyone for taking their time and patience to comment here.</p>