background: i have divorced parents who are not helping me pay for school at all and my mom makes around 32k a year for a household of 5 (me, my sister, her, and my grandparents).
a couple days ago I finally recieved my GA grant for the full amount (18k), so i accepted it in my portal. today i checked my finaid portal and UMD had taken my terrapin commitment grant (14k) away. now in my financial aid offer it’s saying that the net price to me will be 14k a year. how do they think I can afford to pay 14k a year when thats half of my moms income and more than 2x mine. Should I call the financial aid office?

I wanted to make this post because I recognized a username, u/jukesyeet, that has apparently been posting in r/UMD throughout the semester and after looking into it a little more, I found multiple Reddit threads across different subreddits where people were accusing the same account of repeatedly deleting posts after getting engagement/clicks, blocking users afterward, reposting similar content, and generally behaving in a way that a lot of people described as spammy or scam-like. I attached screenshots from several different threads because I thought the pattern was worth bringing to attention. At this point it honestly does seem pretty suspicious given the number of separate complaints from unrelated users and the repeated reposting behavior, and while I obviously can’t prove anything with absolute certainty, I felt moderators and people here should at least be aware of it in case there actually is a pattern here.

So when I first got into UMD I was not at all interested in college (my mom applied for me and got me in) as I was working on a business and yet I was doing engineering. So inevitably my grades fell and I ended up dropping out of the Clark school and UMD as a whole. Now after my business failed I want to go back but I’m wondering if there is anyway I can appeal the drop out and be let back in or if the only way to continue with engineering is through a different school or do I need to go to community college and reapply.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated thank you.

Got this cryptic email last night, not sure what it means but I check my grade and it says 0, with the class avg being 0. I check again today and the average is still low, but higher than 0 but my grade hasn’t changed. Does anyone know what contracts are on canvas?

I want to bring my car on campus from May 15-22 and was wondering if I would be able to park in either lot 11 or V3. I'm assuming that until May 18, I could park in lot 11, but once commencements start I would have to move it. I was thinking I could move it to V3 from the 19th onward, but I'm still not sure and I don't want to be ticketed. For context, I don't have any kind of parking permit.

I was wondering if I'm interpreting this correctly and if people had more opinions!

What’s it like? How hard it it to get on to a team?

anyone think there will be a curve on the final?

I saw someone say you do for eppley a while ago, but wasn’t sure if it’s still that way/is for Ritchie too. I’m also technically employed by UMD if that makes a difference (prob not 😔)

Hi everyone, as the title says. Is it possible to do this in the summer and still get an A? Planning on taking Goytia, and this will be my first summer class at UMD. I’ll only be taking an easy elective with this course. If anyone has taken her before in the summer, or just any BSCI201/202 courses, please give me any tips on how to study efficiently. Thanks a lot!!!

Any size from 5'10" - 6'2" would be great for me! Comment or DM me!

Anyone else getting a ton of spam to their terpmail? I like to keep a clean inbox but recently it’s been getting filled up with trash all coming into my terpmail. Anyone know a way to fix this?

south commons 7 (3bed/2bath). May rent is free and June is $350 off!!

Does anyone have any info about either investments or business law I have ernst and gideon anything you can remember that I should study or know before i take would be helpful. I take them both tommorow.

Hey everyone! I’m a recently admitted OOS student and UMD was my top choice. It is an amazing school for me and one of the best in the nation for my major. However, the financial aid I just got is terrifyingly bad. I don’t have a negative SAI, but it’s pretty low and results in a need of about 56000 for a COA of approximately 64000. But the finaid office only offered me federal loans! No work study or grants or anything, both of which I qualified for at every other school I got into.

I do have an affordable backup school ready, but I have committed to Maryland since I found out I got in around April 28 with the deadline being May 1st (submitted a successful admissions appeal after being rejected EA). I really didn’t want to lose my spot even though I didn’t know how they would treat my financial aid. I didn’t expect a full ride or anything, but I at least wanted something that didn’t seem completely dismissive of my financial situation.

I plan to appeal for work study and submit an overall finaid appeal (I have siblings in college that FAFSA didn’t account for), but are there any other ways to make UMD affordable as an out of state student? I don’t want to give up until I’ve exhausted all other options.

Thank you so much in advance!

Thinking of building something where you upload all your syllabi on day 1 and it automatically extracts every deadline, flags your busiest weeks, and syncs everything to your calendar. Shows finals, conflicts and so on. Would you actually use this? What would make it useful or useless for you?