It looks like these two hotels are the closest: The Hotel at the University of Maryland and College Park Marriott. Do you recommend staying there? Other recommendations? Walk-ability to the campus would be nice, if possible.
I highly recommend The Hotel. Itâs the first place I try to book anytime I need to stay overnight near campus. Great place to stay and literally across the street from campus. They offer a shuttle to campus but itâs only about a 15+ min walk to the student center (The Stamp building), other buildings are closer than that, and obviously some are farther away. But typically admitted student days start at The Stamp. If you are coming at a non-peak time rates can be very reasonable. College Park Marriot is also walkable to campus (basically opposite corner of campus from The Hotel).
Cambria is another nice hotel closeish to campus. Technically walkable but a fair amount farther. It and The Hotel are both located right on Rt. 1/Baltimore Avenue.
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Thank you, that was helpful.
I second staying at The Hotel. We stayed there several nights when our D graduated. We enjoyed it, but prices were bumped up for Graduation weekend
Yes this year The Hotel requires a 3 night minimum stay at I think the lowest rate of $495 for graduation weekend.
Yeah, I think we paid $300 a night (3 nights min) in 2018. I think that was the year that they opened.
no UMD admit days posted yet
BWI hands down if you plan to drive to College Park from the airport. There are trains, but logistically not optimal.
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Your daughter canât choose her dorm. The school assigns dorms to the freshman. So visiting the dorms wonât help. If she wants to join an LLC, she can apply for one even though she wasnât invited.
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My son did a summer college course from our state university that does have an option for grade, and can be used for credits. He didnât list it in courses, just put it in the enrichment section. He was accepted EA, no issues. I think they are just covering their backs for missing these applications in the first place.
But in the enrichment section, did he specify that the course was non-credit?
he just mentioned he took the course, no mention of grades or credits
Just wow. Same exact situation with my daughter (took summer courses, can be used for credits, put in enrichment section), completely different outcome. She still doesnât have a decision and I had to fight to even have her application considered. Leaves a very bad taste in our mouths, whatever the outcome. @mdmamma1707, it didnât matter whether for credit or not. Two of her courses were and two werenât, and they still made me chase down and supply âcertificates of completionâ for the two that didnât give credit because there was no transcript.
Truly weird, all of this. FWIW our daughter also had taken a summer university course, not for credit, and mentioned it in her application and was admitted without anything ever being said about it. Iâm sorry that some of you are going through this. It seems really random and not fair. I mean the most important thing here is that the applications were marked as complete by them. So if they are marked completeâŠ
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I still donât understand why they admit kids directly to CS vs L&S when they are taking the exact same classes and the only difference is maintaining a 2.7 vs 2.0 average. I donât see how this saves space or really serve any purpose. They put my kid in L&S route even though he has AP credits for 2 of the 3 gateway classes and will test out of the 3rd. By sending him the L&S route he canât live with other engineering students, who are generally where his friends are.
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I understand the frustration and you are correct that it really doesnât make a difference. CS became in LEP because of the number of students applying to the major. Housing has nothing to do with your major. Some programs are housed together but majors are not. Many kids end up finding roommates online through an admitted students page, facebook page or through mutual friends. The fact that he is in L&S wonât be a factor in where he lives.
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The CS LEP program is arguably one of the easier ones to get into from L&S-if you are good at CS of course. I agree that it doesnât make much sense either since the requirements are almost the same as being in the major. Historically, before CS became an LEP several years ago, there was a decent percentage of students who couldnât handle the gateway courses and transferred out to other majors. In reality, if you canât get the grades to get into the LEP, you probably would have ended transferring out by your second year if you were a direct admit. With that said, there seems to be a lot of CS students in L&S who likely will be successful in the major.
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My son was admitted to the FIRE program, can he apply to an LLC? Would he have to switch from FIRE to LLC or can he stay in FIRE but get to live in an LLC?
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As @sdevorefl pointed out, a studentâ Major has nothing to do with housing. If your child knows others that he wants to room with, they can mutually request each other to ResLife. I donât know what the current mechanism is, but it used to be just an email request from both students. Just as a side note, engineering students are in the A, James Clark School of Engineering and CS students are in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
Historically, about 50% of college students change their major. It is my opinion that it usually happens in Freshman year. Different students will complete the gateway courses at different times, so some may transfer in at the of their first semester, some at the end of their first year, some later.
The LEP vs L&S debate is not a new one at UMD. Some colleges use weed-out courses to thin the ranks of certain majors. My D did a transfer from L&S to a LEP and so did her fiance. Every student/parent has to decide what is best for them.
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Thanks for the clarification - as you may have suspected, I thought CS would be in the COE so the Virtus engineering living community might apply; I didnât realize UMD had it in the college of Science. I guess the weed out theory is understandable but it doesnât really seemed aligned with the candidate profile - my kid anyway who already has an A in college Calc 3 on his transcript they want to see if he weeds out in Calc 1? And he got an A (AP score 5) in the equivalent gateway CS class 4 years ago. I meanâŠnot be easily offended but I guess I am. LOL. Probably the real takeaway is they have enough of his profile and it would be hard to reject him but they donât really care if he comes either. I assume they have lower yield on the gateway path realizing it will feel like a lesser offer and thus help their over-enrollment.
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