<p>For Maryland, Spring Admission is offered to some of those who apply for Fall…it seems very numbers driven - more like their version of a waitlist. The up side is that you get in, the down side is that you might not get in the dorms. I think a lot of them even start in the fall, but they are off campus. “Freshman Connection” is what they call it - or perhaps that’s the name of the program that helps ‘connect’ these students to campus because of the ususual circumstances.</p>
<p>In state, for the '08 admission season, the GCs at my D’s HS mentioned that the cutoff for fall admission for SATs seemed to be 1250. They noticed that anyone below that cutoff was offered spring. My daughter was '09, and we noticed among her peers that those whose SATs were in that ballpark were offered spring admission. Some very good students were spring admits.</p>