@Empire007 - The required Scholars courses (and required Honors course for those in Honors) all satisfy GenEd graduation requirements, so there is not necessarily any actual increase in the total number of courses taken. However some students do take more courses than required for various reasons.
Hi everyone! I was accepted, OOS (New York), weighted GPA of 94.05, 6 AP’s, 7 honors, superscored SAT 1280, 2 sports (captain of both), 3 clubs, many volunteer hours… i was honestly surprised that I even got accepted and I also got a FIRE invitation and I read the website but am still super unsure about the program and not fully understanding what it entails if anyone can explain, thanks and congrats to all accepted students!
Thanks @SoofDad for the feedback. Is there any benefit to taking these scholars courses or is it better to opt out and utilize the extra time and effort to just focus on GenEd classes?
@Empire007 - The point I was trying to make is that the scholars courses ARE GenEd courses.
The following website can be used to look at courses being offered at UMD. They do not offer the same courses every semester, but this can give you an idea of what they have.
@Empire007 I’m honestly not sure that taking scholars recommended courses per se has a marketable benefit, as much as being in scholars gives you a smaller community of people to interact with on a somewhat regular basis - it helps with the transition from high school to a large university. My son’s core group of friends as a freshman was a direct result of scholars. They remained friendly even after the program ended. In addition, scholars programs do bring some of the career services prep to you as part of the program. So, if you are not part of scholars, you can still get the same resume writing/career fair prep but you just have to seek it out yourself. I wouldn’t easily dismiss the idea of resume writing because the resume you prepared to apply for college is entirely different than the one you will need for a job search. Also, if your major is in STEM, Cambridge Community is clutch for ease of getting to classes.
My son, now a junior at UMD, did the FIRE program. It is a 3 semester commitment, It helps with designing and planning out a research project. This is helpful if your high school did not offer this education in its classes. My son found it helpful. It was not overly demanding either.
It took about 3 days for the housing preference form to show as completed on the coalition site.
when does scholarship information come out?
Last year it came out around 2/28.
For those EA students that did not get their decision on time, looks like some have received decision after few days.
Did anyone in this situation get acceptance in Honors college?
@MrProton2023 I don’t know if you are also referring to those who got their decision late because they applied to Music school, but my son was invited to Honors college.
@reads2222 I was not referring to the Music school.
has anyone received any scholarships info? a little annoyed that my son dint get. anything from bannerkey. He
had 103 weighted average & is a NMF with 1560 SATs. Never get through to admissions and have left # & no call backs. Did reach financial aid< which I am told will be out march 1 & they said scholarships have gone out. Thinking that has to be wrong. We are OOS. My son has been also accepted to the honors college & into his major computer science.
@lovemycats - I think if ALL merit had gone out at least someone on CC would have reported an award. I imagine we will hear of some Presidential awards in a week or so based on previous years.
There are only so many Banneker awards and many, many qualified students. My son did not receive an invite either. I cautioned my S19 that while his stats (36/1570/NMF/lots of strong EC’s/leadership/service) were in line with previous Banneker students, his stats also looked a lot like kids that did NOT receive the award or even get honors. Merit is limited at UMD. There are so many qualified kids and only so much merit money to go around.
Good luck to your S and hopefully he will hear some good news soon regarding the Presidential awards. UMD is a wonderful place - my 2 brothers, my BIL and I are all alumni and we all have done quite well as Terps.
@lovemycats - There are only 400 or less BK full and partial scholarships given out. There are about 400 Dean;s scholarships only available to in-state students, I have never been able to get a number for the President’s scholarships, but I would be Very surprised if it is even as high as 1000. These scholarships are given to Admitted students which probably number close to 12000 My D was in the Honors College and only one of her friends got a scholarship (it was a full BK).
I spoke to someone else in admissions after posting this & was told that scholarships won’t be out till April 1 for merit. I am surprised so late. Not sure who is right. An idea?
@lovemycats April 1st is the official date, but they have been out earlier the last few years. Let’s hope the trend continues.
Scholarships out son just got an email
I have been getting quite a few emails from UMD over the past couple of weeks. Yesterday about studying abroad for the summer and/or fall and the other about the EDGE overnight program. Anyone else get the same?