<p>I grew up in Maryland and honestly wasn't aware of how prestigious it si it easier for was. I want to major in engineering, which is one of their Limited Enrollment Programs. Their website isn't clear on specifics or "direct admission" for these programs. Does anyone know what exactly they mean by LEP? And is it easier to get in to Maryland if you're an instate student with the school as your first choice?</p>
<p>The LEP admissions process is a lot simpler than it may seem. There’s no additional work on your part. Basically, when you apply for admission, they ask for your intended major. Then, everyone goes through the general admissions process when they decide whether or not to let you into Maryland. Then, if you get into Maryland, your application then gets sent over to engineering where they then decide whether or not to accept you into engineering as a freshman applicant. If you’re not directly admitted to engineering when applying but are still accepted to the University, you can still attend, take some of the engineering classes, and then reapply for admission into the engineering program at a later date. They basically just want to keep out the people that arn’t serious about engineering and that they don’t think will succeed in their program, so I haven’t seem many people rejected from the school.
From what I’ve seen, if you want to get into UMD and have a good GPA and SAT scores, you’ll be directly admitted into the Clark school. Honestly, I’ve seen some instate people who I’ve wondered how they got in, so you’ll be fine as long as you want it. And where MD is on your college list doesn’t really make much of a difference in your chances of being accepted or rejected, as long as you still try on the application and are honest and truthful.</p>
<p>IS will always be easier, and now since they are officially stating that they are going from 70% IS to 75% IS, there will be even more room. That being said remember that UMDCP has had an increase of 10% in applicants, which has resulted in them from being @50% acceptance rate to a 39% acceptance rate according to USNWR. So, do not believe it is a given.</p>
<p>As I keep saying, with the economy in the shape it is, many students who would have gone OOS or private, now are looking at the FA and tossing their hat into the ring for financial reasons. We are not fiscally as a country at the place we were even July 08 (Dow was at 12K…folks could afford to sell mutuals, unemployment was hovering in the 5’s, now close to 10) The folks will have a hand in the decision process if it comes down to finances.</p>
<p>If you look at the LEP sites for scholars, gemstone and honors they give a ballpark regarding stats. LEP is a living program, where you are dormed for at least your freshman ye with people in that program. I.E. Centreville is Scholars, Denton/Ellicott is Gemstone. You not only do your regular classes for your major , but you have seminar classes weekly for the program. Gemstone also has a group project.</p>
<p>When you check that box that says you want to play in a group, that is for Gemstone.</p>
<p>Clark is internationally known and ranked by USNWR as #18 in the world.</p>
<p>I agree there are some where you sit there and say how? Yet, unbeknownst to many of us there is some small part of their application that fills a need and they will overlook the stats. Or they have explained them away in the essays.</p>
<p>UMD 20 yrs ago was the safety school for OOS from NJ, look at the acceptance thread from ly and you will see, that the majority had very strong stats. </p>
<p>Goodluck</p>
<p>GO TERPS BEAT THE WAHOOS</p>
<p>so, i don’t think this will really make a difference, but i was just noticing in the last post, someone was talking about LEPs and Living-Learning Programs. Which is really confusing, since Living-Learning Programs do have limited enrollment, but Limited Enrollment Program is a group of i think 14 majors, which have limited admissions (listed at lep.umd.edu) So just in terms of terminology, LEP refers to an academic major/program, while Living-Learning Program refers to the programs mentioned above, like the Honors College, and College Park Scholars, which do have the admissions averages on their websites, and are limited enrollment, but not LEPs. </p>
<p>did that make sense? Just so that it makes the terminology somewhat less confusing.</p>
<p>Thanks all, being IS is reassuring.
@Orchdork, what exactly is a good GPA trying for Maryland? I take a lot of APs and usually pull Bs. Test scores aren’t a problem though.</p>
<p>if you have above 3.5 and good test scores, you might get accepted to the engineering school as freshman. However, it’s not a guarantee. Even if you don’t get into the engineernig school as a freshman, you can still get in after 1 or 2 semester of completing the basic requirements and maintaining a 3.0 GPA.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree with Mollterp…DS is a freshman in the Architecture Limited Enrollment Program and he lives in a regular freshman dorm.</p>
<p>about how many people are accepted to lep?</p>
<p>Depends on the program. Architecture took 120 last year, but it’s one of the smaller programs. I’m sure engineering and Smith are bigger.</p>
<p>Just to add to Centh: I got into the Gov and Pol LEP. If you tried for that one, I think it’s a pretty sizable group that gets in.</p>
<p>hmmm how much for chemical and life sciences?</p>