I have a son auditioning this Saturday, too. I guess we’ll know by mid-February. I think he has a decent chance of being admitted to the university (34 ACT, 1480 SAT, 3.95 wGPA, OOS) but no clue about the music major. He does not plan to double major.
My godson was admitted via Freshman Connection- 3.8/4.2 with a 1260 SAT and 30 credits from CC with a 4.0 in those credits. He is now a sophomore just admitted to College of Engineering.
Went back through the threads for the past two years of results.
2018 - Released at 8 pm on Friday January 26.
2017 - Released at 4:45 pm on Friday January 27
I would expect results to be released on January 25th this year.
@SumbryMom and @mountainmomof3 Sorry I am late to respond…I may be able to shed some light on the comment that “From the information session we went to last year, general admissions come out by February 1, but engineering is also a specialty program so those will come out “a couple of weeks later”.”
@SoofDad was absolutely correct about engineering being a LEP (not a specialty) and that you will know if you are admitted to engineering immediately upon release of admissions since the advising college will either say A. James Clark (direct admit to engineering) or letters and sciences (admit to university, need to do gateway classes and do internal transfer to engineering).
So, the “couple of weeks later” thing is probably referring to the actual welcome letter from school of engineering. The general university admissions has a separate letter that is sent out/timed to arrive as closely as possible as the online notifications. Then, maybe a week or two or three later, the school of engineering sends out its own welcome letter to give you more specific information about engineering. My son got three letters of “welcome”: university, college park scholars program, engineering, received in that order. Scholarship letters came out much later.
Hi. I live in New Jersey and go to a really competitive school. Can you let me know my chances at the school. Also will I be put in freshman connection
GPA : 3.9 (weighted)
SAT: 1380
Good essays and rec
2 sport athlete
Lots of clubs
Showed a ton of interest (it’s my top school)
Won a big award
If you made the 11/1 priority deadline, I think you have a good chance as a liberal arts admit. Did you apply to an LEP? That might be a little harder, if you did. I think you will at least get Freshman Connection, but I’m guessing a regular admit for you.
I applied priority and to liberal arts undecided.
I think you have a solid chance @collegelifeeeee Keep us posted.
UMD Admissions posted this on twitter today.
As a reminder, students who applied by the November 1 priority deadline will receive admission decisions by February 1. Students will receive an email when their decision is available to be viewed in their MyCoalition account.
Admissions bus is out notifying a few lucky students! I guess i shouldn’t expect it to roll out to CO? 
New Jersey’s close!
You can find a link to the UMD tour bus if you search for it
@SoofDad - lol, I am obsessively following UMD admissions on Facebook. This will be such a long week!
I would guess decisions are released this Friday. The past two years they have been released on the last Friday in January.
@DCNatFan - I would think so too. I am just having fun following the admissions bus.
It’s hard to tell. but I would expect decisions by Friday at the latest
I’m a freshman at UMD right now. Last year on the 26th I got my acceptance for spring 2019 and was really disappointed. I didn’t want to wait until January and be alone at home. But then I found out about FC and it turned out amazingly. I remember how stressful this process is and I just want to let everyone know it works out in the end. Also don’t count FC out! If anyone wants to ask me anything at all about the process or FC or school life let me know!
What is FC?
Freshman Connection. It allows students who were admitted for the Spring semester to start their college career at UMD, in the Fall
It makes it seem likes it’s a whole process that’s much different than regular admits but it’s almost exactly the same except FC kids take classes later (from 3-9). They want to fill up later classes because they’re less popular. Nobody knows or cares if you’re FC and you still get housing and every other opportunity regular admits get. It’s only for the first semester too.