@maryversity do you know if Honors college and Scholars comes with acceptance? or do we have to wait even more?
Yes, honors or scholars invites are noted with your admission decision as well as if you are admitted to the major you applied to. However, the online decision can be a little tricky to understand if you are admitted to your major (if you don’t know what to look for) especially for those who applied to LEP majors since u have to look for “advising college” to see if it matches to the college you expect (for example A James Clark for engineering, Smith for business, Merrill for journalism, etc). If the advising college states “letters and sciences” it means you are admitted to the university but not the major you applied to. The hard copy that follows is more clear - and will be backed up by an additional letter welcoming you to your specific LEP (well, at least engineering gave an extra welcome letter to engineering). You will also get an extra welcome to honors or scholars letter that will detail that program. (I did post this info in FWIW…)
@maryversity okay great, I applied to CS. Im so excited
@maryversity I’ve always had trouble distinguishing between honors and scholars program could you clear that up please? Which is better?
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I would say that Honors and Scholars are a matter of fit. Check out these links
honors.umd.edu
scholars.umd.edu
@Prodigee I recently read a Washington Post article that said the EA acceptance rate for the class of 2019 is 47%. Here is the link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/early-admission-rates-for-class-of-2019/2014/12/18/67db5036-86c4-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html
Oh nice! Anyone else have any news on release?
@Prodigee Actually, after viewing the article again, that’s actually last years acceptance rate in total, not EA
@intomwetrust oh alright, prob around there though
Anybody else see this tweet from UMD admissions? https://mobile.twitter.com/ApplyMaryland/status/557935920574660608/photos
Seems like they do admissions sitting around a table. Also looks like lots of acceptance letter
@roasted36 Yea saw it. That pic assures me that decisions go out next week and not this week. Looks like a lot of work in the pic
I think they will go out next week too, but in the photo it seems like they’re mostly just getting letters ready to mail.
@roasted36 yea, so decisions are probably all done. Don’t know why they wouldn’t release this week
Also there seems to be a keyboard not connected to anything? Maybe for projecting applications on screen that’s out of frame for group review? Or it could be random haha
Maybe it’ll be tonight if they’re all done! Here’s hoping 
@roasted36 haha yea, not likely though
What time???
@Luna52311: If decisions were to come out today, the email would probably come out around 5PM EST. That being said, I don’t think they’ll be coming out today. I’m still jaded from yesterday, haha! Also, I think UMD begins mailing the letters and updates the portal on the same day. Nobody really knows the exact day, which is why there’s such rampant speculation on this thread…
And do they really sit at a round table and look at each application? That’s kind of scary, I feel like I’m on trial! I guess it’s better that way though, so you have multiple opinions on each application…
EDIT: not sure if anyone saw this as well, but they also posted a video version on their Instagram, definitely looks like they’re just putting together items for mailing! http://instagram.com/p/yH02YfFsi5/?modal=true
Any day now…
Thanks!