UMSON fall 2016 hopefuls ?

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Hello all, I am planning to apply to UMSON in the fall 2016. I haven't seen a thread yet for other hopefuls and potential candidates. So I wanted to start one.

Trust me, the admissions office is not doing this to you on purpose. The decision-making process was changed to involve more collaboration with faculty, the entire student services department, which includes admissions, has been without a director for months, and two very key, high level staff left their jobs right in the middle of the admissions process. It's been a kind of perfect storm. I promise you that the admissions staff would DEARLY have liked to have been done last month. I think you may have seen on this thread that they are working on weekends to try and get caught up. We know very well that the longer this takes, the more likely we are going to lose out on some top candidates who accept other offers. Whether final status changes for all current Committee Ready applicants will be done today is something I have no way of knowing but I can assure you that a mighty effort to accomplish that is underway. May it come to fruition.

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I already started a backup application for spring 2017 in case I'm rejected. The fact the decisions are taking so long that it's halfway to the deadline for the next application pool is disheartening.

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Does this only apply to those waiting on the BSN or for CNL applicants also?

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I just don't get why the lady at admissions replying to emails would give me false information twice? First she told me last week that my app was under review and to check later that week, then this week she said all desicions would be out by Friday...:no:

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I applied for the fall 2016 BSN program.. my decision just changed to "committee ready" and I'm not really sure what that means... or when I will be receiving a letter in the mail, it honestly feels like I've been waiting forever.

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I believe they are still having interview for the CNL ( Not sure about BSN since I didn't apply for that). I will be having an interview for CNL next week.

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hello Grey Lady!

is there any possibility that top candidates may not get offer if the university thought that they will get another offer from other universities?

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What is your definition of a top candidate?

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What is your definition of a top candidate?

[COLOR=#000000]In my opinion, almost perfect GPA and high score on the teastest plus nice recommendation letter ! this is my guess. People told me that since most universitiesmade decisions already and notify their students about it, there is apossibility that top candidates” who applied elsewhere may accept theiroffers. So, if UMD admission thinks that it would be waste of time while givingadmission offer to these students, there might be a possibility that topcandidates” might not get in! I am not sure how much it is true though![/COLOR]

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[COLOR=#000000]In my opinion, almost perfect GPA and high score on the teastest plus nice recommendation letter ! this is my guess. People told me that since most universitiesmade decisions already and notify their students about it, there is apossibility that top candidates” who applied elsewhere may accept theiroffers. So, if UMD admission thinks that it would be waste of time while givingadmission offer to these students, there might be a possibility that topcandidates” might not get in! I am not sure how much it is true though![/COLOR]

No offense but that doesn't make any sense. How would they know who has accepted offers elsewhere or not?

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I don't think the admissions committee would not give offers to top candidates if they were admitted to other schools because there's still a possibility of the candidate accepting their offer (over the other schools)... and I feel like that's against some type of policy or regulation to deny someone an open seat just because they got into other schools. Also, I would think that schools informing other schools if someone got in is kind of a breach of confidentiality, but then again, I'm not entirely sure how the process goes so I'm just basing this on opinion. Grey Lady can probably provide more accurate insight.

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Side note: UMSON has graduation on Friday so I'm guessing they'll be extra busy this week... Not to dampen your hopes of hearing anything soon, but in case we don't hear much from them this week, graduation could be the reason :up:.

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