@litlhoward2468 Last year they came out on the last Tuesday of January late in the afternoon.
Just saw a tweet that admissions will be closed Jan 22-24 for the upcoming snowstorm 
Do you think this means decisions won’t come out Mon or Tues?
They did say they were “finalizing” them though
I think it’s safe to say that decisions will NOT be out on Monday. It’s possible that the impeding blizzard will force the school to be closed Monday also.
I personally think that decisions will be out Feb 1 for the following reason:
Last year, UMD did something different.
On the last Sunday of January 2015, a bunch of Admissions people and Testudo piled into an Official UMD Tour Bus and hand-delivered acceptances to 6 randomly selected local students. There were YouTube videos and it was written up in the Washington Post. They decided that they wanted to share in the excitement. This caused quite a stir here on CC with everyone wanting decisions right then. The rest of the decisions were released the next day at the usual time.
Here is a link to the Washington Post article last year
I think they are planning to do this again on Sunday Jan 31. and that is why they made the decision release date Feb 1 instead of Jan 31, the date from previous years.
This is just my opinion.
For all I know they may have been planning to repeat that this Sunday (Jan 24) but the weather put an end to that,
In any event, decisions will be out soon. Good Luck to All!!
Oh, SoofDad, that’s a really interesting theory…I would bet you are right!
Oooh! So hard to wait an extra week, though. I had bookmarked this post and another one where @maryversity told us it might be around the 26th… And we find out in an email to the student?
ETA: We got another “bill” from UMDCP with the credit for the app fee, which was weird. I got hopeful about the envelope at first, though. 
UMD will send an email saying that the decision is available, but you have to log into the portal to see it. The email does not say what the decision actually is.
Does anyone have the housing glitch yet?
@reamber could you please elaborate?
@Nrnjersey124 The housing glitch refers to something that happened in prior years. When checking the portal a new section on housing was there for some students. It seems that those students later got acceptances…it was on one of the other discussion threads.
Maryland’s portal has two glitches. The first is just that your application date completion is updated to the current date you log in, so people often misinterpret this as a decision being made on that date.
And, unless the issue has been addressed/corrected, the second glitch is that the day before decisions are released, there are SOME students that will have a housing/dining link that appears in their portal.
When people start to notice that, then it is time to get excited, because (at least for the past four years) decisions come out the next day. Do not be concerned if you see a lot of people post that the link appears in their account and you don’t have one in yours…it is not a definitive indicator of admission, as some students that did not have it did report they were admitted. Here are some old threads discussing it
If I get merit, will it come with the acceptance letter?
In the past, merit scholarships were Not included in the acceptance decisions. Merit scholarship info came out in mid to late February.
My daughter’s online page just says Application Submitted…is that suppose to change to a different wording such as Under Review etc…as it gets closer which some other schools do?
No, don’t thinks so. As I recall for my older daughter it indicated “application submitted” the entire time.
So to be clear… Maryland doesn’t have a certain date that they said the decision would come out? Also is there a certain time they usually release them? Basically what’s the update… Are they coming out tomorrow, Tuesday? Does anyone have a clue haha
@nikeluv i don’t know much, but since admissions and the university has closed for monday and tuesday. i doubt they will release decisions when the admissions office is closed
Where did people see the housing glitch last year? Was it visible on the main screen when you logged in
The housing glitch (actually a housing application form) was visible on the main screen. If I remember correctly, it appeared a day or two before decisions were released
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