u/Apprehensive-Cry2505

Didn't get it, but have learned it really doesn't matter much, although I would've liked the better dorms.

Anyways most of the people ik who did get in are genuine bums. One of them did 3 internships over junior summer, faked all his hours, only knows how to vibecode, and lied about his position and when he started at one of his companies (ik cuz i worked there too).

Some other guy ik has like 300 absences and spends more time looking at himself in the bathroom than going to class.

There's some light tho cuz there's another guy IK who's smart asf and nice and definitely deserved it.

Oh, and there's another guy who turned down umd cuz he got into brown who lied about being gay on his applications.

Also, I saw a tiktok of this girl "setting up" her room in pyon chen but it was just her dancing in the corner while her older mom did everything for 2 hours which was eh
so 4/5 umd, ik HC prolly has alotta smart kids but lock in

Now that I think abt it, what can UMD even do? At the end of the day, they have to believe every lie on the application unless it's pretty obvious. Shout out to UMD for going 1/5 in this day and age.

"Oh, you have plans in an hour? Why didn't you tell us 5 hours ago? You can't go even though you have a free schedule."

Whenever I try and make plans with friends I have to deal with my phone getting taken away a few times a day so theres times I just can't communicate with them, so half the time whenever I get my phone back I find out they already left and came back.

I'm only allowed to go on runs 3 times during the week around my house and I need approval each time.

Whenever I want to god forbid play basketball during the week it ALWAYS turns into a big fight of not prioritizing my grades (I HAVE A 4.8 WGPA) and the stupid "you're not allowed to have fun during the school week." Eventually, IDK what goes through their minds, but if I get on my knees and beg them enough and promise them I'll do all the schoolwork I'd do anyway, they let me go for 1 hour max, or they personally come and embarrass me.

At the big age of 18, I'm not allowed to drive anywhere with my license. When I got my permit, they didn't let me practice because no one else was practicing yet (I'm a few months older than most ppl in my grade). When I got my license, they said I wasn't allowed to drive alone until I had doubled my hours accompanied. After that, I wasn't allowed to drive alone until I was a senior in high school. After that, I wasn't allowed to drive because they said so and they don't trust me. They treat me like a child when it suits them, but oh no, I'm an adult when it benefits them, like when I WORK, when I CLEAN, and when I COOK.

Obviously, I have the strictest phone rules in the 10 mile radius, too. I still have to turn my phone in to them before I go to sleep. Sometimes, when we get home, just cuz they feel like it, I have to give my phone to them so they won't lock me out of the house. I'm not allowed to have my phone if theress an assignment due. (Not missing, I mean DUE. This means if a teacher publishes a project due in 2 weeks, my phone is taken away until I submit it, so they have NO trust in my time management and not having my phone for a few assignments makes them take WAY TOO LONG)

Privacy? What's that. It's been 3 years since my door got taken off. Initially they said it would be off for a semester, which then turned into a year, then when you're 18, and now when I leave for college. Everytime I turn in my phone I close all my apps, and when I get it back, my email, msgs, social media, is all open. Actually recently they must've started closing the apps after they looked at them, and I know they still look at them cuz I looked at my dads phone and he had google translate open for a message I sent someone (I hate them).

Honestly there's alot more I can say but I'm pretty happy I got some of this off my chest. I can't wait for college to start!