University of Maryland-College Park Class of 2021 Discussion

When do we find out about scholarship information

@adoxography Deadline to apply to scholars is February 17th @ 5pm. You select your top 3 choices of which program you would like to participate int; Confirmation of Scholars does not mean you are accepting admission into UMD; The deadline is early because they have to see how many students can be placed into each community; If you do not make a selection by the deadline you have to complete the waitlist form and you may not get into one of your top 3 community choices; You will receive a letter in about a week, but you can go on their website ahead of time and make the selection before the letter is mailed to you; My daughter completed hers last night.
Use this link: https://www.scholars.umd.edu/ and select invited students at the top and read about each of the programs; You can make your selection at that time; You do not have to choose based on your major; It might be good to concentrate on something outside of your major

@KimQuat thanks so much!! Just did it!

Found a huge mistake on my son’s application. It seems he put Spring 2017 instead of FAll…he is devastated. He has reached out to the admissions counselor for our area, but no word. We are hoping the system picked up the mistake since he is obviously a senior in high school, he has had his info in since 10/9. I even looked over the application before he sent it…I don’t know what to do for him.

@kramerismynamer Sorry to see this. Any ideas why? GPA? Such strong ACT. And EC’s. Have you gotten into any other schools

I would definitely call the main admissions and see what they can do. best case scenario he gets accepted for spring and just bump him to fall if theres any slots open. worst case scenario they defer him to regular decision for consideration

@bosmom17

Has anyone not heard back yet that applied before the priority deadline or am I the only one?

@YoohooAddict yo add me (idk how to PM on mobile) mex wul is my name on groupme

@extratang I’ll either need your email or phone # that’s associated with ur groupme. If you want, I can pm u and u can respond back as it’ll notify you?

i applied before the deadline and still have not heard back. i was told everyone was supposed to be notified by Feb. 1

Same here @pccolunga

Anyone get into honors with FIRE?

@itsgettingreal17 Haven’t heard of that yet. Did you?

No. But my D wants a research program and FIRE looks great. Is there a similar program in honors?

@itsgettingreal17 I think Honors program is pretty intense and doing FIRE along with Honors is going to be difficult since FIRE seems to be research intense

@KimQuat wait, so if I was accepted into Scholars I still have to fill out the form by February 17? I’m confused only because it doesn’t say anything like that on the website or in the acceptance letter…

@yourstrulyjune - The Scholars program has several different programs and you have to identify which one(s) you would like to be in. You can see the individual Scholars programs under the “Programs” tab in the following link

https://www.scholars.umd.edu/

Also look under the “Invited Students” tab