I applied priority last year and heard about merit scholarships in April.
Dang, @jibler, it was that late last year? @Njrunner, if you look at my post FWIW, a few years ago we were notified of merit scholarships at the end of February. So, the long and short is you don’t hear about merit awards with your admissions decisions, but you will hear about it before the big April 1st notification day of admissions from all of the other colleges so that you have time to take that into consideration before making your final commitment to whatever school you choose. The deadline for making that choice for all schools is May 1st.
@maryversity I looked back, and I got notified in March, actually.
Ah, that makes more sense…still a little later than my son’s round and later than you would have liked, I’m sure
I personally think they will release on Jan 30, just because its a friday.
@cjw1997 @ging23 Did they really say theyll release on tuesday? Anyone else make sure yet? I really hope this is true lol, kinda freaking out
Not to add to the confusion but I also heard that decisions would begin to be released the 20th, which seems odd based on trends from the past years. But the sooner the better!! This came from a friend’s parent who called admissions.
@rockvillegirl28 are you sure they said decisions? Because the 20th is also the regular deadline so there might be some misunderstanding? and what do you mean by begin to be released? is it rolling
Its 31st there is a lot of misunderstanding. 20th is the regular decision deadline and 31st is Priority decision day
Decisions will be released BY the 31th so theoretically they could be released tommorrow fingers crossed
Any chance the decisions will be released tomorrow?
Tomorrow is possible, of course, but it wouldn’t fit UMD’s past patterns. Any time from the 27th on looks like a reasonable bet. Be pleasantly surprised if it’s earlier than that!
This link suggests that priority decisions were released on January 28th last year:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/1610091-priority-applicant-decision-thread-and-statistics-p1.html
In 2013, it was January 29th:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/1452162-official-university-of-maryland-class-of-2017-decisions-thread-p7.html
In 2012, it was January 31st:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-maryland-college-park/1282489-official-umd-priority-class-of-2016-decisions.html
My bet is January 26th. about 5:00 pm
Well then why would they say the 20th? they said they will “release” on the 20th which seems quite straightforward
I called them on Wednesday. They said “it’d be released by the 31st”. When I asked whether or not they knew exactly what date it would be, they said no.
@siewamo oh okay, then this 20th stuff is nonsense
Is there supposed to be a "under review " sign on my portal? It just says which documents were received and no release date or anything…freaking me out here plz someone answer for me
@kimmi13 that’s interesting…all mine says is “Application Status: Submitted”.
People didn’t start saying that umd was saying the 20th until Friday- before then they were presumably just saying before the 31st. I suggest we all just call them tommorrow and hope for the best!
Chill people. A watched pot never boils.